![I have been enjoying a couple of new podcasts recently. The first is called Read This, with interviews of writers, many of them Australian. The second is Wiser than Me […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/IMG_9245-640x250.jpg "Listening to them")
![Steve’s 60th was months in the making: his family and I took about 50 text messages to find a weekend that everyone was able to travel up and surprise him; […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/PHOTO-2024-09-01-21-41-07-640x250.jpg "Sixty")
![Before I start a six-month secondment, I’ve had a break from work for three-and-a-half weeks. I started with four days in Noosa enjoying the beach, restaurants, company of my parents, […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/IMG_9119-3-476x250.jpg "Winterlude")
![These school holidays, towards the end of our two-week stay with Steve’s mum in Melbourne, we had a night with Jessie at her acre block just outside Warragul. We hadn’t […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/IMG_8946-1-455x250.jpg "Family and community")
![In the depths of winter, the girls had their individual sleepover birthday parties, sandwiched by the family afternoon tea. The organizing and catering were less demanding for me given […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/rocks-Lara-E-K-IMG_8902-469x250.jpg "Covering some ground")
![Just two weeks after having been there for our holiday, we drove to Melbourne for the weekend for Jarrah (my first cousin once removed) and his fiancé’ Chelsea’s engagement party/ […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_8809-2.jpg "Engaged")
![After our family pilgrimage to dad’s hometown of Ballarat in 2019, we all first planned to visit mum’s childhood hometown of Sea Lake back in 2020, and then 2021 and […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IMG_8650-McLennan-sign-640x250.jpg "Back to Sea Lake")
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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 […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/IMG_5698-115x115.jpg "Dad is 70!")
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 […] -
![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")
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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 […] -
![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")
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 […] -
![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")
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Posted on August 29, 2021 | No CommentsWe 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 […] -
![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")
Tokyo 2020
Posted on July 25, 2021 | No CommentsMiddle 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 […] -
![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")
Year Five Camp
Posted on June 26, 2021 | No CommentsThis 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 […] -
![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")
Domestic work and play
Posted on May 30, 2021 | No CommentsPerhaps 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 […] -
![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")
Two lunches and a dinner
Posted on April 25, 2021 | No CommentsWe 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 […] -
![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")
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Posted on March 28, 2021 | No CommentsThe 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 […] -
![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")
Busying ourselves at season’s end
Posted on February 28, 2021 | No CommentsSummer 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 […]