My older children will be quick to tell you they had a deprived childhood because unlike other families, every Easter they weren’t taken to the Royal Easter Show. We did go once or twice but as it is often crowded and as some children like to run away, be difficult, fight with their sister, have […]
Win Tickets to the Easter Show
March 25, 2015 By 42 Comments
Sydney’s Royal Easter Show is Australia’s largest annual event and this year, in its two-week season, is expected to attract around a million visitors. The Royal Easter Show was started by the Royal Agricultural Society of NSW (RAS) in 1823 and for nearly 200 years, has been the darling of Sydney’s events. RAS is a […]
Bitten by the Swimming Bug
March 12, 2015 By 23 Comments
So…we’ve had the school swimming carnival and the amateur swim club carnival and this week we’ve had the inter-schools’ zone swimming carnival. It was held at my most favourite pool, North Sydney Olympic Pool. My favourite not only because I used to train there as a child, but because of its unique position on the […]
Iceberg Lettuce Salad and…Turkey Time
February 27, 2015 By 34 Comments
But it’s not really turkey time is it. Since Christmas I have had a 7.5kg (13 stone), free-range turkey in my freezer and while delighting in how I was able to purchase it at cost price, it’s actually started to annoy me because it was taking up 85% of my freezer space. I was intending […]
SoCal, Neutral Bay
February 24, 2015 By 38 Comments
Since the beginning of this year, Alfie has let us know that for his birthday he would like to go to SoCal, a Mexican restaurant with a name that is short for ‘So Californian’. He had been there just once before when Arabella took him out for lunch one day and ever since has declared […]
The Swimming Carnival
February 13, 2015 By 40 Comments
My little guy has a love/hate relationship with swimming. The ‘love’ part is that he’s a very natural swimmer with a beautiful swimming style as mentioned in this contact form and he has the potential to be a very good swimmer. The ‘hate’ part is that he’d really rather not swim. Up until yesterday, that is. […]
A Christmas Card
December 22, 2014 By 40 Comments
Every year I send out Christmas cards that have an unfortunate family photo on the front and musings of what a wicked year it’s been, on the inside. I sent this year’s Christmas cards out almost three weeks ago and no one has received them. Who knows where they have ended up but there were […]
21 Years of Santa Photos
December 18, 2014 By 42 Comments
I’ve now been taking my children to see Santa for more than two decades. I never thought I’d spend 21 years lining up in lengthy queues with hyped-up children who couldn’t stand in line for five minutes let alone the two hours it’s often been. I thought I would share with you the interesting and […]
Scouts’ Christmas Trees
December 14, 2014 By 25 Comments
Alfie’s a Cub-Scout and part of what he does as a Cub is fundraise for the organisation. That’s not a taxing task as there’s actually only one fundraiser a year and it’s the sale of Christmas trees. Last year was the first year Alfie and I assisted the Scouts by standing in a prominent place […]
Snowman Cake
December 10, 2014 By 47 Comments
Alfie is so skinny. When he is in his swimsuit Arabella always says to him, ‘Can you cover up your skeleton?’ But he’s been this way since he was born. In the hospital there were two babies that were over 10lbs, Alfie and a baby girl. Apart from their weight they had little else […]
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