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My skin is bare and chilled. My toes are warm in slippers. I am sitting at the dinner table in the silent dark looking into the research blog. It is brimming with nests . (In this chapter) I am looking in to remember the disruptive, creative practice of blogging with the words space, place , body as my frame. I will speak about my how research has generated a new sense of sustenance in life for me, blurring the space between me and the place I live, through the creative disruptions of blogging .

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Notes

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    Vivi’s knitted birth blessing baby blanket (wool, 2015) was made with various women (see Acknowledgements), Sarah Crinall.

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    Bodyplaceblogposts are largely published without editing. See ‘A Note’ section for more information.

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    A felted nest made with raw sheep’s wool in 2015, Sarah Crinall.

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    2018.

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    Western Port Unknown ii (oil on canvas, pre-2011), Robyn Carter, published with permission.

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    Western Port Unknown iii (oil on canvas, pre-2011), Robyn Carter, published with permission.

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    Western Port Unknown iv (oil on canvas, pre-2011), Robyn Carter, published with permission.

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    Western Port Unknown i (oil on canvas, pre-2011), Robyn Carter, published with permission.

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    A collection of matter in the toilet gathered from 2000-onward, Sarah Crinall.

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    The collection of matter in the toilet gathered from 2000-onward, Sarah Crinall

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    The collection of matter in the toilet gathered from 2000-onward, Sarah Crinall.

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    A fallen nest on some cedar from the barn made in 2015, Sarah Crinall.

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    A nest made with nan’s textiles and garden materials in 2011, Sarah Crinall.

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    ‘Watch out dad, I’m taking a photo for the book of the shearwater here’ (Photograph, 2018), Edith Maree Crinall Rowbottom, published with permission.

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Crinall, S. (2019). Nests. In: Sustaining Childhood Natures. Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3007-0_5

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