aka R’acquel

My son came up to me the other day saying, “Mummy! Look what i designed!” Check it out…

It’s a drilling machine, complete with drilling arms, two motors, light sensor, a radar/satelite dish and many grinding gears. A mighty impressive feat of engineering for a 6yo. Well, it knocked his parents out - of course.

My son & I have a ritual of photographing his designs so we had a lot of fun trying to take action shots of the driller. We managed to capture this shot with all the gears & drilling arms in full motion …without a tripod …no flash …and only the 60W ceiling light illuminating the room at night. 555

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To this day, i still wonder if i’m the only woman on this earth who laughed her fucking brains out when the dude in the “Doom” movie spots that super-mega-gun and utters the words,

“Big Fucking Gun”.

My fucking god - the BFG! I knew it was the BFG before he actually said BFG in the movie and that’s what made it so funny! How could i not possibly laugh?! It’s not like that weapon was easy to get in the Doom game, but when you actually got it - shit man, couldn’t that thing blow so good?! It was just like Duke Nukem’s fucking flamethrower - one hell of a mad power-up alright.

Was i really the only woman in this entire world who laughed when the BFG appeared in the Doom movie? Am i also the only who one also thinks of Roal Dahl’s big friendly giant because of the BFG acronym?

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*tired eyes*

My life is split in two different directions to focus on at the moment. Intense, but both seem to be going great and i’m reaching a pivotal *gah* in the attempt to get work completed.

Look forward to catching up with my friends soon.

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My friend Rambling Rose & I cordially invite all of our friends to join us for a scenic tour in Sydney, where a donkey tragically dies from the smell of his own farts during our Fabric Shopping Adventure in Cabramatta over at Newtown Mums.

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How similarly, or how differently do we draw pictures compared to other people? I would appreciate all the help i can get on this experiment, especially if you know someone who speaks a language other than english.

A Sunny Post Challenge!

To all my friends out there - you have all been tagged and i promise this is a very simple task that won’t take much time.

STEP 1
Please pull out a piece of paper and draw a picture of a sun right now. Don’t read the rest of my post beyond this point, as it will ruin & spoil this experiment, so please draw that picture of a sun - right now. Preferably to be done on a piece of paper, but you can use the computer to draw this picture if you’ve got no other option, right now.

STEP 2
I would like to know the steps you took to construct it, describe how you drew it - comment.

Did you draw the circle first? Where did you start with the pen? At the top-right corner? Did you go in a clockwise or anti-clockwise direction? Did you draw the radiating lines next? Start at the top? Then maybe work your way round in a clock-wise direction? How did you construct it?

If you used the computer to draw, please make a mention of it and describe the tools, steps & directions you took in constructing it.

STEP 3
If you have more time to do this as a post on your blog, i would love to see a picture of it at your end. Let me know and i’ll put a direct link to it in this post with a thumbnail of your picture here, so that other people can visit your sun picture and read about how you constructed it. A sunny gallery of thumbnails from many different parts of the world might paint a very interesting picture as a collective whole.

If you’re keen to take it on, please leave a comment with Mr.Linky and link up your url to the sunshine post. Directing links to the sun shining on your blog will be appreciated.

~ Thanks!

Here’s how my 6yo son constructs a sun at the moment

The timing of the strokes are closely approximated to how he drew this sun in real life.

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For those who know me fairly well, they’ll know i have a tendancy to take things to a whole new level. The following is a very cheeky TV promo for Newtown Mums. We hope you find it up-lifting! Go on, “empower” yourself, right now!

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