The E-von Page

I'll be on the radio

2007-02-14T12:00:00.000+11:00

I'll be talking about Fairtrade and Fair Trade Fortnight on the Radio Africa program on Edge Radio 99.3FM, this Sunday 18th Feb, 6-7pm. Can someone tape it for me or give me feedback on how it went?Stay tuned for more aboutFair Trade Fortnight 0728th April - 13th MayAn energetic committee is organising some exciting events in Hobart to promote Fairtrade - so more people buy it and more people

Back in the city

2007-02-05T22:47:00.000+11:00

I have finished the Permaculture course & now have a Permaculture Design Certificate. Yay! It's quite satisfying to have completed this course seeing as I had wanted to do it for 6 or so years now. I learnt more than i realised and have been thinking that maybe i didn't really know what Permaculture was before i did the course. I didn't know what i didn't know. There was so much interesting stuff

2wks off and a permaculture course

2007-01-19T15:20:00.000+11:00

The garden photos are inspired by the permaculture course I'm doing over the next 2 weeks.Since uni days (98-01) I've been interested in Permaculture and wanted to do a course. I kept thinking I'd wait til i buy my own house so I can design the yard and additions to house using permaculture principles. But at this rate who knows when that will be and I want to get stuck into this longterm

15 minute potato box

2007-01-19T15:12:00.000+11:00

Get a wooden box from the tip shop, put compost, potting mix, sheep poo in the bottom. Plant some potatoes - seed potatoes from a shop or ones from the kitchen that are starting to sprout. put about a 20-30cm layer of straw or leaves or other mulch. Keep adding more straw/mulch around around the stem of the potatoes as they grow up, until the box is full of straw and the plants have grown out of

high hopes for apricots

2007-01-19T15:09:00.000+11:00

the apricot tree in the backyard.Owen loaned me the netting. So none for you this year, birds! All for me! well us humans anyway

curly yellow zucchini

2007-01-19T14:56:00.000+11:00

in my gardenwe ate this one already

Reduce, Reuse and Freecycle

2007-01-17T22:38:00.000+11:00

Have you heard of Freecycle? All over the world there are Freecycle groups. A freecycle group is an email group for a local area and people send messages offering items for free and other people in the group reply to that person saying they want it. I recently posted messages for a friend who wanted to give away some furniture because she was moving. I also got a Discman yesterday. The people

today, which just became yesterday

2006-12-16T00:00:00.000+11:00

Today (i mean friday)Fiona, Cathy and I visited Senator Calvert and presented the "Unity Statement on Overcoming Global Poverty" signed by 8 leaders of christian denominations in Tasmania and endorsed by 17 christian organisations.It was a positive meeting and he is fairly supportive of our concerns. He was also quite approachable and relaxed. We discovered that he has been on trips to Africa,

Vitamin D in Butter & margarine

2006-12-12T18:14:00.000+11:00

In reply to a question on my post about Vitamin D (and my deficiency!) here are some figures of Vitamin D content of some foods - including butter & margarine: (from Nutrition & Dietetics, my professions main journal for Australia)Vitamin D content per 100g of the food (ug)(note that you might not eat 100g of the food - esp. butter & marg! but this is for comparisonHerrings, kippers

How rich are you?

2006-12-11T13:43:00.000+11:00

Do you think that you are on a low income or an average income?Compare your income with the rest of the world's.Visit the Global Rich List website and enter your annual income.(you will need to convert your income into US dollars or UK pounds, to do that click here to go to to a currency converter)

things i haven't blogged about yet

2006-11-22T11:41:00.000+11:00

This is a quick entry from work to at least put something new on my blog in lieu of all the things I wanted to post about over the last couple of months.Just to let you know, that if i had more time and had it been a higher priority i would have written a post about:- the amazing washington street garden working bee series- my holiday and tour of Canberra, Wollongong and Sydney friends in

Dietitian with a vitamin deficiency

2006-10-10T23:03:00.000+11:00

I went to the doctor for a bit of a review of my hip problem and also osteoporosis risk (i have a few risk factors). I asked for a Vitamin D blood test and when the results came back it was low: 20 nmol/L. This is moderate deficiency. I suspected it would be low. It was also taken when it would be at it's lowest during the year (early spring) - when the body hasn't been getting much sun and its

