From Paris to Parenthood

I have been enjoying a couple of new podcasts recently. The first is called Read This, with interviews of writers, many of them Australian. The second is Wiser than Me […]

Steve’s 60th was months in the making: his family and I took about 50 text messages to find a weekend that everyone was able to travel up and surprise him; […]

Before I start a six-month secondment, I’ve had a break from work for three-and-a-half weeks. I started with four days in Noosa enjoying the beach, restaurants, company of my parents, […]

These school holidays, towards the end of our two-week stay with Steve’s mum in Melbourne, we had a night with Jessie at her acre block just outside Warragul. We hadn’t […]

   In the depths of winter, the girls had their individual sleepover birthday parties, sandwiched by the family afternoon tea. The organizing and catering were less demanding for me given […]

Just two weeks after having been there for our holiday, we drove to Melbourne for the weekend for  Jarrah (my first cousin once removed) and his fiancé’ Chelsea’s engagement party/ […]

After our family pilgrimage to dad’s hometown of Ballarat in 2019, we all first planned to visit mum’s childhood hometown of Sea Lake back in 2020, and then 2021 and […]

Lara: ‘We got up at 8 or 9 to go to Sydney and we got to Kay and Toni’s house at 12 ‘cause we were getting ready there while mum […]