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The View from Down Here
The musings of an Aussie seeing the world from waist high.... from a wheelchair
Month: November, 2009
A SAD state of affairs
It seems flaky to admit it, but the weather is screwing with my mood. I didn’t think I was ever going to admit to anything like Seasonal Affected Disorder. However the weather here in Sydney lately has been so crazy and humid like I think I have to.
I recognise though that SAD and other similar [...]
Go Home On Time Day
Go Home On Time Day. — a good idea
the great dichotomy
Feminist Scribbler makes some very familiar points in her post about managing the often dichotomous reactions to disability from those closest to us.
I will expand on this post in the next few days.
a big blue line going up
It started with early morning garbage collection this time without swearing or very loud male gossip. From bed with the laptop on the floor I checked my BlogTracker stats. I got a huge pleasant surprise: my stats and hits had gone up quite markably. This as a result of FWD/Forward picking up this post on [...]
intergrated blogging
I have incorporated 3 lonely stranded blog posts from a half started typepad blog here. These are from a long time ago Dec 06-Jan 07 but I thought they were worth bringing into the fold. Apart from a comment I added to one entry regarding a missing immaterial photo I made no edits (though I [...]
tweet tweet
i used twitter yesterday much like I think it was intended, or at least a very handy way of using it to broadcast a problem PB was having with Vodafone (the Australian phone company) and his iPhone. It wasn’t solved through the tweeting but the up to the minute information was shared and further broadcasted. [...]
100 posts.
In September 2005, while traveling I started this blog. That was a long time ago in both time and headspace.
I have had many hiatuses from this medium, hence the four years to get here. I have had a variety of topics, many self serving muses. But I’m still here and I enjoy it.
The choice of [...]
Austen thoughts
I’m sitting up in bed swimming pleasently in 19th century british literature.
Jane Austen has long been a favourite of mine, both in the elegant video productions and in the books, at least those I have read, largely Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. I have recently bought Persuasion following watching the recent movie “The [...]
what might my MacBook say …..
this brief piece is based on a writing exercise based on getting a “Dear John” letter from my favourite piece of furniture. On the website it came from various writers penned letters from sofas and armchairs, scales, toilets and even an electric wheelchair.
Here’s my very drafty initial attempt
Dear Joanna,
Well I’ve had enough. So I’m [...]