Jury Duty

2006-09-27T22:56:00.000+10:00

I received a jury summons.I had to attend court one monday and went into a room with about 60 or so other randomly selected citizens. After a brief spiel from a friendly staff member, names were called over a loudspeaker of people who had to go inside the court room to be part of a jury. They selected people for 2 trials, i think. I wasn't selected on the first monday but along with the rest of

A new pond

2006-09-03T19:33:00.000+10:00

This is the new pond that I've been very excited about. It's very "Permaculture". This old bath had been in our backyard since before I moved in. Dave dreamed of using is as an outdoor bath and positioning it so a fire could be lit underneath to heat up the water. That idea sounded great but it so heavy, and Dave hasn't been living at our place for a while so I ended up decided it would be good

Make Affluence History

2006-08-21T22:26:00.000+10:00

I discovered this new campaign through Ben's blog. He has a post about the Make Affluence History Campaign. The main aspect of the campaign is that you can sponsor an affluent North American child. I will let you know if there's any other campaigning activities we can take part in. ;)As yet, I can't see there a banner or logo I can put on my blog on the opposite side to the MakePovertyHistory

Kenyan connections

2006-08-02T20:14:00.000+10:00

On the weekend of July 7-9th TEAR held a conference here in Hobart in conjunction with Forge called Re.imagine06: Developing a spirituality of mission + justice.We were fortunate to have 2 international speakers who had just spoken at TEAR's national conference in NSW. Hellen Yego (pictured) is from Kenya and has worked for 15 years with the Christian Community Services (CCS) of the Anglican

hollywood hilarities

2006-07-20T23:13:00.000+10:00

If i could vote for my favourite blog, i would have to say:Dave Globull: fuzz, fact, fiction and frictionClick on the links in the Family & Friends blogs menu on the right hand side.I recommend paying it a visit but to get the stories in order scroll down and start from the earlier posts. His Hollywood adventure is definitely worth the read!Dave is in California at the moment, he has been staying

More Grandad thoughts and grafting apples

2006-07-09T23:51:00.000+10:00

I'm finding it odd trying realise that Grandad isn't here anymore. It's sad, seeing as the whole 26 years of my life have included him. It would be a million times harder for Granny seeing as 60 or more years of her life has been with him, I'm not sure how she will go with adjusting to life without him.It times like this that show me acutely how precious they are and how fortunate I've been to

Yvonne and Owen

2006-07-09T23:14:00.000+10:00

Visit Sherrin's post that mentions me and Owen. Click hereI'm too shy to say anymore . Although my good friend Owen has popped up quite a few posts back when we were friends but not quite as good friends as we are now.There's lots of good things about Owen. I won't go into them here. One nice thing is that Owen has 2 ducks, one is called Jason, named after his brother-in-law who doesn't eat many

Grandad's book

2006-07-09T22:51:00.000+10:00

Grandad finished off his memiors this year and he lived to see the published version. The least I can do is give some free advertising for it. Here is the front cover, which Andrew, my graphically-talented brother designed. The cover looks great Andrew, a great blend of the olden-days and good design of the 00's. My dad put a great deal of work into typing up and editing the manuscript and so

Life forever

2006-07-06T23:35:00.000+10:00

Grandad just died. It hasn't sunk in yet and at the moment i'm still in Hobart. Not sure when i will go to Launceston exactly. However Grandad is experiencing more joy that we could understand:"Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope. We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring

I'll be on the radio

2006-06-29T23:29:00.000+10:00

Listen to 936am (ABC local radio for southern Tasmania) at about 3:05pm and you should hear me and some students from Friends School being interviewed about fair trade. I'm not sure of the exact time, it will be probably be after the 3 o'clock news. (it will be definitely before 4pm but probably before 3:30pm)

and if all else fails...

2006-06-26T21:44:00.000+10:00

Yvonne's cold and flu recommendations

2006-06-23T19:03:00.000+10:00

Hi all,Today i've had an easy day at home, well it's not been completely easy because my immune system is working hard to fight off some very brave bugs. I say brave, because my immune system seems to be quite tough as i rarely get sick. Last year i took off one day's sick leave and this year there's been one. My usual pattern is to start feeling like i'm getting a bug but it usually doesn't

How Fairtrade impacts on the lives of cocoa growing communities

2006-06-19T18:01:00.000+10:00

Article from the Fair Trade Association of Australia and New Zealand, Winter 2006 newletter:Cocoa Speaker TourEvery year in Australia and New Zealand we spend millions indulging in one of our favourite pastimes – eating chocolate! But for many cocoa farmers in the developing world, the reality of the chocolate industry is anything but sweet.For Fair Trade Fortnight 2006, we invited two

