Girls Archive

  • 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 […]

    Two lunches and a dinner

    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 […]

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  • 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 […]

    March

    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 […]

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  • 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 […]

    Busying ourselves at season’s end

    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 […]

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  • I like sleeping with one of the smaller humans. One sleeps in a big room with a fluffy rug and a tunnel in it on top of my pink chair, […]

    Adventures in suburbia

    I like sleeping with one of the smaller humans. One sleeps in a big room with a fluffy rug and a tunnel in it on top of my pink chair, […]

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  • A quick look back as we head down the home straight of the year. Despite my weariness, I only took one day off during these recent school holidays, but we […]

    Star gazing

    A quick look back as we head down the home straight of the year. Despite my weariness, I only took one day off during these recent school holidays, but we […]

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  • I’m not sure what prompted me to ask my friend if I could borrow her book, Scott Pape’s The Barefoot Investor, about taking control over your household budget, but I […]

    Freedom

    I’m not sure what prompted me to ask my friend if I could borrow her book, Scott Pape’s The Barefoot Investor, about taking control over your household budget, but I […]

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  • Lucky us, we managed to get away for a couple of days – weekdays! – to the snow. We stayed at a lovely freestanding ‘eco lodge’ just outside of Thredbo’, […]

    Skiing interlude

    Lucky us, we managed to get away for a couple of days – weekdays! – to the snow. We stayed at a lovely freestanding ‘eco lodge’ just outside of Thredbo’, […]

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  • Holidays. As Leigh Sales also mentioned that she was feeling in her latest podcast, I was really hanging out for them. We had planned our decompression in three chapters: a […]

    Night and Day

    Holidays. As Leigh Sales also mentioned that she was feeling in her latest podcast, I was really hanging out for them. We had planned our decompression in three chapters: a […]

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  • The month of the girls’ tenth birthday is drawing to a close, and with it the weeks of its celebration, like an Indian wedding. Rhea was thoughtful about the milestone, […]

    Ten

    The month of the girls’ tenth birthday is drawing to a close, and with it the weeks of its celebration, like an Indian wedding. Rhea was thoughtful about the milestone, […]

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  • It was an unusual Mothers’ Day this year. We usually go out for lunch with all of my siblings who are around and our parents and children. There was none […]

    May meanderings

    It was an unusual Mothers’ Day this year. We usually go out for lunch with all of my siblings who are around and our parents and children. There was none […]

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