Baby Burkah

What's with the space age strollers the yummy mummy and then a black vinyl burka pegged to the top shade.

Forget coochi cooing the cute munchkin, he's hidden behind the veil. Ok so the over zealous mummies spray tanned to a perfect shade are scared to expose their babies to some of that evil solar vitamin a, warmth & light.

 The baby will never know the joy of the swaying, leafy branch, the vibrant bouganvilia or the test pattern  plumage of the rainbow lorikeet. 

Or is it mummies need for baby to bound along the pavement without any outside stimulus so she can fall asleep and  so by the time we are at the cafe, mummy can have a peaceful relaxed cup of stimulant?

Then off they'll go paying big bucks at a baby activity group where the babies play with birds, leaves & flowers!

The only other thought on the covered carriages is that mummy firmly believes that HER baby is the most beautiful. No comments or comparisons if baby gorgeous in under wraps. 

Come on girls & some of you dads, rug up baby, slap on the ultra sensitive sun block, pull of the burka and let baby join all the fun of the great outdoors. He can goo & gawk with you at the shop windows, cry out for a banana at $14 a kilo at the boutique fruit store, giggle at the birds flying onto their perches and blow a kiss or raspberry at granny types who take a peep into their pram.

carbon credit washing line

On returning back to living in Oz after 2 years in US it was bliss to use my washing line again. Our apartment in Boston didn't even have a line option as much of the freezing year it was dryer only, but in summer hey?
Anyway back home I hang with joy, breath in that great backyard air with the sun on my back and the massive camellia trees ahead. When my dryer died, I never replaced it.
If God has given us wind and sun I'll go with the blow.
With the added bonus of the grandchildren I've learnt that laundry hanging lends itself to so many games.
1/Please pass a red peg, blue peg, white peg.2/ Whose t-shirt is this? Whose sock?
3/ Lets hide & play parachute under this king size flat sheet.
4/ How many pegs can I clip onto your dress, fingers, jacket, hair?
I mean how much fun can you have with a dryer? I think of all the carbon credit I'm accumulating using solar & wind energy, and those few extra calories I burn carrying laundry basket, knee bend basket, peg and down again, and then in reverse with the return of the dry.
A relative from Canada was watching this quaint Aussie ritual while on a visit. She grabbed her camera to catch the action to show the folks back home.
I have a strong suspicion I'm the only laundry hanger on my block or even suburb, a dinosaur in Dover Heights, well then I must be the only granny whose kids get excited by the sound of the washing machine & all the fun that promises.  xx di-gittel

so long between blogs

Would you believe its taken me so long to write again as I forgot how to get into this site. So 50 something!
Very embarrassing for a granny who considers herself a little bit of a computer wizz, well evidently not.
What I can do is open Facebook and check out the new grandchildren's photos. I then make a comment to show them all that I love them.
When the kids come over I can open up Elmo's Song & play & replay then when I an sick od it, they never will be, I find the old favourites. Do you know many versions & verses there are of " The wheels of the Bus"?
Well of course there can be too much of all the golden oldies & sitting and bouncing on grandma's lap staring at a computer screen.
I then offer a picnic treat.
Chopped apple in a colourful plastic bowl out the back door sitting on a rug on the grass and voila a picnic with grandma savti, what could be better?

Granny wisdom

Well we are up & running coz the world needs another blogger!
Perhaps if I keep my raging ideas to a blog space it may just control the speed & range of my ideas. Well maybe that's not such a good thing if I aim to be the granny blogging queen...


So often friends & family come back & quote some wisdom , warning or words I once told them. 


Half the time I don't remember ever having said them.  
Often very good & I am happy to claim them as my words, sooo
if I blog my current & future thoughts, ie keep a record I can honestly claim them, back reference and even be quite proud.


 After becoming a grandmother for the 1st time I was asked to speak at a get together, I said;
There are 2 things you want to hear as soon as the grandchild is born
1/ the baby is healthy & well
2/ you look too young to be a grandmother
there are no sweeter sounds to my ear.


di-gittel : sunday march 27 - 2011