rachel.blog

insignificant ramblings of a 50-something woman

  • A few photos

    Some pics: Dressups Pee-Nang on Mount Victoria Ben and Daniel on Mount Eden

  • Not fat…

    Daniel: You’re fat ElizabethElizabeth: I not fat, I bewtiful!

  • Elizabeth

    Gosh I’ve been so slack with my blog recently! I’m so sorry. Things are just all go here. Today I caught Elizabeth using a bic glue stick like it was a roll-on deodorant and applying it to her armpits. Elizabeth has a new favourite book – a pink, tizzy thing: We bought Elizabeth some underpants…

  • Our two little Aussies

    I have created my own shop on etsy, viewable here – http://www.etsy.com/shop/fattylama There’s a cute photo of Elizabeth modelling one of my hair clips. My life has suddenly become so easy now that Daniel is at school. He was a challenging kid. He’s matured and become easier with time but Elizabeth is so easy compared with…

  • Daniel’s girlfriends

    Daniel plays with two little Korean girls every day at school. According to his teacher, they adore him. The other day Daniel’s teacher said they were both sitting next to him at lunch, but so close to him that they were practically sitting on him. She told the girls to give him a bit of…

  • Crazy about crochet

    A second crochet Barbie dress. This is the Marilyn Monroe outfit: Someone suggested I make a tea cosy. Here ’tis: How much should I sell it for?

  • Zeki’s grave and photos

    We buried Zeki in our back yard and planted a fern on the grave. Daniel helped us and was very interested in the process.   He does not seem bothered by the fact Zeki is gone and never coming back. Zeki’s grave I thought I’d take the opportunity to post some photos of our garden…

  • Goodbye, Zeki

    Zeki is dead. We took him to the vet this afternoon and had him put to sleep. We had been thinking about it for a while but the final straw was him biting both Elizabeth and Ben yesterday. The wounds are minor but I would rather write about his finer moments and make this an…

  • Lest we forget…

    It was announced this week that the Christchurch Cathedral, which was badly damaged in the February 22nd earthquake, is to be demolished. My view on the matter is to adopt Joe Bennett’s suggestion which is to leave the cathedral in ruins to commemorate the earthquake itself. I like this idea for two reasons. I know…

  • Pooth and fiction

    Today at Daniel’s school, all the kids were sitting together and someone noticed one of the girls was missing. “Where’s Charlotte”, they said. Daniel said, “She might be doing a big poo. Daddy takes ages when he does a poo, especially when it’s bed time”.  The strange thing is, it’s not true at all. Daniel,…

  • Lies, damned lies and statistics

    My mathematician husband often likes to use mathematics against me. For instance, he often says things like: I’m much more likely to die in a car crash than an earthquake or volcanic eruption. So what are the statistics? According to the Auckland Regional Council civil defence management page, there’s a 5% chance over any 50…

  • Dressups

    Elizabeth loves dressing up.

  • BBQ in a hurry

    I got a little stressed this morning. We had friends coming over for a BBQ lunch today and in our usual disorganised fashion, only went and bought a BBQ from Bunnings this morning. The BBQ required some simple assembly and in a frantic panic I shoved screws and bolts together as fast as I could…

  • One year on

    We were interviewed by a journalist from The Herald this week and there’s a photo of us in the paper today: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/christchurch-earthquake/news/article.cfm?c_id=1502981&objectid=10787401 He was here for an hour talking to us and it’s funny seeing which bits he chose to put into the article. He described me as “permanently jittery”, ha, ha. I wouldn’t describe…

  • February 22nd, 2011

    Tomorrow is the 22nd of February, 2012. This marks the one-year anniversary of the Christchurch earthquake that killed more than 180 people.  I don’t want to give a definitive number for the number of people who died in this earthquake because there are some who believe the number to be higher than the official figure…

  • Seeya!

    I was struggling to convince Elizabeth it was time to leave the shopping mall on Saturday afternoon. She was happily playing on one of those coin operated machines. So I tried a bit of reverse psychology and said “goodbye” then proceeded to walk away. I was just about to go through the automatic doors to…

  • Should Christchurch be moved?

    I was pretty shocked to read in the news this morning that 48% of people outside Christchurch believe the city should be moved. If that’s true, then the number of people who believe Wellington should be moved ought to be higher. A quake in Wellington will be much larger, more destructive and more lethal to…

  • Conversations with Daniel

    I am doing a short course this weekend which runs from 9 till 4 so Ben has had been entertaining the children. Yesterday he took them to the museum and when he pulled up outside to park, Daniel said, “You found it, Daddy. Well done.” The man inside the museum dispensing tickets was bald and…

  • Zeki and Daniel updates and more

    I have been unable to test Zeki’s blood glucose for a little while because I ran out of test strips and the local pharmacy was going to charge over $60 for a pack of 50 strips which is obscene. Of course if I was a diabetic I’d be able to get them cheaply on prescription…

  • Managing a dog with diabetes

    The vet suggested I buy a glucometer to test Zeki’s blood sugar myself, at home. So we did and it has been a bit of a learning curve getting a reading from Zeki. The vet nurse was pricking the pads on his paw for a blood sample but when I tried it at home I…