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Away and home
Posted on July 31, 2022 | No CommentsSteve 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 […] -
Party, Work, Rest, Party
Posted on June 26, 2022 | No CommentsTwelve 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 […] -
Emerging voices
Posted on May 29, 2022 | No CommentsLara 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 […] -
These precious days
Posted on April 24, 2022 | No CommentsWarning – 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 […] -
On the move
Posted on March 27, 2022 | No CommentsWe 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. […] -
New beginnings
Posted on February 27, 2022 | No CommentsI 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 […] -
Sadness and joy
Posted on December 25, 2021 | No CommentsThe 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 […] -
Dad is 70!
Posted on November 28, 2021 | No CommentsDad 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 […] -
Further afield
Posted on October 31, 2021 | No CommentsThis 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 […] -
Family, food and flowers
Posted on September 26, 2021 | No CommentsIt’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 […]