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After organising her costumes a few weeks ago, Arabella left for school this morning confident she had everything all sorted for Friday’s performance. It’s just when she arrived at school she remembered she needed to bring her costumes with her as they were supposed to be photographed today. That’s when I received the emergency call. [...]
We don’t have a Costume Department. And schools seem to think that inside every home, there’s a Costume Department. Arabella is performing her Group Performance and her Individual Performance in front of the Board of Studies on Friday. This is a very nerve-wracking experience and will make for a stressful week where we will tiptoe [...]
When I was growing up my father bought a gadget that came all the way from the USA – and that was a very big deal back in those days. It was an ice cream machine that wasn’t electric or mortorised but instead was a barrel with a cylinder inside it with a dasher to [...]
Long, long ago when I was just a wee lass, medical centres didn’t exist. Every family had a local doctor who they stuck with through every stage of their lives. The doctor ran his clinic out of ‘rooms’ that were more often than not, within his own home, and answering the phone and making the [...]
It’s been a trying week. I’ve had Alfie home with acute asthma. On the plus side, we didn’t end up in hospital like we have on so many previous occasions. But I did have to give him steroids and he did need many doses of ventolin and ventolin is good for the lungs but bad for [...]
When I graduated from primary school at the age of 10 I was sent to an Intermediate School which was for two years and covered what today would be Sixth Grade and Year Seven. In those two years we were supposed to ‘find ourselves’ and so were exposed to a range of subjects we had [...]
I had the best Mother’s Day. It started on Saturday night when we went to see Prince in concert. I wasn’t sure how much I would enjoy it as I like some of his music but it’s not the sort of music I listen to regularly. But he gets an 11 out of ten for [...]
Sponsored by Nuffnang Kellogg’s All-Bran is a cereal that has been around for a very long time. When I was growing up we always had a box of All-Bran in the pantry. We would be given a bowl of All-Bran for breakfast that was topped with fruit, yoghurt and cream from the top of the [...]
Last night was Alfie’s school’s Year 2 Social Evening and the organisers chose to hold it at the local lawn bowls club. I was desperate and dateless as Carl had double-booked himself and ended up in a seminar on the other side of town so I walked in hardly knowing a soul, adorned myself with [...]
Yesterday was the Balmoral Swim for Cancer which is a 1km swim around Balmoral Beach. This was a fundraising event raising money for the Children’s Cancer Institute Australia. Carl has been doing swimming training five days a week since August so was very keen to enter and signed up me and Arabella as well. I [...]
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