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Everything’s fine. There’s no need to worry about Miss Arabella. Recovering swiftly from her setback it was, ‘Don’t worry, mum; I’d gone off that course anyway. I’m going to do Law instead and be a barrister’. ‘But you didn’t get enough marks for Law’. ‘Yeah, but I’ll start with Arts and if I get a [...]
Many moons ago I volunteered at a church that would put on end-of-year productions and my job as a volunteer was to write these for them. I would work on the productions with a very talented friend of mine who is a music director and he would give me the concept and I would go [...]
Today I’m guest posting over at The Life of Clare. A few days ago we had a horrible cold snap that plummeted temperatures down around the 10 degree mark (50F). Today it was 35C (95F) and I definitely know what I prefer. When the weather is this lovely, we like to eat salads. Here is [...]
On Friday night we had a dinner party. Carl had invited clients over for dinner. People I had never met. Carl’s good like that, he’s sadistic. I wasn’t stressed though because I knew it would all go well because the teenagers wouldn’t be there – out as usual and I would have the whole day [...]
Some holidays are not relaxing and you arrive home just grateful to have survived. When I was a teenager some friends of my parents thought it would be a fabulous idea for us to go away with them and another family for a week on three boats we would hire from a company in Akuna [...]
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 [...]
There’s a lot of criticism around here at the moment and it’s all to do with lunch boxes. I try and I try and I try but the children are proving difficult to please and I don’t think I’m alone because I know so many mums who are like me and dread the daily chore [...]
There’s one in every school. A housewife with a need for power so they volunteer at their child’s primary school and step into positions like running the canteen, marshaling the children at carnivals and worst of all, running the uniform shop. As a parent you can avoid the woman running the canteen, you can stay [...]
There is a very famous photo of Princess Diana – I mean, there are millions of famous photos of Princess Diana but I’ll mention just one. It was taken at Prince William’s Elementary School on the day of the Athletics Carnival. They ran a mother’s race and Princess Diana took part as a competitor. In [...]
It’s so cold down there and so much colder than the Arctic. Colder because Antarctica is surrounded by water but the Arctic is surrounded by land masses. Antarctica has land underneath it and the Arctic has water and that apparently also makes a big difference. Antarctica has much stronger winds making it colder and in [...]
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