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Posts from ‘December, 2007’

Fiji: Plantation Island

Of course, the second part of our Fiji holiday was on Plantation Island.
We were picked up by coach from the Naviti and taken to Port Denerau via a stop at a supermarket in Nadi for some Snugglers and drinking water. Denerau has gated estate-style housing as well as the major hotel chains. Apparently alot of [...]

A Very Etsy Christmas

I’ve participated in a couple of Secret Santa draws this year. I’ve received one already and I think almost half the participants gifted their santees via Etsy. It’s useful for when your secret santa peers are scattered around the world. This gorgeous little gift is what came for me yesterday.

It’s a little pack of office [...]

Brought to you by the letter ‘why?’

It’s a time of developmental milestones. Since last Thursday Fraser has asked me ‘why?’ several times a day. Lincoln is sitting unassisted for quite a while now before he topples, and today he was rocking on the hands and knees. Crawling must be close. He’s doing alot of talking ‘errrrrr’, ‘arrr’ and is quite [...]

Fiji: The Naviti

I’ve had some image editor woes since upgrading to Leopard on my powerbook. I was using an ancient Photoshop Elements which spat the dummy. I tried to install Gimp – no dice. So I’m using a combination of Flickr editing and Tabblo to create my photo collages. That explains the delay in posting about Fiji. [...]

Solid!

We’ve been back for a week now and as soon as we got home I started Lincoln on proper solids. His first meal was potato mixed with rice cereal. Since then, he’s had more potato, pear, carrot, banana, pumpkin, and creamed corn. He really enjoys it – especially pumpkin, so he’s already up to three [...]