Newcastle flood

Newcastle flood
Originally uploaded by jvx2

This photo brings back memories of the 2007 flooding in Newcastle. I remember the day well. I was on maternity leave with my then 6 week old daughter. My husband was home too since he couldn't work in the rain (he has a Jim's mowing Business). I thought it was just a normal storm coming and i decided i wanted to go to the shops to get out of the house for a bit. I left my baby and husband at home. I went in to Kmart and was looking around and water started leaking through the roof into the shop. Staff came running. I had finished shopping and went out to the car. It was pouring with rain. Driving home i started to realise whilst i had been shopping their had been a huge downpour causing flooding!!!!!!! I didn't know till part of the way home when i saw cars driving so slowly and traffic being redirected. I managed to get home. I saw my husband outside checking out the situation with water upto his ankle or calfmuscle.! Fortunatley the water slowly subsided. We could have been a lot worse off. To think we had been trying to organise improving our drainage around the house a few weeks earlier. At least it is done now. Newcastle had more flooding just the other day

ChickLit

ChickLit
Originally uploaded by kiltedlibrarian

Well it is good to see that other people are interested in Chicklit too. This looks like a little display was created at a library. I think i like chicklit because it is easy to read and usually happy. It is a modern day setting so i guess i can relate to it. I finally loaded up a photo from Flickr. Will have to try another one i think for practice

Week 1: Learning to Blog

Well this is my first blog i have created. I have used the Information Services Blog before to find out what is going on in the library and it is a good way of communicating between the different branches about events within a library, new procedures, research tips etc. I am a frequent user of Facebook so am familiar with that aspect of Web 2.o. I use facebook to stay in contact with friends and we can communicate to each other what we have been up to. I am also a frequent user of messenger.