The Daily Good News
Craig, and I’ve forgotten your lovely’s name, thats great news, you guys must be stoked.
I like when environmentally friendly people decide to turn the TV off and breed. AW
Ha, oh shit thanks Udo ;p
Aww thanks everyone, stoked!
AW It's Ayumi.
Craig wrote:
Ha, oh shit thanks Udo ;p
Aww thanks everyone, stoked!
AW It's Ayumi.
Arigato. What a beautiful name.
May the ‘ Sun Rise ‘ for the three of you. . AW
super cool, craig. congrats....omedetou
A new Aussie, I don't think you can have duel citizenship from Japan?
Children are the best thing ever...being a parent is a privilege.
Congratulations Ayumi and Craig! It'll change your lives and be so fun!
Congratulations to the 3 of you , here’s to many joyful years ahead.
Congratulations Craig and to Ayumi lucky new arrival is picking up some great genes there, hope Ayumi is travelling well all the best.
Really appreciate the kind words guys. Can't wait to show her the world. New adventure buddy.
Craig
I have two wonderful daughters that both stopped listening to me aged 7 .
Both are almost opposites so don’t have any advice for U .
I did learn a baby crying is not like an adult .
They are so fn smart , they can’t talk so they use crying to order U around .
Bon Chance
Congrats Craig,
I can recommend raising your child to be bilingual if that's on the cards for you.
All the best.
Great news...no secrets here...thanx for sharing the stoke...cheer squad just grew bigger.
Cheers udo...pure magic!
Can count on swellnet crew to somewhat controversially further embarrass our loving soulmates.
Be our pleasure Craig...here's a 1974 smoothie to kick along yer adventure! Ouch!
Congratulations to you both Craig.
Life is about to become much more interesting to say the least. And if you burst into tears at the birth, I can assure you its completely normal!!!
Enjoy every minute, as it passes by far too quickly.
I can clearly remember the day our kids were born, as if it were yesterday. My son is now 41 and my daughter is 43.
Best Wishes.
Fantastic news Craig. When my daughter was born, XXXX were having a promotional for new dads with every six pack of beer sold. I don't drink the stuff, but the promo pack came with disposable gloves, ear plugs and a face mask. Best promo pack ever!
Welcome to your new life. All the best.
TBB
Some guys for some reason think their wife would like to listen to music while waiting to have a nice baby .
Yes , really they have NFI lol
In birthing rooms the DO provide a Sound System for this strange behaviour imo .
As my first daughter decided to take her time coming out (45 hours ) I checked the sound system and some guy had forgotten to take the disc home .
I checked with the Mrs ( who was on gas at this stage ) IF I could hit play .
She said YES and Having My Baby, came on .
I don’t lie :)
We both broke out laughing .
Baby Classes are a nightmare imo .
These types ask stupid questions , like should I make a disc of fn birthing songs ffs .
I did One , and got my mother in law to go to the other 7 . Signed her up as a support , support person .
Very handy , she cut the cord ( I was in the non business area ) .
Huge congrats to you and the *family* Craig.
Fantastic New Years news.
An incomparable and hugely rewarding adventure is in front of you all!
Having a baby is a personal choice between the people involved .
We had a wonderful Jewish Doctor my wife chose .
We had 4 or 5 sifts of wonderful midwives ( all thought it would be a Caesar ) .
The Doctor was IN control the whole time .
While both the baby and mum in NO immediate danger , he just waited and waited .
When finally , he looked at us and said , “ok , now We Go “.
It took 5 minutes !
I must admit , I thought humans had evolved a bad way to have a baby .
Very difficult imho .
Storks delivery is and sounds better lol
Yeah that's the plan CMC!
Haha thanks Pete and nice words SD and TBB.
Cheers Etarip, everyone says it's the best thing ever.
I’m late to this party, big congrats Craig and Ayumi. Truly the best thing ever. Our babies are 20 and 23, still loving every moment. Enjoy.
Congratulations Craig and Ayumi. Children will change your life. Make the most of the experience.
Good news always trumps bad. 2 happy dogs is good news for me. The young and the old.
And not long now Craig. Wishing you guys all the best!
anyone in the illawarra, or who has driven through pomborneit, or grew up watching all creatures great and small..
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-30/restoring-heritage-dry-stone-wal…
^^^^ Enjoy driving up the Jamberoo valley and seeing them. There's a bunch of them on the other side of Saddleback Mountain too, when you head into Kangaroo Valley from Berry. Most likely built by the same immigrants.
Though they're not built with quite the same care, we've found lots of retaining walls built the same way up in the bush behind us. Some high, some long, all very old, built when the mines went in, so close to 150 years old.
Not sure council or heritage department even know they're there so they receive informal protection from local MTBers.
Yesterday was one year since my last big injury - touch wood.
Lot of people told me my memory would return but I still can't remember very much of the day, just fleeting, indistinct visions. Have had hypnotherapy and the like suggested but I'm not sure about it. Curious as I am, a part of me trusts my innate self-preservation instinct and thinks that perhaps it's been wiped from memory for a reason.
