30 more people I know

The 15th of 30 lists of 30 things.


1. The one who gives me sage advice about my teenage son.

2. The one to whom I gave 7 baby guinea pigs.

3. The one who can rearrange people’s skull bones and other feats of healing magic.

4. The one who had the most glamorous post-baby shot in the local newspaper that I have ever seen.

5. The one who owns lots of buses.

6. The one who has a daughter that, at 3, looked exactly like I looked at 3, yet we are not at all related.

7. The man I call ‘my boy’.

8. The one who is a glorious silk painter.

9. The one who presented at an eco-village discussion night many years ago, resulting in us moving to Margaret River.

10. The one who has a laminated camping check-list itemized by where it packs into the vehicle.

11. The one who is equally skilled as a woodworker and a scientist.

12. The one who has to buy 13 dance costumes for her daughter for this year’s dance finale concert.

13. The one who plays fiddle like a dream and looks just like her Mum when she was young.

14. The one who breeds Labradoodles.

15. The one who attaches expensive cameras to kite strings and accidentally smashes them or drops them into the ocean.

16. The one who talked her daughter out of naming their new puppy ‘Dorothy the Dinosaur Dog’.

17. The one who still remembers, after all these years, that I put the wrong detergent into the dishwasher at CSIRO, and filled the lab with foam.

18. The one who is studying psychology and has a goodly supply of wine for when the going gets tough.

19. The one who can remember how every fiddle tune starts.

20. The one who, with his wife, ran around stark naked with me to make a video for YouTube that has had nearly one million hits.

21. The one who became a projectionist after a discussion we had, whilst I was naked, in his physiotherapy room.

22. The one who cuts his firewood with a circular saw every night.

23. The one who has drawers in her kitchen where everybody else just has kickboards.

24. The one who helped his son put together his new off-road unicycle.

25. The one who can sing like a magpie even better than some magpies.

26. The one who built his own boat.

27. The one who went up to the big city and forgot that it was his turn to show the movie at our volunteer-run cinema.

28. The one who I met when our children were boyfriend and girlfriend.

29. The one who wants her daughter to cooperate in photos.

30. The one who has a red collection.