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- After extensive travel for short periods both inside Australia and overseas, I took a break from my health policy job to travel for two months in Spain, Portugal and Morocco and live for four months in France, three of those in Paris. I'm currently living back in Australia with Steve and our twins Rhea and Lara.
![Dad turned seventy this week. As Lara said in the joke she found, what goes up but never down? Your age. We marked the occasion with a dinner at a […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/IMG_5698-115x115.jpg "Dad is 70!")
![This weekend things have opened out, and we made the most of it. With our town’s vaccination rate at over 90% for two doses and 95% for one, we are […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/leaves-Oct2021-115x115.jpg "Further afield")
![It’s the sixth week of quarantine/ lockdown. It’s been a good distraction to be so busy at work. The girls have enjoyed the relaxed timeframes with just a zoom lesson […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/garden-115x115.jpeg "Family, food and flowers")
![We had one day at Thredbo of our planned five, and then had to return home because there had been a COVID case in our town so Thredbo didn’t want […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/front-garden-1-1-115x115.jpg "Quarantine diary")
![Middle of winter, bleak and cold: the daytime temperature here has ranged from 6 to 11 degrees. Tokyo 2020 is a welcome distraction from the cold, the grind and the […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/gymnastics-IMG_5506-1-115x115.jpg "Tokyo 2020")
![This year, the girls’ birthday coincided with the first day of their school camp. Rhea: When we went to camp, we went on a bus for three and a half […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG_5374-2-115x115.jpg "Year Five Camp")
![Perhaps partly in response to the uncontrollable sneezing I’ve had for a couple of months, and partly because I got up to the next book in my pile, Marie Condo’s […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/afternoon-tea-115x115.jpg "Domestic work and play")
![We had two good lunches and an impressive dinner this month. The first lunch was in regional Victoria: a restaurant called Brae, which featured fresh produce grown on site, seasonal […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/salad-braeIMG_5093-115x115.jpg "Two lunches and a dinner")
![The mood is changing around the country, and following on from the international and national Black Lives Matter and Me Too movements, what has been acceptable or hidden now is […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/rally-IMG_5038-115x115.jpg "March")
![Summer is ending. This weekend there was a burst of warmth, perhaps the last one. The girls and I had brunch with Helen and Sophia, now aged two with beautiful […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IMG_4971-garden-115x115.jpg "Busying ourselves at season’s end")