During my childhood, a favourite outing for my sisters and me (but not for my mother) was shopping day. My mother would pile all five of us into the car where we roamed about as we weren’t strapped into car seats and we didn’t wear seat belts. In fact at some stage a law came […]
Archives for February 2012
Toothpick Appetisers and…Jury Duty Penance
February 7, 2012 By 37 Comments
Carl’s been called up to do his bit for society. Not that he has time to. It’s the second time he’s been called up in less than three months. A few months ago Carl received in the mail a letter from the Sheriff’s Department letting him know he was required to be at the Court […]
Twice Cooked Chicken Wings and…In the Spirit of the Super-Bowl
February 6, 2012 By 38 Comments
Here in the Southern Hemisphere we are a long way from that Nation-stopping event, The Super Bowl. But that doesn’t mean we don’t do our bit to join in on all the excitement. I read on the Three Cookies blog this morning that while watching the Super Bowl, Americans will consume 1.25 billion chicken wings. […]
Devils on Horseback and…The View From the Staircase
February 5, 2012 By 31 Comments
I grew up in a house with a mother who loved to cook. Not only cook, but entertain. I have wonderful memories of those nights when we were given ‘fish n chips’ for dinner (the only available takeaway), were put into the bath early, came down to the lounge to dry our hair in front […]
Tapioca Pudding and…First Week Back Melt-Downs
February 4, 2012 By 33 Comments
The day the primary school children return to the classrooms is the day the parents who linger behind at the school gates face one of their greatest moments of testing. Firstly, because they are wondering which teacher their child ended up with and secondly, who else is in the class. Some parents try to take […]
Sloppy Teenagers
February 3, 2012 By 34 Comments
My teenagers’ bedrooms are a catastrophe. It’s like there’s been an explosion. How do they sleep in such chaos? Why don’t they like order? Why don’t they care? I really would like to get in there to change the sheets, it’s just I can’t cross the floor. When I comment about all the clothes strewn […]
Scallops Wrapped in Zucchini and Proscuiutto and…Me the Stage Mum
February 2, 2012 By 28 Comments
According to Archie, three black marks will qualify you as a Stage Mum and Archie assures me I have far more black marks than three so I now need to wear this appalling title. I don’t know what I did to qualify. But Archie does. I gained my first notable black mark when he was […]
The Red Educational Shoe Award
February 1, 2012 By 30 Comments
It was such a treat to wake up the other morning and log-on to my computer and find I have been recognised by a blogger I greatly admire. I discovered Cecilia from The Kitchen’s Garden had been awarded a Red Shoe and had passed the award on to me! Cecilia started her blog on the […]
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