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Winter holidays. Yay!*
Posted on July 27, 2014 | No CommentsWinter holidays. Boy, was I due for them! I’d been flat out at work – no time for a lunch break in three weeks, then the girls developed successive viruses […] -
Four birthdays
Posted on June 29, 2014 | No CommentsIt has started. Birthday party invitations. Birthday party weekends. The first one was about a month ago. Another little blond haired, blue eyed girl from the girls’ preschool, Kirsten, was […] -
A few whiles ago
Posted on May 25, 2014 | No CommentsMonday Morning: Steve: ‘OK darlings, would you like to get dressed now? It’s time to get ready for preschool.’ Lara: ‘No! Don’t want to get dressed! I’m eating my bweakfast.’ […] -
Easter interlude
Posted on April 27, 2014 | No CommentsAutumn, and a week off between Easter and Anzac Day. Back to Steve’s family’s holiday house via a day-long drive, with busy activities with all the cousins. After the adults […] -
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Posted on March 30, 2014 | No CommentsI’ve been reading a few books recently. The first by Susan Cain, Quiet: The power of introverts in a world that can’t stop talking is about how the cult of […] -
Big
Posted on February 23, 2014 | No CommentsFebruary, and our land is bleached, torched, scorched. Heatwaves longer and hotter than last year fill our days and nights. Our plans revolve around escaping the heat into air-conditioned buildings, […] -
Frolicking
Posted on January 26, 2014 | No Comments‘Would you kids shut up! We’re trying to sleep!’ I was about 10 years old and my brother and sister and I had arrived earlier that day at my uncle’s […] -
Titty! Titty!
Posted on December 28, 2013 | No CommentsRhea and Lara have ticked off some milestones this year: they were weaned at 32 months; they are completely toilet trained (just the odd accident during the day); they felt […] -
Tea and cake at 40
Posted on November 24, 2013 | No CommentsTwenty years ago, in February 1993, my grandmother made some apple jelly. I found it at the back of our pantry when I was cleaning it the other day, unambiguously […] -
A tent, an esky and a hammock
Posted on October 27, 2013 | No CommentsFollowing a ten day survival experience that was compulsory in Year 9, my friends and I became keen hikers and I continued this hobby during my university years. Out of […]