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So what’s there to do in Sydney?

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I’m going to be in Sydney in two weeks time – yee hah! I’ll be busy at the Web Directions conference for two days but will have Saturday all to myself. I’m staying near Darling Harbour so will undoubtedly do some touristy things but I’m wondering what else there is to do and/or see.

I like shopping, and because I’ll be somewhere other than Adelaide will be looking for the types of things that can’t be found in Adelaide. Last time I was in Sydney I went to the Glebe markets, so are there any other types of cool markets that I should know about?

Are there any other Sydney things to do that aren’t in touristy websites? I’d love word of mouth recommendations please.

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No more kisses for me?

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This morning I dropped JJ off at school. When we say goodbye we have a huggle and I try to remember to tell him that I’ll pick him up at after school care, or I’ll be at school to pick him up when classes have finished. I remembered to do that this morning.

As we finished our huggle (it’s a cross between a cuddle and a hug) he said, ‘I suppose this is where we have a kiss.’

I said, ‘Yes, of course,’ as we puckered up to kiss each other goodbye.

He’s never ever said this before and while he wasn’t reluctant to kiss me, as I walked off to catch my tram I thought that it probably won’t be too long before he doesn’t want me to kiss him in the school yard any more.

I know it’s a part of growing up, but I’m really going to miss those goodbye kisses. Mind you, I will sneak them in whenever I can. How could you not kiss these lips?

When I was growing up I used to go and kiss my parents good night every night. I even – unknowingly – asked my dad’s cousin to come and give me a kiss one night as he walked in the back door of our house. I was in my room and thought it was dad and was mortified when I realised it was not. But around the time I hit puberty I walked into the lounge room one night and announced to my parents that I was getting too old for kissing them good night and never did it again. I do kiss them hallo and goodbye when I see them now as I don’t see them that often. Dad turns his head away acting all embarrassed but I do it anyway.

Do your kids still kiss you goodbye? If they don’t how old were they when they stopped?

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Carnival of Australia 12 September 2007

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G’day from your hostess of the September 12, 2007 edition of Carnival of Australia. Below are the submissions to this carnival with all sorts of categories, including the walkabout (miscellaneous) one at the end.

So, crack open a coldie, put your feet up and get reading.

Baby emus

Animals

GrrlScientist presents Pretty Boys Have All the Chicks posted at Living the Scientific Life, saying, “Another lovely Australian bird species, the splendid fairy-wren, helps scientists answer a basic question about the nature of evolution.”

Culture

Dr Martin W. Russell presents “Law of Attraction” Is Good? posted at Dr Martin W. Russell.

Sunrise at Vivonne Bay

Bryce presents Ratatouille posted at a strangled duck, saying, “A review of the movie ‘Ratatouille'”

Jen presents Safari suits down the generations posted at safari suit.

John Lampard presents Ignition posted at disassociated.com.

Current Affairs

Megt presents Social News Aggregation in Australia posted at Dipping into the Blogpond, saying, “An overview of Australia’s social news bookmarking / aggregating sites, which will allow Aussies to find, share and vote on local news. Confer, Kwoff, Bloggerati, Redruby, flyblown, Ausculture.com, PerthNorg and too right are profiled.”

Jen presents Chaser APEC stunt arrest posted at Semantically driven.

Roger presents APEC – 7 000+ take to Sydney streets – some pics posted at typing is not activism…., saying, “Just a bunch of fresh photos i took that hopefully capture some of the main messages on the day.”

Kirky presents Stomp out Child Abuse! posted at Kirkys Krafts & Chit Chat, saying, “Child Abuse is not just a Black Australian issues. Black and White Australian, it is time to stomp our feet and demand appropriate action to protect our kids.”

Flametree presents People, Police, Paths, Protests, Pictures posted at Cut the Bullshit, saying, “No swearing, I swear!”

Family

Veronica presents Life as a SAHM posted at Sleepless Nights.

Megan Bayliss presents WIN Science Toys for Christmas posted at Imaginif…, saying, “We Aussies invented the black box, the rubber glove and the inoculation for cervical cancer. A scientific lot, get your name in now to enter the draw for two children’s science kits.”