Chocolate and cocoa - what you need to know

2006-06-13T21:39:00.000+10:00

"Look! The wages you failed to pay the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty." (Look up James 5:1-6 in the bible to see the rest)Recently I've been learning about where the cocoa comes from that is used to make the chocolate we eat. 67% of the worlds cocoa is produced in Ghana and the Ivory Coast, it's also

Grandad

2006-06-01T22:13:00.000+10:00

I just heard from mum that Grandad is in hospital again. She doesn't often ring me and she was talking in a way that made it sound very serious. He's been bleeding from the bladder again, had an operation to quarterise it to stop the bleeding and will have a transfusion of 3 bags of blood. I don't think I grasped how serious she was trying to indicate it was. He's been through all of the above

Who is blind, deaf or handicapped?

2006-04-24T11:56:00.000+10:00

If you fail to see the person but only the disability, who is blind?If your heart and mind do not reach out to your neighbour, who is handicapped?If you cannot hear your brothers cry for justice, who is deaf? - Tony Wong, Jamaica (paraplegic since 1976)

Autumn in City Park, my Grandparents, and death is not the end

2006-04-16T09:20:00.000+10:00

Autumn in City Park, April 2006. This is a photo I took yesterday when I was on my way to my Grandparents house in Launceston. They live only 10 minutes walk from City Park, on Elphin Road.Granny is 84 and Grandad is 94 years old. They have lived in the same house for about 47 years. My dad has been editing Grandad's memoirs and there are plans to get it printed.They are both suffering with

home made hot cross buns

2006-04-14T16:03:00.000+10:00

spot the odd one out

my local community - south hobart

2006-04-14T15:47:00.000+10:00

i've been thinking i'd like to get more involved in my local community of South Hobart. Today I went to the All Saints Anglican church just down the road for the first time. It was a Good Friday service, the choir sang beautiful music and it was nice to think many of the other people attending probably live in South Hobart.There's lots of opportunities to get more involved in south hobart: the

First snow for Autumn

2006-04-11T22:32:00.000+10:00

....although there was some snow on the mountain in Summer!This is a picture of Mount Wellington taken from Wellesley Park in South Hobart. Some people are playing soccer in the foreground.

TEAR group 2006

2006-03-25T14:19:00.000+11:00

Here are some of the lovely people who came to the TEAR BBQ last Sunday to get the TEAR group going for 2006. From the left there is Owen, Brit, Cooper, Jo, baby Amelia, Jeremy and holding the BBQ tongs is Cathy. It should be a good year for the TEAR group with a mix of learning, including info nights to invite friends to, campainging and prayer. Our first meeting will feature cathy sharing her

Mystery car trip

2006-03-25T13:54:00.000+11:00

This is Owen and Roy on our mystery car trip. Unfortunately James couldn't make it but we'll have to go again sometime! Here i have managed to capture Roy's amazing smile. (you have a great smile too Owen, although i think i only got half of it!)Roy lives in Glenview Nursing Home and James is has been his main visitor and friend in the last couple of years. Roy has lived in North Hobart and

Gravelly Beach, voting, tomato relish, Lizzie and Yvonne

2006-03-18T23:12:00.000+11:00

< Gravelly Beach- is this Morocco or Tasmania? I can't tell with those Date Palms beside the river . I've been at my parents place since Thursday night. Being in Gravelly Beach is always relaxing. Today was especially productive: I made tomato relish with my mum, voted in the State elections, and saw my long time friend Lizzie.

Eaglehawk Neck on 8hours Day.

2006-03-17T18:57:00.000+11:00

Penny, Yvonne and Owen.Penny and Yvonne at Tasman Peninsula.Owen, Penny and I celebrated 8 Hours Day by going on a drive to Eaglehawk Neck and being a little bit touristy.

Hanging out with friends #2

2006-03-12T22:46:00.000+11:00

Amber and Yvonne at Howrah beach today. Amber and I love our beach therapy. It was kind of weird being at a beach with an amazing view of the mountain and the city. The water was clearer than at Nutgrove, Taroona and Kingston. Maybe it's more sheltered in this nook in the river.

Hanging out with friends #1

2006-03-12T22:26:00.000+11:00

Owen, Roy, Yvonne and James. I will endevour to capture Roy's amazing and cheeky smile in pictures of the mystery car trip coming up not this week but next week.

