Learning Lightroom

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Instead of working on the blog post I intended to write today, I have spent the past few hours messing around with my new copy of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. I’m trying to get a grip on my photo file management because I have been using iPhoto and I find that everything is scattered across random [...]

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll at Belvoir

1950s dress similar to the ones Olive wore

One of the hallmarks of great theatre – or any art – is how strong an impression it makes. A good play will be enjoyable to watch but a great play is more than just an evening’s entertainment. The difference is not always clear during the actual performance but if my mind keeps dwelling on [...]

Silhouettes and shadows in the morning sun

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I’ve been playing around with tonal range in black and white for my photography course. We get the morning sun now that our windows are fixed – and that makes for some nice silhouettes on the glossy white cupboard doors. I had fun taking these photos! This is day five of NaBloPoMo. I will be posting [...]

David Austin roses at Carriageworks

Jug of David Austin roses

Some Saturday mornings, I leave the babies at home with my husband and I head out to Eveleigh Farmers’ Market at Carriageworks in Redfern. It is hard to buy organic food in Sydney and going to a growers’ market is one of the few ways to do it. I will usually have breakfast there and [...]

Twins’ adventures in eating

Edward eating pumpkin

The twins have started eating real food this past week. So far we have had rice cereal, puréed apple and puréed pumpkin. I have tried a couple of commercial purees and I have also cooked and puréed some organic apple myself. It’s so funny watching their expressions as they screw up their little faces to [...]

How travel prepared me for motherhood

Bathing Poppy by the fire

There have been a lot of firsts in the lives of my twin babies this week. They have now moved to their own bedroom, having finally outgrown the bassinets beside our bed. I’ve been putting them in their own cots for day sleeps for a week now to get them used to the idea but [...]

Blogging journey comes full circle

Edward in the bath

I have decided to merge Roaming Tales with my personal blog. You will notice a new category called The Niltiac Files that contains all my imported personal blog posts dating back to 2004. I’m still sorting out the sub-categories and tags to assist with navigation through the archive and over time I will also work [...]

Back in Australia

November and early December were a mad rush to get ready to leave California. We had to sell the car, organise shipping, sell most of our furniture and excess household goods, organise flights, finish up work and tenancy commitments, and so on. The month since then couldn’t be more different – it’s been almost pure [...]

Planes, zeppelins and space ships

We made it safely back to Sydney on Saturday morning. Our departure wasn’t without dramas – our plane was delayed over six hours on the tarmac on Thursday night and we didn’t fly out until Friday night. More on this in another post… but on the positive side, I got my upgrade to business class, [...]

Let’s get real on WikiLeaks

I find myself in the decidedly odd position of agreeing with Ron Paul, the maverick Republican congressman from Texas. (Odd for me as a bonafide liberal, that is). Really can we please all calm down over this whole WikiLeaks thing? The knives are out for Julian Assange of WikiLeaks over these leaked diplomatic cables. Mike [...]

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