Parenthood Archive

  • Steve and I worked in Melbourne while the girls flaked out in the house during the first week of the school holidays. Steve took them out to an indoor play […]

    Away and home

    Steve and I worked in Melbourne while the girls flaked out in the house during the first week of the school holidays. Steve took them out to an indoor play […]

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  • Twelve years ago since that equally cold, grey day when the girls were born, it doesn’t seem like that long. The great excitement as usual of opening large packages, so […]

    Party, Work, Rest, Party

    Twelve years ago since that equally cold, grey day when the girls were born, it doesn’t seem like that long. The great excitement as usual of opening large packages, so […]

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  • Lara and Rhea are preparing for a Rostrum speech that they will deliver next week – Rhea on the subject of Teamwork and Lara on Being Organised. Lara is practicing […]

    Emerging voices

    Lara and Rhea are preparing for a Rostrum speech that they will deliver next week – Rhea on the subject of Teamwork and Lara on Being Organised. Lara is practicing […]

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  • Warning – this contains discussion of suicide. ‘These precious days’ is the name of a book of short stories that I decadently splashed out on from a lovely bookshop by […]

    These precious days

    Warning – this contains discussion of suicide. ‘These precious days’ is the name of a book of short stories that I decadently splashed out on from a lovely bookshop by […]

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  • We have been sorting and packing with increasing intensity over recent weeks, leading up to spending nearly all of the productive parts of the days sorting and packing this weekend. […]

    On the move

    We have been sorting and packing with increasing intensity over recent weeks, leading up to spending nearly all of the productive parts of the days sorting and packing this weekend. […]

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  • I got a call from Duncan yesterday to say that his and Becky’s baby has been born! A very cuddly, peaceful-looking, good sized boy. The girls are overjoyed. When asked […]

    New beginnings

    I got a call from Duncan yesterday to say that his and Becky’s baby has been born! A very cuddly, peaceful-looking, good sized boy. The girls are overjoyed. When asked […]

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  • The end of a strange year of restrictions for a couple of months, busy at work, wet weather, a quick trip by plane to Melbourne for niece Ellie’s 21st, I […]

    Sadness and joy

    The end of a strange year of restrictions for a couple of months, busy at work, wet weather, a quick trip by plane to Melbourne for niece Ellie’s 21st, I […]

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  • 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 […]

    Dad is 70!

    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 […]

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  • 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 […]

    Further afield

    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 […]

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  • 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 […]

    Family, food and flowers

    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 […]

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