Body feels good and it feels like a milestone has passed.
You may have been dead for a few seconds….it happened to my good friend only he hit a car on a motor bike head on…
I was there and he was dead for a few seconds maybe a minute and then just restarted.
He hadn’t been dead long enough for his spirit to leave so just a big blank was left in his mind….remembers nothing. Forget hypnosis , it’ll just mess you up.
It is what it is and you have a second chance…..embrace it wisely.
Gday Stu been meaning to ask you about the latest thinking on the big off and whether you’re back on the bike, seems all is good. Good news!
Typical misinformed comment about hypnosis ^^^ probably based on the misconception about not being aware or present, same bias seems to apply against meditation amongst the god bothering fraternity.
Optimist wrote:
You may have been dead for a few seconds….it happened to my good friend only he hit a car on a motor bike head on…
I was there and he was dead for a few seconds maybe a minute and then just restarted.
He hadn’t been dead long enough for his spirit to leave so just a big blank was left in his mind….remembers nothing. Forget hypnosis , it’ll just mess you up.
It is what it is and you have a second chance…..embrace it wisely.
Perhaps. I was found beside the track unmoving and unconscious, yet at times throughout the rescue I apparently regained consciousness, yet I don't remember it. Story goes that I asked the lady who found me for painkillers enough times that she "was gonna thump me".
Don't recall that at all.
At the bottom of the mountain I apparently called out my son's name a few times so they sent him over to talk to me, but I then didn't respond. An unsettling vision.
A few Swellnet users will be aware of the other MTBer who crashed around the same time I did, but whose situation turned catastrophic earlier this year. Been thinking of him and his family a lot lately.
And yeah, I guess embracing a second chance while wondering why my situation turned out differently.
GuySmiley wrote:
Gday Stu been meaning to ask you about the latest thinking on the big off and whether you’re back on the bike, seems all is good. Good news!
Typical misinformed comment about hypnosis ^^^ probably based on the misconception about not being aware or present, same bias seems to apply against meditation amongst the god bothering fraternity.
I had got back on the bike, very cautiously, but oddly my courage didn't build up the more I rode but slowly ebbed away. I haven't been on the bike for months; not sure when I will again.
Not sure what to believe RE hypnosis. It's only my own curiousity that wants to know what happened, and hence get hypotised and hopefully uncover something, but an equally strong part of me says the memory is wiped for a reason. It hasn't happened 'accidentally' but is a neurological process.
my 2 cents @stu, I agree with you, minds know what they are doing, way beyond our ken, don't mess with them, they are as fragile as they are robust.. maybe it'd help to transfer the curiosity into wondering if memory will return naturally in years to come.
@Stu What is the last thing you remember? You don’t remember what happened that lead to the crash?
Ha ha...
Last concrete memory was about twenty minutes before the crash. Stopping at a junction with my son and his mate.
Then I have a very vague sense - not even a memory - of regret followed by extreme violence. It's more feeling than anything else. There's no associated image, sound, or smell, of the kind that might accompany other memories.
I vaguely recall asking (pleading) at my rescuer for painkillers.
I also vaguely recall people screaming then a feeling of dirt on my cheek and opening my eyes to be face first on the ground but couldn't move (explained to me later that I fell out of the rescue cart while still bound up in a spinal collar - they thought I'd broken my neck)
First concrete memory back in the living was the sound and pressure change of nearby rotor blades and a fella telling me I'd had an accident. Realised then that the 'visions' I'd been having weren't dreams, something had happened to me, and the weight of realising that whatever it was I was shortly going to have to deal with it.
Not much to work with.
Shit! It’s amazing that that much memory before the incident is missing. It will be interesting to see what memories return overtime or not.
seeds wrote:
Shit! It’s amazing that that much memory before the incident is missing. It will be interesting to see what memories return overtime or not.
I've read the rescue report, which included photos of the section of track where I was found, watched YouTube vids of people riding the whole track, and there's not a flicker of recognition.
All up it's about five hours of time erased.
Well, not 'erased' but not currently available for playback.
Stu
My two bobs worth .
U knocked the Shit out of yourself and were a very lucky chap , 4 sure !
Whatever happened 2 U , severe concussion , WAS involved .
I was knocked a bit Ga Ga , apparently , 4 a minute or two on a footy field , a couple of times .
The side affects did linger , I now realise ( still a bit Ga Ga haha ) .
We just ignored the side affects then , BUT Concussion is much better understood , now .
Angus Brayshaw just retired from football , as a precaution .
He was not happy leaving the Dee's , one short , for the the Whole year .
He did the right thing , of course .
You sounded as though U were in a bloody Car Crash !
I have NO interest in knowing , what I was thinking about , during the minute or so , my Lights were turned off .
So , B careful young fella !
Hey Stu, when 14 I blacked out going down biggest hill in suburb on a bike, a hill I'd done many times before. Memory of before the fall was gone, first thing I remember is being on the grass at the house at the bottom of the hill all busted up with others helping. Seems similar - these days I just accept that I don't have memory going into, or of it happening. Brain still works.
Dedicated to good news ....