Part of the inspiration for starting this blog was the pleasure I got from reading other mothers (and david here) writing about the highs and lows of parenting. I really like reading about what other people ate for dinner, watched on television and sanctioned their badly behaved children.
However, one trend I don't intend to partake in is to make you read the story of my daughter's birth on her 13th birthday. It's not that I don't find pregnancy and childbirth interesting but I am not emotionally centred on the experience these days. Interesting contrast, since being a midwife is still an occupation I day dream about. Suffice to say she was born at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford after a short labour on the 3oth November 1992. I didn't get the drugs, my sister was there and I read John Buchan's "John McNab" in the morning before I went into labour and finished it the next morning with my new baby sleeping beside me.
I so love John Buchan and Greenmantle and the 39 Steps are books that I constantly re-read. In fact, I think I'll have a Buchan-fest in honour of her birthday.
She got an iBook as a combined birthday, christmas, next several years present. It is at her dad's so she won't touch it till the weekend but he sent her a photo of it this morning complete with "happy birthday" displayed on the screen. It looks so cool. She is now dismissive of my little black lap top which is nowhere as groovy as her machine.
Tonight we are going for a hearty Austrian dinner with her little sis and big brother and his girlfriend. Absolutely suits the weather which is still very rainy.
Thank you again for the compliments but I think you were at this before I was and the inspiration was generally flowing in a northerly direction. But please also feel inspired to play the new internet game that's all the rage and lend a bit of cinematic immortality to a Sydney suburb. Given the Australian preoccupation with masculinity, I've always though that Manly is a wonderful place name. Somehow I envision Mel Gibson in a cross between "The Man from Snowy River" and "La cage aux folles". Three lines is quite enough.
Posted by: David | Friday, 02 December 2005 at 02:21 AM
David, I'm loving this game but am so overwhelmed with the magnificence of ganching's entry that i am fearful of missing the benchmark. I will try for sthg this weekend.
Posted by: anyresemblance | Friday, 02 December 2005 at 09:50 AM
13! Excellent. Congratulations and good luck.
Cody turned 13 in July, and he always has his nose buried in his iBook. He, too, is dismissive of my clunky old Compaq laptop. O, youth!
Posted by: Lisa B-K | Sunday, 04 December 2005 at 04:36 PM