Going bush

We decided to go for a bit of a bushwalk with Hayden. I never realised there was some bushwalks around Mt Coot-Tha. All these years I've lived here, and I've only really gone to the top where the main lookout and Summit restaurant etc is.

Hayden absolutely loved it. Constantly looking around. So much to see, and he particularly liked the bounces as we walked down steps.

Nursery Rhyme Violence

Imagine sitting down to read a nursery rhyme to your baby to help him sleep, not really knowing the words to even the common rhymes, and reading half way through one about beating dogs, biting pigs, killing oxes, hanging butchers and so on. I've quoted below the nursery rhyme. It's called "The Old Woman and her Pig", and it's from the very innocent-looking "Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes" book containing all the classics. I've quoted the whole thing after the jump.

Don't get me wrong. I'm no prude, and I know for the little ones it's probably more about the sound of my voice rather than the content. He doesn't understand what's actually being said. I know that.

Still, makes you wonder. People criticise today's video games, movies etc. Yet generation after generation has been reciting these words to their newborns for centuries. Political correctness? Meh.

Blog relocated

I've relocated my blog to Google's http://blogspot.com. Just finding I have less and less time to hand-code my own website, so am taking the easy way out in the interests of writing/posting more and coding less.

I started copying over articles from the previous one, but decided it's probably not necessary anyway. I'll copy some of the more important ones I guess, when I get the time.

Let me know if you have any comments or feedback on the layout and content.