Category: Current Events
Mamatography 2013: Week 3 – Keep On Keeping On
| January 23, 2013 | Posted by Luschka under Current Events, Mamatography |
Life is otherwise, here in Perth. One day I feel like a tourist, the next I feel like I live here. One day I’m doing very little of anything much, and the next I’m running around all over the place. There’s no routine and no real stability.
Perth Nurse In 2013 – Normalising Breastfeeding In Public
| January 22, 2013 | Posted by Luschka under Breastfeeding, Current Events, Motherhood |
Whether you call it a nurse-in, a breastfeeding protest or lactivism, I love a good session of breastfeeding in public with a bunch of other women also breastfeeding in public. The beauty of breastfeeding activism is that it can’t be an angry event – by it’s very nature, breastfeeding releases oxytocin, the love hormone, and…
London 2012: A Mama, A Baby, BA And Women’s Hockey
| August 2, 2012 | Posted by Luschka under Around England, Current Events |
On Tuesday afternoon Aviya and I set off for London to be guests of British Airways at the London Olympics 2012 Women’s Hockey. We had an amazing time.
Keep Britain Breastfeeding Scavenger Hunt
| June 3, 2012 | Posted by Luschka under Carnivals, Current Events, Keep Britain Breastfeeding |
During the month of June, we here at Diary of a First Child will be joining up with the Keep Britain Breastfeeding Scavenger Hunt.
4 Lasting Ways To Celebrate Earth Day
| April 22, 2012 | Posted by Luschka under Current Events, Knowledge and Understanding of the World, Raising Conscious Children, Sponsored |
It’s Earth Day today, and while many people might not even realise it, millions of others around the world will be participating in Earth Day activities. In past years we’ve done things like black outs, where everyone is encouraged to turn off their lights for an hour in the evening, or meet at a local…
Money Saving At Home (Part 1)
| March 29, 2012 | Posted by Luschka under Current Events, Misc, Sponsored |
I have mentioned before that money is a little tight around these parts at the moment, since my hubby hasn’t been working full time for a few months now. I realise that looking around me, many people are facing the same or similar circumstances, and there’s a repossessions warehouse near where we live that’s recently…
The 40 Hour Famine
| August 25, 2011 | Posted by Luschka under Current Events |
The other day I walked into a shop to pick up a few groceries. There was a boy of about eight years old standing outside begging for food. His clothes were filthy, he was covered in dust and his shoes were held together by elastic and tape. I know he wasn’t my child. I know…
Mozambique – A Window To Another World
| August 16, 2011 | Posted by Luschka under Around Africa, Current Events, Travel |
Mozambique. I’ve never been to it, but always known it as a place for great fish, and beautiful beach holidays, but I knew nothing about the country or it’s people prior to our visit. Mozambique reminds me of the Africa I grew up in. A place where you could walk freely, feel no fear, need…
Mozambique. I’ve never been to it, but always known it as a place for great fish, and beautiful beach holidays, but I knew nothing about the country or it’s people prior to our visit.
Mozambique reminds me of the Africa I grew up in. A place where you could walk freely, feel no fear, need no heightened awareness. I realise that my experience of Mozambique is painfully limited to both one specific area – Ponta do Oura – and a visit, and visiting a place is very different indeed from living in it.
But, in visiting a place, you still pick up a feel for it, and you can as easily lose a piece of your heart to it as if you lived there – easier, in fact, as you don’t have to face up to the realities that can sometimes end the illusion.
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