"It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself."JM
The Waifs; Dixie Chicks; Green Day; The Whitlams; Indigo Girls; Sarah Mclachlan; Cream; Dave Brubeck; J.S. Bach; Celtic Woman; Enya; Kate Rusby; Burl Ives; Missy Higgins; Casey Chambers; Tom T Hall; David Helfgott; Deborah Conway; Simon and Garfunkel; and Connie Nielsen!!!
Movies
Err - haven't seen many lately....
The Cars Movie
Finding Nemo
Note to self - must get out of the house more and see a movie with something other than a G rating....
Television
Dr Who; Torchwood; Jam and Jerusalem; The Vicar of Dibley; Grand Designs; Life on Mars; Choir of Hard Knocks; Doc Martin; Black Adder
Books
Too many to name, but the current authors on my nightstand include: Richard Flannagan; Tim Winton; Michael Connelly; Ilsa Evans; Tim Flannery; Dr Karl; J.K.Rowling; Nick Earls; Ben Elton; Douglas Adams...
Children's authors I like include: Mem Fox; Roald Dahl; Eric Carle; Morris Gleitzman; Astrid Lindgren; Paul Jennings; Eva Ibbotson; Giles Andreae; Cresida Cowell; Lauren Child; Pamella Allen; C.S. Lewis.
I love Julie Vivas Illustrations (e.g. Possum Magic) and Jeannie Baker's collages (e.g. Rosie Dock)
I don't like Enid Blyton (spare me from reading The Faraway Tree again ... please!) I don't like fluffy romance novels.
Heroes
Doctors; Paramedics; Teachers; Carers; Salvos; SES; Fire Brigade; Scientists; Engineers; Farmers; Kids; Fathers; Mothers ... definitely mothers ... especially my Mum!
Amanda's Details
Status:
Married
Here for:
Friends
Zodiac Sign:
Aries
Children:
Proud parent
Education:
Post grad
Occupation:
Mother
Amanda could teach the Qld Education system a thing or two about COMMUNICATION Posted at 7:08 AM Dec 11, 2008 view more
What is Amanda Like?
....I hear you ask (well you didn't, but I wrote this in my other blog and its sort of descriptive of me ... well the top layers of me anyway).
I like Australian native plants for starters.
I have a PhD in botany which involved growing native rainforest trees in plantations and measuring them periodically with a machine that goes "ping". Short story - there are some great opportunities to grow native rainforest timbers in Australia, but we need to use different management practices than we do for growing conifers.
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But even aside from that, I just love Australian native plants. I'm not a stickler for only planting local natives in our garden though - I think species distributions are not set in stone, and indeed will shift with changing regional climate. Who's to say where the range of a particular species will be in 100 years? For example, I love the flora of Western Australia (especially Corymbia species as you may have guessed) and have planted them in my garden here in Queensland ..... they are doing magnificently on their grafted rootstock.
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I work part time. Presently I'm coordinating a bunch of academics as they put togeher collaborative projects on things related to environmental issues.
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I'm a Mum to two preschool-aged children. I love being a Mum. Its the most demanding job I've ever had (and for those of you rolling their eyes, I've had paid jobs that were quite demanding .... but nothing compared to being the person responsible for the health and well-being for two other people 24 hours a day, 7 days a week!). It can be incredibly boring at times, then incredibly scary, or fun, or frustrating, or tiring, or fantastic the next: it can also be incredibly rewarding. I breastfed both my kids: I'm quite passionate about encouraging and supporting other mothers to breastfeed their children.
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I love children's literature. *I* have a large collection of children's books (I just tell people that the books are for the kids). I also have a good collection of novels, poetry and reference books. An eclectic mix of genre's contemporary Australian to crime and action / adventure books ... but *no* romance ... I Just Can't Stand Fluffy Romance Books.
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I'm also a craft-tragic. I bead, I paint, I crochet, I cross-stitch. I like making things.
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Oh, and while I apparently have a high IQ (whatever that really says about me) I get confused on spelling a lot ... and to make matters worse, my fingers are dyslexic and can't get letters in the right order most of the time. ...and my spell-checker in outlook seems to be stuck on French so there's not a lot of hope for any reader if they can't do the odd anagram and work out the mixed-up words!
I also am one of the few technology-hating nerds you could find on the internet.. well nerds under the age of about 60 that is. I hate computers. I hate gizmos. I use technology out of necessity and if its not working like it says on the box, I'm lost as I refuse to read the destructions unless its absolutely necessary. Luckily I married an engineer who can fix anything with moving parts (and many others with no moving parts) so that gets me out of a lot of trouble.
I'm also a Christian ... not that I get to Church much. Mixing Science, Evolution and Christianity seems completely normal to me but a lot of people seem to think the combination strange. Given that symbolism holds a lot more meaning to me than literal translations of the Bible, its rather straight forward in my head so I don't know what all the fuss is about.
Talented singer/songwriter from maryborough in Qld
Who I'd like to meet: In no particular order and for no other reason than that they are interesting people:
Dr Karl Kruszelnicki; Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall; Tim Flannery; David Attenborough; Mem Fox; Roald Dahl (nobody said they had to be still alive, besides I'm a big believer in afterlife); my paternal grandfather (again - in the afterlife); online friends ...
"In addition to strep throat, certain Streptococcus species are responsible for many cases of meningitis, bacterial pneumonia, endocarditis, erysipelas and necrotizing fasciitis (the 'flesh-eating' bacterial infections). "However, many streptococcal species are non-pathogenic. Streptococci are also part of the normal commensal flora of the mouth, skin, intestine, and upper respiratory tract of humans." - From Wiki.
Hope they pick the right strain for the yoghurt........
well, his issue is that he doesn't even try most of the time. just spends the lesson splashing and being a bit odd. son2 is almost at the same level and he has only been doing it a few weeks. son1's teacher is great, though. special needs trained and very patient.
I've breastfed in "parents rooms" when I've had to - soon fed until he was 2.5 years old and he was too easily distractable at around 10 months -2 years