Hi Kerri

2006-03-02T13:10:00.000+11:00

Hi Kerri, here are some pics of our Vision group, everyone was a bit shy but their smiles are especially for you - they are saying "Hi Kerri!". We are in Jane Frankin and there's also a few other people who aren't in the pictures.

I don't get it but i'm curious

2006-02-28T22:04:00.000+11:00

i like the bible and i like food, it's just rather suprising to see this book in the window of my local Vinnie's shop.

now you can see me

2006-02-27T23:51:00.000+11:00

...because i've got a camera, i took the plunge and bought one! I think i got a good deal and better than i expected for the amount i wanted to spend.it was $300 and is 6 mega pixels and is the olympus brand. i didn't need 6megapixels though.I bought it from mid-city camera world after looking at a couple of other places.I won't be needing this anymore (see picture below) :

Sharing seadragon happiness

2006-02-18T22:26:00.000+11:00

Sometimes i really want to tell somebody something that I've just seen or done or thought but don't want to in case they aren't interested and wouldn't understand why I would be excited about it. This often applies to things about plants or worms. Fortunately because one of my flatmates, Matt, is also interested in these things I can share the joy of a home-grown tomato or apricot without having

Discouragement and Pride

2006-02-16T11:21:00.000+11:00

"If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers." - Mother Theresa as recorded in the book that collated her writings and speeches called "The Love of Christ" by Georges Gorree and Jean Barbier.

Joy

2006-02-16T11:15:00.000+11:00

"Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven". - Phillip Yancy in What's So Amazing about Grace? p. 14

Blogging is SOOOO 2005....

2006-02-09T22:31:00.000+11:00

I often think i'd like to make my blog one that has lots of interesting thoughts that i've been thinking about or something that is a bit more personal. I don't think i have many coherant thoughts and a lot of them get repeated a many times in my head. Every now and then there's a good one, but i either forget it or am not able to express it clearly. Unfortunately i don't seem to have that

Remembering winter in summer

2006-01-23T20:26:00.000+11:00

This is a photo I found of some people sliding down the road that goes up Mount Wellington. It is on that magical Thursday in August (or some month) when there was heaps of snow in Hobart even down to my house in South Hobart!

Marigold

2005-10-27T23:28:00.000+11:00

First snow peas

2005-10-27T23:22:00.000+11:00

Meet the Residents of The New Worm Palace

2005-10-27T23:20:00.000+11:00

Red Cabbage beauty

2005-10-27T23:17:00.000+11:00

Photo of me and my vegie garden at Washington Street.

2005-10-27T23:16:00.000+11:00

2005-10-18T22:53:00.000+11:00

The New Worm Palace

Grafts on the apple tree

2005-10-18T22:49:00.000+11:00

Here is the Granny Smith graft that Owen put on our apple tree here at Washington Street. As you can see it has sprouted and going really well. He also graft Pink Lady and Gala on to the same tree but they haven't sprouted yet although one of the gala grafts looks like it's about to. It's very exciting.

Yvonne at Oatlands Open Day

2005-10-18T22:39:00.000+11:00

Here I am with our stall. We didn't sell any of the cookbooks but we did give away heaps of spiral apples (probably about 10-12kg worth). Kids and adults alike were very curious about the apple peeler/corer/slicer device and took order forms to think about getting one at home. It's great seeing kids get excited about an apple and even line up for one.There were lots of people in Oatlands on the

Sugar in drinks display at Oatlands Open day

2005-10-18T22:24:00.000+11:00

Oatlands Open Day on Sunday was a success. It was a fabulously sunny day and when ended up having our stall outdoors. This is my display of how much sugar is in coke, cordial and water, if you had one drink every day for a week (ie. 390ml bottl of coke, 300ml glass of cordial or 500ml bottle of water). The signs read: Cordial, 55 teaspoons of sugar, Cola Soft drink (not to implicate any single

My very scientific seed raising mix experiment

2005-10-15T23:14:00.000+11:00

All these pots contain tomato seedlings - except for a few zucchini's at the back. The square icecream containers have Rouge de Marmande tomato seeds/seedlings in them but with different types of seed raising mixes. They were all sown at the same time and place in the same conditions (ie. the mini greenhouse). The brown container 2nd from the left is doing the best - it contains 4 parts sifted

