Happy 1st Birthday
Two years and six days ago today, dearly beloved and I popped on down to the local IVF clinic and picked up our first big green bag of goodies. It contained a lot of needles, a lot of instructions and a whole host of emotional turmoil. And, of course, I decided to blog the entire experience. Here, go have a read: www.funwithivf.wordpress.com
Read MoreThe political is personal
I have never known any mother who does not do her absolute best to be as discrete as humanly possible about breastfeeding in public. Not a single one. Yet as this article in The Conversation shows, one of the biggest reasons woman stop breastfeeding so much earlier than modern medical advice is because of the feelings of shame and discomfort over breastfeeding in public. This is why opinions publicly aired matter. This is why nurse-ins matter when negative opinions are aired, to show public breastfeeding is normal, healthy and perfectly fine. This is why this is still an issue.
Read MoreThe Sky Octopus
What is this? No, seriously, wtf is it? The tentacled orange thing which looks like it might have come from H.P. Lovecraft's lesser known series of babies books. Baby Cthulhu anyone?
Read MoreRandom things they don’t tell you about being pregnant
Because Too Much Information is Never Enough - here are some random things they don't tell you about being pregnant...
Read MoreBDO Recovery Day
I can’t move today. Well, not without complaining. So sore. So tired. So damn worth it. I went to the Big Day Out in Melbourne yesterday. In forty degree heat. With 51,999 other insane music fans and mosh pit freaks like me. And hot or not – and believe me, it was hot – I think I went a little overboard. Or maybe I just have to acknowledge I’m no longer 20 years old and this slightly older body takes slightly longer to recover, heh. Yes, I ache in every place it is possible to ache, I am covered in bruises head to toe from multiple mosh pits, and the exhaustion is still set in my bones even now, but it was ooooh so worth it. I have been attending BDOs for, oh, twelve or thirteen years now, and the official verdict is out: 2011’s has to be one of the best...
Read MoreOnline Privates
Apparently, Facebook sux at privacy. Yeah, I know. Who wudda thunk it? This shocking development seems to have stunned the online world as if no-one were previously aware that if you stick your privates out there online, then they might not be quite so private anymore , at least not so private as they would be if you didn’t, well, stick them out there online. Trusies. Digital punters around the world are gabbling on about Facebook privacy issues as if the whole issue is making them turn as faint and tottery as a bunch of eighteenth century gothic damsels-in-distress at a “how to lure in your heroic rescuer” self-help convention. All in the cause of looking horrified that social media sites might not be the most secure sites in the world when it...
Read MoreAbout Me
I’m Kathryn Hore. I’m a writer and photographer and occasional librarian. I write speculative fiction of all kinds, as well as business non-fiction, which is not as unrelated as you might think. I take photos of weddings and spiders, though usually not at the same time, and live in the Dandenong Ranges on the outskirts of Melbourne. Online you’ll find me under the handle @kahmelb, at least on those sites where I’m happy to be publicly identified and which wouldn’t make my mother blush. Much.