Silent Sunday
Wordless Wednesday
Sunday Slackers
Genes: Family lookalikes through the ages
Environment: Children’s playgrounds to make you wish you were 10 again.
Learning: How to grow smarter
Wordless Wednesday
My Mind is Free
I remove the scrunched up hair band from its hiding place. In all this time they’d never found it and it is now my only link back to my family.
I’d been taken, ripped away from Shona as I was plaiting her hair. My six year old sister’s screams keep me awake at night but her hairband keeps me grounded. Reminds me who I am and that Shona is waiting for me.
I decide that this is the day I begin my journey home. They will come soon but just one will be left. I’d loosened a bar in the bedstead and the lengths of rags I’ve been saving are tied together. I know their pattern. They will wait out back, dragging on those repulsive cigarettes. But the passage will be empty.
I slip the band around my wrist.
The lock clicks.
Silent Sunday
Extreme sleeping and how to avoid it
“I gave my dentist a heart attack the other day. It was only a check up, he hadn’t given me any anaesthetic or anything but you know me, I nodded off while he was checking things out …”
So said my Dad, inducing major hysterics over a cup of Saturday afternoon tea recently (not quite as much as the seat belts episode, but that’s for another time) as he recalled the poor dentist shaking him awake, yelling: ”Mr Nolan, Mr Nolan … oh” *palpable relief*
Wordless Wednesday
Cardboard Piano
Is The Ashes becoming predictable?
That’s a headline I spied when browsing for the updated score yesterday – with the sub heading along the lines of there “only being one away win in the last ten years”.
I didn’t read the whole article because a) the content may not have lived up to the click bait headline or b) it may have wound me up and c) It may have influenced what I’m about to write and d) I was watching my son’s match and shouldn’t have been on my phone anyway …
So I just threw it out there to the scorer next to me, and a couple of the other mums nearby.
International dancers to take global stage with first ever live streaming
Silver Medallist Chelsea Andrejic_Genee 2008_Photo Christopher Wahl
For the first time in its 84-year history, the Genée International Ballet Competition Final will be live streamed online, allowing the dancers of tomorrow to take their debut steps on an international stage with an enlarged global audience of dance lovers and professionals in virtual attendance. Past Genée medallists, such as Leanne Benjamin or Xander Parish, have gone on to work for some of the best ballet companies around the world.
Jaye Nolan 