linguistics...

Interesting thoughts from a past student of mine...https://t.co/AsBGcOESO1 pic.twitter.com/yQyFZnOz3s

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 9, 2020

Sunday at home...

I get a very special gaze when someone is very intent on wanting something... especially near lunchtime... pic.twitter.com/SoJvQlAi1s

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 9, 2020

Wonderful to see some blue blue sky and sun just now in the Dromana Hills... pic.twitter.com/JbW3UvHPeC

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 9, 2020

And I found a beautiful rose in my garden... just one...but one is enough for happiness... pic.twitter.com/Lla6oXO2fn

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 9, 2020

And on my verandah... yesterday a mosaic cobweb, and today a surprise visitor... pic.twitter.com/nnd6KtmKgG

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 9, 2020

eggs and a book...

Old Amos counts the eggs he gets from his chooks. "That Leghorn Isa hen laid 260 last year boy."

I said, that's a few Amos.

He looked at the rain, then at the book.

"Not sure why a bloke'd want six chooks. That's a lotta fuckin eggs boy."

It is Amos, it is.

2/2

— Tim Mallon (@PatMalo85776814) August 8, 2020

rattling windows...

Rattling windows and doors... branches hissing and scratching on the roof... a few unknown low booms and bangs...
Yes... the winter wind has a new song to play tonight...
Percussion style...

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 8, 2020

Miena in winter...

Less than 100 people live in lakeside Miena, in Tasmania's Central Highlighlands. And winter temperatures by day are rarely above 6 degrees centigrade... https://t.co/enB8Q2EQ8W pic.twitter.com/4lXrA28Fs0

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 8, 2020

I know this is just over a year ago - May 2019- but love this snowy scene at Miena with the Great Lake behind snow-laden trees...https://t.co/1ikXd5D38J pic.twitter.com/VaQ235xytC

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 8, 2020

glimpse of afternoon winter sun...

So lovely to see and feel a little soft sun this afternoon...and see some blossoms slowly emerging on a tree in my Dromana Hills garden...... pic.twitter.com/dDtM7C6gyG

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 8, 2020

And my Dromana Hills verandah was proud so show me a mosaic cobweb beautifully laced between my outdoor chair and footstool... pic.twitter.com/tFSxEGDnhK

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 8, 2020

rising trend...

A rising trend...Merchandise cashing in on current Australian, specifically Victorian, public figures... pic.twitter.com/e3Uage5REv

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 8, 2020

Dan Andrews' merchandise, (beyond pillows), includes face masks... again, all on Red Bubble... pic.twitter.com/zYgiBwe8qs

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 8, 2020

wild wonder of ISO...

This article is a treasure... our beautiful escapades (+ possible ones) in ISO...'The wonderful Magda Szubanski has constructed an entire Taj Mahal out of Lego in her living room...' + 'teaching a pet poodle the moves to Nutbush'... and more... https://t.co/3fwXqDtrYq pic.twitter.com/TUhydXqIFu

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 8, 2020

Even love the title of this article 'Alchemy for glum times...'

Julia Baird in the above article: 

'Three of the things that have kept me going during periods of protracted illness and recovery are: susurrus in the trees (the sound of the wind whispering, rustling), apricity (the feeling of sun warming cold skin on a winter’s day) and, of course, the delicious smell of petrichor. I love these three words.' 

'Isabel Joy Bear was her name. In 1964 an Australian chemist who worked at the CSIRO for 40 years – a woman we seem to have almost entirely forgotten – came up with the name “petrichor” for the smell of rain on dry earth, and was the first to describe it in scientific terms. (For those interested in such things she found that soils with silica or metals in them were “outstanding in their capacity to yield the odour”.) 

 The smell of petrichor, too, is the smell of a broken drought.'

timetabling?...

In the last few years my Melbourne school switched from a 7 period day, trialled an 8 for 2 years (ugh) and now on a 6 period day based on a 10-day timetable. The latter is great from the teachers' and students' point of view...never the same class every week last period Friday.

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 7, 2020

The other advantage of a 10-day timetable is that all subjects have a greater opportunity to have morning lessons (more learning-friendly). I personally would like the 5-period timetable 2 2 1 (the latter after lunch) on the 10-day timetable.

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 7, 2020

fruit you say?...

Lovely ripe fruit you say? Tangerines? Would you believe... buns?...
Le Thuy, a secondary school teacher from Ho Chi Minh city made these unique creations...https://t.co/SQMmUSS83J pic.twitter.com/bmjTcIe85o

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 7, 2020