Website of the week

Well, several actually. I have spruced up my sidebar, put away some summer weight links and replaced with red hot cosy knitted website links of wintery goodness. Or something. Lucky I'm not in sales huh? Anyway, I quite like Post secrets, Dinosaur comics, Cecily, and Know one teach one, and a site I discovered thanks to an old work friend, 'Kiva' - you can go on line, lend $25 to someone in a poor region around the world setting up a business or repairing a home, and they pay you back when they get on their feet. It's microfinance with a personal touch that I think is really nice (no, haven't done it yet, but plan to next pay, will let you know how it goes). Hoping it's not a horrible Nigerian scam, but it doesn't look like it.

Still bitterly cold here, by Sydney standards anyway, but has stopped raining and howling with wind.

Congratulations due left right and centre for major milestones in the last week: Guitar Boy for hitting the big three oh (sorry I missed the day, sounds like it was a good one), A and Dr J for moving into their new digs, E-Chan and the B-star for both having their first birthdays. Big 'you rock's also to the lovely Amberguity for surviving her 2 week work trip to a dangerous Pacific locale which always means reduced freedom of movement (think armed guards to go vegie shopping), to Mermaidgrrrl and Little Mister for a spontaneous trip to the home town to visit friends and fams and show off bub, and to Miss B for winding down her Sydney work and packing up life and still managing to find time to socialise and share other people's big occasions with grace and only ever so slight mounting of tension as the to do list grows, and also to me (wha?) yes to me - for organising my next work trip to Vietnam and trying to get excited about it even though I kinda felt like staying home for a while, and for tackling some hard but lingering and important family stuff.