Blog On Cairns 3

What are your fellow Cairns bloggers up to? This is now the third Blog On Cairns Carnival and this week we have two new Cairns blogs added to the list. Read our Carnival to catch up with the old and new Cairns bloggers and those who haven’t drowned in the sea of blogs and have managed to update their blogs since last weekend’s Carnival:

Cairns Bloggers

AGT.ID.AU Cairns Australia: Given the winds of late, our fishing lover come land landed, Andrew, is convinced that God hates him. The seven day wave and wind forecast fails to fill Andrew with adoration and Hallelujahs! Andrew is one of our newest bloggers on the list although his blog is not brand new. I found Andrew via Entrecard. For those who are struggling to attract traffic or to decide on a social network to join, I recommend you check out Entrecard.

Andrew Griffiths: A serious and regular blogger, Andrew is both a world renown marketing guru and the Ambassador for the old Abused Child Trust, no called Act for Kids. In The grass is always greener or is it? Andrew nicely points toward internal motivation and belief but most importantly, self reflection. Imagine something you love in your job now. Now intensify that 100%. Is it still as pleasurable or are the costs associated with it too great? Andrew picks travel and key note speaking as his love. With that comes airport waits, motels, bad coffee and being surrounded by people who all want just a tiny piece of your time. Meanwhile, the ones you want to spend maximum time with are at home, cursing missing you.

Berry Baby: Are you familiar with Shannon’s designer nappies? I bought Jade and Amelie the part time pack. Adorable and environmentally friendly, I encourage all to look at Shannon’s Berry Baby products. In Nappy Hunt on again, Shannon encourages Mum run small business supporting other Mum run businesses:

The hunt is such a wonderful way for small businesses operated by mums to show off their fabulous products. It’s great to support other mums as well, so that we can all earn an income while raising our children. I have donated a bottle of Berry Safe Insect Repellent and a jar of Baby Bottom Balm as part of the huge prize packs on offer.

I love the idea Shannon. How can I participate?

Big Little Sister: After Melody and Lyndon’s traumatic few weeks after losing their baby, Melody claims that she is finally Getting There. The job offer has been accepted and the Cairns family is moving to Abu Dhabi. The beauty of blogging though is that Melody will never be far from any of us.

Birdwing Therapies: What a fantastic training in Strengths Based practice Birdwing put on last week: What a week for Birdwing and Imaginif. Attended by 27 local practitioners, a trainer from Victoria came up and imparted both the theory and practice of Strengths Based client work. If anyone is wanting to purchase any of the St Luke’s resources, Keran has them at Birdwing Therapies and can order up at any time when stocks begin to deplete (like they have after this recent training.)

Cairns Blog.net: Is Australia in Jail? Is Big Brother going too far and regulating our every hop? A new cartoon for the Cairns Blog, the skippy metaphore is far different to the Skippy pleasure of my youth. What do you think of this: CairnsBlog cartoon by Circusmouse

Cairns Great Barrier Reef Diving: The other new Cairns Blog on the Carnival, this one has FANTASTIC underwater pics of trainee divers.  We live in such a beautiful place of the world and diving on the Great Barrier Reef is undisputedly a tourist attraction, why not blog it and attract more tourists to our wonderland. Check out Small world at Great Barrier Reef. OMG! I love this place. This blog is also a member of entrecard. If you other bloggers want to be found, get onto Entrecard.

Cairns Unlimited: Maria and Steve are going to Spain (Maria’s country) for Christmas and are on the hunt for interesting and local pressies. Where better to head than the Port Douglas Markets. Goodness me, there must have been more Cairnsites than tourists at the markets because many of my friends also headed to Port Douglas for the weekend…all beginning their Christmas Shopping.

Have camera will travel: Paul flicks us all a Photo Project:

When you travel, try keeping your eye out for a single subject that you can photograph. It can be anything you like but photograph them wherever you go.

What a great way to under whelm yourself when wondering what is important for the scrap book album.  I would choose signs of a healthy community focused on child protection. What a great way to display the cultural differences in the value of children. I am glad to report Paul that my photography is finally improving. Your blogged words about tripods and setting up the shot helped me greatly….as does breathing! When I hold by breath to stay still, I shake more!!!!

Imaginif…child protection became serious business: I’ve had a week of training. I facilitated a BITSS of protective play training for Child Protection Week, attended Birdwing’s Strengths Based training (it was here at Imaginif) and then met with Child Safety Staff in Innisfail to explain our new wrap around, therapeutic case management model for families in the statutory system. This coming week I am off to NPA for three days (training women’s groups) and some face to face work). My husband is heading to Coen and my poor Boy is wondering why he ever had parents! Lucky I’ve got the odd strength of conviction tucked up my sleeve!

Jean Burman (artist): Are you all still there? In Big bang goes pop, Jean helps to clear up the matter mess. Not a body part mess or a garden mess. Neither is it a star and planet mess. Just the mess created by the big boys when they pull out their big toys. If only homelessness and child abuse could have a fraction of the research money spent on mass mess for Chris mess!

Nicky Jurd: I have a Precious Book [her eyes dart up and to the right as she hears, "My precious" being whispered in her head] into which goes all of my passwords and website details. The book is the creator of many arguments in our house – “Where’s my precious book!” I often call out scream to the boys!!!!!!!! A beautiful and gold edged book, it really is a VERY IMPORTANT piece of my online life. In Your Website Essentials File, Nicky encourages each of you to create a similar Precious Book and she tells you exactly what you need to keep track of. A book, a file, pieces of paper in the safe; it matters not how you keep your web site details, just be sure you do keep them all and can lay your fingers on them at a moment’s need.

Teddy Tour: Do not forget to come on the Cairns Teddy Tour with us. The Teddies wearing their little story tags are indeed a powerful and moving experience of change. If you are thinking that you are safe from potential sexual assaults in Cairns then think again. Cairns has high rates of reported sexual assault and a large number of people living in our beautiful city who are recovering from the affects of sexual assault. Do you know anyone who might like to fill in a confidential story tag so that their survival is given a voice.

That’s it till next week. If you would like to host an edition of Blog On Cairns, give me a hoy via my contact form. It simply involves collating and commenting on the most recent posts of those on the Cairns Bloggers list. Please, if you know of any Cairns bloggers, can you flick me their details so that I can add them to the list. You can help out fellow bloggers infiltrate the blogosphere by link, link, linking to Cairns Bloggers, just as I have linked to all of you.