She’s arrived! All 8lbs (3.63kg) of Ada Meyler arrived very quickly just 8 minutes past International Womens’ Day so I got most of my IWD wish come true!
Here’s a not very gorgeous pic of me and her. I have a daughter!
Here’s Ada with her aunt Abigail & her granny Elizabeth. 
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I am so self absorbed these days. Much as I was back in June 2006 as I counted the days until Nipper 2.0’s arrival or not as the case was then. You would think I would make the most of this time blogging and casting over on The Rosie View but I managed to completely banjax my back last Monday and couldn’t sit or lie down comfortably for about 5 days. I don’t generally have a bad back so this was my first experience of the excruciating pain that can be experienced and I readily admit I was blubbing like a baby. All I could take for the pain was Panadol! Thankfully by Friday it seemed to have eased off and I started thinking “Hey I could do this whole birth thing!”. Then the next thing you know Nipper 1.0 spends all Saturday night puking on the half hour so by the time 6am came around on Sunday the two of us got up (Himself having done the lion’s share of pajama and bed changing during the night.) So yesterday I was exhasusted again and hopeful not to go into labour as much for my own energy levels as for Himself’s.
So time is hanging heavy on my hands and my feet and my belly. I found a photo of myself at 40 weeks on Nipper 2.0 and created the collage below because as mentioned I’m very self absorbed these days.
The silhouette on the left is me in 2006 and the silhouette on the right is me yesterday. I reckon I looked bigger in 2006!
I know many of you are waiting for our news so here’s a song to keep you amused in the meantime 
A great iconic female singer for International Women’s Day.
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Georgia Cusack sings with my sister Abigail in this beautiful arrangement by Brendan Walsh for the Diversus Guitar Ensemble of “Light a Match” from her album “Night Time Walking”
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Well I am a bit crotchety to discover that I missed a workshop on hyperbolic crochet last Saturday with Margaret Wertheim who I have written about before. However I was delighted to see that she is coming back on March 12th 2010 to talk at Tedx Dublin 3. Aaaarrrgggghhh. It is highly unlikely that I will be in any fit state to appear in public by March 12th. It is not beyond the realms of possibility that I could still be pregnant by then. For those of you who can make it have your fingers at the ready: tickets are available from March 1st and usually sell like hotcakes. Dammit!
However all is not lost! The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef is coming to Dublin and will be on display in the Science Gallery with contributions from Irish hookers between 30 March and 28 May 2010. I should have crawled out from under my own reef by then to check it out.
I have been writing about this hyperbolic modelling using crochet since 2008 (I still haven’t created any myself. Ah life!) and like a reef it seems to have taken on a life of its own. The Sydney project are using it to draw attention to the plight of their own great barrier reef but to me it is a metaphor not only for endangered habitats and species but endangered skills and knowledge. I read a blog post recently by a crocheter I follow about who taught you to crochet. I have no recollection about how I learnt how to crochet. I think I learnt from some craft books we had at home when I was growing up. I’m not very good at it to be honest and haven’t completed a project since secondary school except for a hat here or there. Maybe the internet can save endangered skills like these? I know I get a lot of inspiration from blogs I read and find via my Google Alerts and there is certainly no shortage of instruction on sites like VideoJug. I even picked up an app for my iPhone! (this link will open iTunes).
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How To Crochet A Basic Single Crochet
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