Helping a mate

Jeanette presents Teens and Safe Drinking posted at Imaginif…, saying, “From an Aussie now living in the UK – seems like beer drinking teenagers are everywhere. Will you help watch their backs? This could be your kid, or my kid.”

History

Geoff Foster presents How used we can get to luxuries! posted at Cockeyed Optimist, saying, “My first submission to a carnival”

Sport

edithyeung presents A Scuba Diver Who is Afraid of Water posted at Edith Yeung.Com: Dream. Think. Act..

Technology

Bryce presents Happy 3 month anniversary! posted at a strangled duck, saying, “I can’t believe my blog’s lasted three months!”

Andrew Boyd presents Following the dofollowers posted at On Blogging Australia.

Suzie Cheel presents How Many Connections Does Your Blog Have? posted at The Abundance Highway, saying, “A great new tool that you can use to see who and how each post is connected”

Farm land

Travel

Colin Campbell presents I’ve Been Everywhere (Well a few places) posted at Adelaide Green Porridge Cafe, saying, “Some of the places I have been (and not been).”

Walkabout

Janette Toral presents 110 Blogs and Adelaide Weekend posted at Discovering Australia.

Jarrett Walker presents a run in the woods posted at Creature of the Shade, saying, “Why isn’t there a “nature” or “wilderness” category?”

Micellaneous Mum presents Blogging – redefining friendship in the 2.0 age posted at Miscellanous Adventures of an Aussie Mum,
saying, “I know this post has appeared a bit around the track this
week, but I am interested to hear on what Australian women have to say
about blogging friendships, because I think (and I may be wrong) that
blogging as community driven/inspired/nurturing still has to come a bit
of a way here yet.”

Albert Foong presents 5 weeks to developing the magic of visualisation posted at Urban Monk,
saying, “Visualization is a powerful tool for many areas of your
personal growth. It trains your mind and your body. However, it is not
as easy as many think it is, and there isn’t much proper information
available. Even if we can do it, the question is – how do we best apply
it?”

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of Carnival of Australia

using our

carnival submission form.

Past posts and future hosts can be found on our

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The dinosaurs have taken over

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Dinosaur on shower

I had a couple of friends over for dinner the other night.

During the course of the evening one of them went to the bathroom and I could hear him whistling in there. He was taking a while so I thought he must be doing some serious business.

I didn’t think any more of it until I went into the bathroom and found all of JJ’s plastic dinosaurs he uses in the bath, all over the bathroom.

Dinosaur on heater

I’ve included two pictures here, but the critters were everywhere.

This is on top of the lemon that was left in JJ’s bed recently by another friend.

I think I must have some strange friends, but I like that.

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Monty’s lookalike – Poppers from England

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One of my readers, Hazel from England, has sent me a couple of photos of her dog Poppers who could be Monty’s clone.

I opened up the images, said to JJ, who does this remind you of, and he straight away said – Monty. I’d thought it too.

Pictures speak a thousand words, so here they are.

Poppers

Poppers21

And here’s Monty.

Content Monty

So apart from Monty’s white front and a slightly more rounded head they could be twins. How spooky.

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Web Directions South Mikons and meetup

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As I’ve mentioned previously work gave me the go-ahead to attend Web Directions South conference in Sydney at the end of September.

Babysitting is pretty much finalised. Dogsitting not organised yet. Conference registration paid for, flights and hotel booked.

In an effort to break the ice amongst conference goers Mikons have been created and 35 winners chosen. Mikons are little icons in the form of stickers you can put on your name badges so other conference goers get an immediate idea of what your interests are, eg Mac or Linux, Vegetarian or meat eater, tea or coffee drinker etc etc.

I designed one because I could see a great big glaring hole for the new attendees at the conference like I will be. When I say I designed one, I used one of the cartoons available on the Mikons site and added one word to it. But it was selected and immortalised as one that will go on the sticker sheet for all conference attendees. It’s the one shown in the t-shirt below. I even get a t-shirt out of it.

Mikons

So this is one sticker that I will be putting on my name badge for the conference and I’ll hopefully see some others using it too.

To meet some other conference goers before the conference I hope to get along to the Port80 meetup the night before. I’ll be the one with the red rose in my buttonhole if I can find the way from my hotel to the meetup place. No I won’t really be wearing a red rose in my buttonhole.

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