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 […]
A Medical Emergency
February 23, 2015 By 58 Comments
My life has been such a whirlwind I’ve barely had time for any on-line presence. It always seems that just when you think the week ahead is looking like plain-sailing and you might actually have the chance to tackle the overdue tax reports the accountant has been asking for since October, that another crisis rears […]
A Trip to Hospital
February 12, 2015 By 53 Comments
Miss Arabella has always had a mouth full of drama. In primary school she had an expander and then braces followed by an operation to remove a ‘super-numery’. In high school she had braces but the result wasn’t good so she then had an extraction to create some necessary room and then braces for another […]
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 […]
The Interview Dress
December 6, 2014 By 38 Comments
Miss Arabella came home from the interview fearing the worst. She was applying to a university to study a combined law degree and as well as having satisfactory grades, she had to have a one-hour interview with the Dean of Law. She came home beating herself up with a long list of regrets and saying […]
Festive Fruit and Nut Cake and…Morning Drama
December 3, 2014 By 48 Comments
Do you all have morning drama? We have it in spades. This morning Arabella had a very important interview. She had to be in the city and ready for her appointment by 9.30am. That shouldn’t be a challenge. But when she woke, first she had to go out for a takeaway coffee and then she […]
The Gym Junkie
November 15, 2014 By 43 Comments
I’ve never really liked going to the gym. But everyone else has a membership so I’ve felt I’d better get one too. Over the years I have spent thousands on memberships where I don’t even put one foot inside the establishment that’s taking an automatic monthly direct debit straight from my bank account. Hopeless. Swim […]
Reef Beach, Sydney
October 5, 2014 By 26 Comments
One of the best things about spending time at Oakvale is that on the neighbouring property lives two boys, both around the same age as our little guy. Alfie spends every daylight hour with them and it’s all old-fashioned fun which means being outdoors and doing things like riding dirt bikes, playing with the hose, […]
In My Kitchen, October 2014
October 1, 2014 By 47 Comments
October already! In my kitchen I have quite a few new cookbooks. The first was given to me by a friend who has a son at the Shore school, a private school for boys. The School released a cookbook to commemorate 125 years of the school. It’s a stunning hard-back cookbook that’s been incredibly beautifully […]
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