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lifeasdaddy - Stay At Home Dads interviewed on ABC radio today.

2BL 702's Richard Fidler interviewed 3 Stay At Home Dads during his Conversation Hour today.

I caught the last 15 minutes, and it seemed like a good interview, much of the stuff true to my experience of this job too.  Except I rarely write about the negative parts of being a Stay At Home Dad on this blog.

The podcast is not yet available, but the link should appear here in the next couple of days.  And I'll listen to the other 45 minutes too.

Added:  The interview notes are up, and you can follow that link to the podcast too.

lifeasdaddy - So. What do you do all day?

RebelDad pointed me to this very accurate take  by Carolun Hax on what a stay at home parent does all day.

A snippet:

It's doing all this while concurrently teaching virtually everything -- language, manners, safety, resourcefulness, discipline, curiosity, creativity. Empathy. Everything

Yep.

lifeasdaddy - Various links

The High Price of Creating Free Ads.  - US advertisers find pitfalls in using consumer generated content.

A Mesmerising Museum building in the Netherlands. - The Netherlands Insitute for Sound and Vision.

What to do in Moscow. - Going there?  check out this list.

Facebook founder Chris Hughes helps Obama with social network campaigning.

UK companies with women at the top perform better.

lifeasdaddy - Cemeteries as tourist destinations.

Interesting NY times story about happenings in the world of cemeteries.

- Titanic dinners.

- Dog parades.

- Jazz concerts.

"We're rebranding ourselves as a heritage tourism destination."

and this:

Forest Lawn in Buffalo spent $1.2 million to erect the Blue Sky mausoleum, a spare design by Frank Lloyd Wright, with 24 crypts from $125,000 to $300,000. Each crypt-owner will receive a Steuben glass sculpture of their eternal home-in-waiting. “It’s about exclusivity,” Mr. Dispenza of Forest Lawn said. “It’s about being one of the 24.”

See more about Wright's Blue Sky Mausoleum here.   It was designed in 1928 and built in 2004. 

lifeasdaddy - Guest workers. Prof Rodrik's view: They're a good thing.

Professor Dani Rodrik has some positive things to say about guest workers in the USA in response to a New York Times editorial.

Guest workers are discussed at length here in Australia from time to time.

lifeasdaddy - "People don't quit jobs, they Quit Managers"

^ According to David McMillan, in this blog post about the labor shortage in the hospitality industry.

Read the whole thing here, which also includes his 10 point international action plan.

lifeasdaddy - Maxine McKew's fundraiser

According to Trevor Cook, there was an intresting roll call at Maxine McKew's  campaign fundraiser last night.

lifeasdaddy - Bed & Breakfast in a Frank Lloyd Wright marvel?

Fancy staying overnight in a Frank Lloyd Wright house?  The Muirhead Farmhouse has surely got to be unique in the B&B category.

I love the style of their website too. 

How do I know about it?  Because Terry Teachout told me so.

[ Added:  Mr. Teachout also mentions 4 other Frank Lloyd Wright houses in which you may spend the night here. ]

lifeasdaddy - HMAS Shropshire. Part 6: Siebe Gorman diving suit and helmet

In this rare photograph one of HMAS Shropshire's divers is wearing Siebe Gorman diving gear circa 1944. 

(Thanks to Mac Gregory for the identification of the equipment manufacturer.)

Siebe Gorman were the preeminent diving equipment makers of the day, and they made a range of different diving helmets which may be basically identified by the number of bolts used to attach the helmet to the collar of the suit.

The helmet pictured here is a 6 bolt helmet, and more information about it can be found here.

You can read about the Siebe Gorman company and their full range of helmets here.  The company is now defunct and their products are much sought after by collectors.

For a better view of this type of helmet and suit, here is a modern photograph of WO Glenn Spilsted OAM wearing a 50-year old Siebe Gorman standard diving suit, together with the modern equivalent Mk 27 diving suit worn by WO Eric Johansen.  This is the NAVY news article which was attached to the photograph.  Here's another charming NAVY news item about the same Siebe Gorman suit, which obviously gets a run on special occasions.

{ The photograph of HMAS Shropshire's diver is from a private collection and may not be published elsewhere without the express permission of the author of this blog.  Enquire to lifeasaddy  <at > gmail dot com   }

lifeasdaddy - An inexpensive pretend fire fighting toy.

Edward's aunt, Lauren, gave him a spray bottle for play in the swimming pool.  He and his cousins had lots of harmless fun spraying water at each other.  Ed has now found another use for it, and that's putting out imaginary fires.

Good fun, and an inexpensive toy when coupled with the power of imagination.