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on June 14, 2010

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Cupcakes and a little philosophy

New cupcake successfully attempted, see picture on CC page. Recipe and ingredients list didn't match but luckily I love a challenge and pulled it off with an Easter Nest Special. On another note, I spent the morning reconsidering Christopher Boorse and his thoughts on illness and disease with their associated moral attachments. Although he wrote this in (1975), 20 years after Talcott Parsons I think that he was essentially saying the same thing, and much more of course. Boorse (1975) suggested that a disease must have 3 distinct properties to be an illness - it is serious enough to be incapacitating so 1) it is undesirable for it's bearer 2) it is a title to special treatment and 3) it is a valid excuse for normally critisisable behaviour (Boorse 1975 p61). The last point reminds me of Parson's seminal sick role of course, which, I think is still a useful notions despite being considered outdated by some. There is still and expectation to try to get be

Fantasy and outback

Paronella Park (powered site tours and included) is the now crumbling realisation of one man’s fantasy - or dream really. Jose Paronella - baker, dreamer, tax dodger, exceedingly hard worker, inventor, creator - was a man driven to create a legacy and to build something amazing .... and he did. Despite catastrophic floods, devastating cyclones and the shift of the Bruce Highway taking the passing traffic past other places, Paronella Park survives and should be visited because there is romance and magic here. It is also a wonderful product of serendipity. Left to its return to the rainforest with the homemade concrete used to build the castles decaying and crumbling and the vines and forest reclaiming their space - a couple of travellers arrived looking for a caravan park to buy. So they did and left guests to wander among the ruins. One day, Jose’s daughter Theresa came to the door and asked if the couple would be interested in knowing about the history beneath the crumbling castl

First words ....

Well, here I am ... procrastinating and creating a blog instead of studying or working. I am a lecturer in cancer and haematology nursing and a (soon to be ex )PhD student, living in Camden, NSW and working in Sydney - or maybe living and working in Sydney and sleeping in Camden? This is my first blog and it feels kind of cathartic just typing these initial words!

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