My homemade mini-greenhouse

2005-10-15T23:06:00.000+11:00

My mini green house containing the seed raising experiment

Eat fruit and vegetables

2005-10-12T22:49:00.000+11:00

I thought i'd mention my work in this blog. This picture could represent the efforts dietitians may go to to make vegetables more exciting to children.This sunday I'm having a stall at "Oatlands Open Day" as part of my dietitian position based in Oatlands. I'm going to sell healthy cookbooks (they are quite good ones), have free spiral apples for the kids made using the appler peeler/corer/slicer

Tomato seedlings and The New Worm Palace

2005-10-09T15:15:00.000+11:00

The tomato seeds have come up in my mini-greenhouse. The Seed Raising Mix experiment is going well although unfortunately the AJ (Andrew James) mix isn't going too well (50:50 Worm castings:sand), i think only one has sprouted. Andrew, I reckon you would have thought differently when you saw the texture of the mix because it clumps together and also form a bit of a crust on the surface when it

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

2005-10-09T15:00:00.000+11:00

I've just finished reading The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Ofcourse I read Prince Caspian before this. The Voyage.. was a fantastic story and I enjoyed it more than Prince Caspian (which was still good, just not as good as the other books so far). It has so many more adventures in it and is less predictable than Prince Caspian (well in fact it's not really predictable at all). The Chronicles of

Taj Palace

2005-09-21T23:09:00.000+10:00

I just went to the new restaurant called The Taj Palace in in North Hobart. It was really tasty, and their menu was more like a book than a menu. They were a bit stressed though and it took ages for our orders to arrive, we think once things settle down that it would get better. It was still very tasty though!I think i'm kind of advertising accidentally.

No junk mail

2005-09-21T23:01:00.000+10:00

After receiving my first 2 comments on my blog, i'm disappointed one is junk mail (thanks for your comment though Andy). So I've decided to officially declare my blog a:NO JUNK MAIL zoneI'm not interested in horse racing thanks. If i don't know you and you don't know me, i'm happy to meet but please don't advertise to me unless it's really clear that i would actually be interested (ie.worm

Narnia confessions

2005-09-20T21:05:00.000+10:00

This year I seemed to have rediscovered reading. This was triggered off by allowing myself to read fiction books for enjoyment as opposed to reading non-fiction books purely for learning. I've found the trick is to find books to read that I have trouble putting down and that are written in an easy to read style. Lately I've been reading The Chronicles of Narnia. I'm very embarrassed to say they I

My first green house

2005-09-15T22:47:00.000+10:00

Today I made a mini-greenhouse for raising seedlings. I'm very pleased with myself and the final results. It cost me nothing because i used materials already laying around because i'm terrible at throwing anything away. It's made from wire mesh, plastic (from sheep poo bags), wire to anchor it into the ground. I wish i had a digital camera so i could post a picture of it straight away. I will

9th Sept 8:30pm, 112 Liverpool Street

2005-09-02T20:19:00.000+10:00

9th September, 8:30pm 112 Liverpool Street, Hobartthis is a MAKE poverty HISTORY eventkeeping our governments moving towards halving poverty by 2015TRADE JUSTICE. DROP THE DEBT. MORE & BETTER AIDBuy a white arm band ready to wear the next day - white arm band day 10th September Enjoy the music.

A book I've just read

2005-08-07T23:00:00.000+10:00

In the last few months I've been reading novels. I've just finished reading the book pictured here:"A Woman of Independence: A story of love and the birth of a new nation" by Kirsty Sword Gusmao. I've wanted to read books that are in written as a story but that I can also learn from at the same time. This book hits the mark. Kirsty is an Australian who married Xanana Gusmao before he becamethe

Bangladesh

2005-08-06T23:23:00.000+10:00

I've started posting some pictures taken when I went to Bangladesh in January (2005). Click on the "Recent visit to Bangladesh" link on the right-hand side of this page to see the pictures. For two amazing weeks I visited Bangladesh with 20 other Australians on a trip organised through TEAR Australia and three of TEAR's partner organsitions in Bangladesh.To explain who TEAR are, here is an

Welcome to the The E-von Page

2005-08-06T21:20:00.000+10:00

Hi Friends and Family,Thanks for visiting my new blog. Please come again! I'm at home now visiting my family in Gravelly Beach and it feels luxurious to have time to indulge in making a blog. I intended to post pictures of my trip to Bangladesh on a blog however, that is yet to happen but stay tuned. If you are interested i think there is a way you can be notified by email for updates to this