Sarah James

Should women have the right to choose where they birth their own baby? (media release)

sarah — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:12:47 +0000

The Australian federal government is set to legislate mid next year that it will no longer be legal for a private practising midwife to deliver a baby at home. Effectively they will be taking away women’s choice to birth their babies where they want to, a choice that has been women’s since humans first walked the earth. This choice continues to be available to women who live in countries like New Zealand, The United Kingdom, Canada and the Netherlands, countries whose governments support homebirth as a safe and valid option. (more…)

Noah and Madame Kick Shins

sarah — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:25:11 +0000

The weekend afterthe slide show at Kai’s school we gave Noah the option of changing schools.

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Return to Suisse

sarah — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:46:20 +0000

Crossing back over the boarder into Switzerland it felt like we were coming home.

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Luxemburg, Belgium and France

sarah — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:35:53 +0000

Our first stop on the two-week Easter holiday was a small village on the France side of the Luxemburg boarder. I’d tried to get accommodation in Luxemburg itself but learnt that it is one of the most expensive cities in Europe to stay in and also much more in to couple accommodation than a family of six.

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A rotten pear

sarah — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:44:05 +0000

While the kids were off at school collecting their stories for the lunch time table Pete and I were at our own little school. French lessons fours times a week for an hour and a half in the morning.

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School

sarah — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:45:42 +0000

School for Jack and Poppy was good. Jack’s teacher was the, ‘To Sir with Love,’ type except instead of being a gorgeous six foot Negro, he was a slight framed Yugoslavian.

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Back at Moggy Mansion

sarah — Thu, 29 May 2008 07:55:18 +0000

I didn’t want to go back home, home now being the confines of level two of the Moggy Mansion. The thought of driving instead into Germany and exploring it for a month before we moved onto Austria and then Norway and then Sweden was appealing, so much so that it was hard to turn the car around and head back in the direction of Yverdon.

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Fasnacht

sarah — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:40:31 +0000

By the time the first school holidays came around we all needed a break even though it was only five weeks since the kids had started school. It had been a long five weeks in which we’d got lost, turned up late and been misunderstood more times than we ever had been in our lives.

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Our New Town

sarah — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:20:42 +0000

Yverdon is a typical Swiss town. Cobbled roadways run through its centre, there’s a church with spires, a town hall with an intricately decorated clock that competes with the church bells every quarter of an hour for air space and there is of course your standard medieval castle.

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The Swiss Timetable

sarah — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:53:57 +0000

Day two in Yverdon was about finding Pete and me a French school. Our first port of call was Migros. Migros is Switzerland’s favourite child, loved and adored by everyone, so much so that its ego is completely out of control.

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