When I was about 10 we had some family friends with a holiday house in the Marlborough Sounds. To get there you had to catch a ferry across the Cook Strait from Wellington Harbour at the bottom of the North Island to a little town called Picton at the top of the South Island. From […]
Archives for March 2012
Pilaf and…Just A ‘Little Niggle’
March 20, 2012 By 45 Comments
From the age of four Archie had episodes where he complained of ‘a sore tummy’. I took him to various doctors and asked if it could be his appendix but they all said he was too young and it was probably just ‘a niggly appendix’. The ‘niggles’ came and went but one Monday morning when […]
Strawberry Meringue Cake and…Dinner on the Pavement
March 19, 2012 By 43 Comments
My friend Miss Bee likes to eat out. She recently had a dining experience of a different kind and sent me an email telling me all about it. A few weeks ago her father let her know that he would be in Sydney for a few days and so she organised a booking in a […]
Cream Puffs and…Tact and Diplomacy
March 17, 2012 By 42 Comments
Some children are born with oodles of naturally inbuilt tact and diplomacy but for others it has to be an acquired skill. I was one of those children that needed to acquire those attributes and they were a long time coming. Just after my fifth birthday my father informed my mother that one of his […]
Caramelised Figs and…’Would You Like Us To Delay the Connection?’
March 16, 2012 By 39 Comments
I’m sure you are all by now bored with the updates of my internet woes but sadly, they remain unresolved and I had a rather traumatic conversation with Raj from customer service who works for the internet provider. Raj’s first mistake was to not look at the notes in my file that would clearly state […]
Another Encounter
March 14, 2012 By 46 Comments
I don’t have many ex-boyfriends. There’s no long list, there’s just four of them. But after last Friday night I’ve now had encounters with three of them after having no contact for more than 20 years and all of these encounters have been in the last 15 months. Just over a year ago my sister […]
Custard Berry Tart and…PT
March 13, 2012 By 40 Comments
My chance encounter over the weekend with my ‘Sweet Sixteen’ boyfriend took me back to my teenage years where I was reminded of a chap, who was nothing like my sweet sixteen boyfriend, we named PT. I grew up as the second oldest of five girls in a very lovely suburb where nothing ever happened […]
Raspberry Shortbread Slice and…Sweet Sixteen
March 12, 2012 By 52 Comments
I’ve had a surreal weekend. On Friday night Carl and I went to an event to raise money for Kids with Cancer. Because I knew the organisers they asked if I would mind arriving early to help set up and then work the crowd selling raffle tickets. I told them I would be only too […]
Chocolate Roulade and…Where Are Your Clothes Archie?
March 11, 2012 By 34 Comments
Archie’s Formal would have been lighter on the wallet than Arabella’s but for the fact he kept losing his clothes. The day before we’d been to his Graduation Ceremony and the night before we’d been to the Valedictory Dinner. The Valedictory Dinner was a very formal affair and the parents were very dressed up but […]
Chicken Tagine and…We Have the Dress
March 8, 2012 By 52 Comments
In three months Arabella will be off to her Year 12 Formal. It is being held at the Taronga Function Centre that is on the grounds of the Zoo and overlooks Sydney Harbour. She has her partner organised and that would be Fred from Gunnadah who is Archie’s mate and has been visiting our house […]
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