It was all as you said it would be. ‘They’ll be fine’, you said, ‘they will rise to the occasion’. And I can tell you that is exactly what happened even though when it came to looking after the little guy and caring for the home, one rose a lot higher than the other. Of […]
Red Wine Lamb Shanks with Parsley Mash
April 24, 2015 By 38 Comments
As many of you are aware, here in Sydney we have just been visited by a Category 2 cyclone. What was predicted was ‘a few days of wind and rain’ but what arrived was far more severe and certainly unexpected. On Saturday night we went out for dinner and it was so mild and balmy […]
Slow-Cooked Beef Cheeks with Asian Spices and…Nurses in Flight
August 12, 2014 By 40 Comments
Recently I was telling you about my experiences as a nurse and how I had to work on the cardio thoracic ward run by a woman with little tolerance for student nurses. While there were people at the hospital who opportunistically tried to make life miserable for student nurses, we didn’t let them stop us […]
The Hymn Book
March 24, 2014 By 48 Comments
A few weeks ago I was trying to help Alfie with his homework while also cooking dinner and bringing in the washing and feeding the dogs and keeping an eye on the news and sorting out the RSVPs for Archie’s 21st while playing solo parent because Carl had a late meeting. And the phone rang. […]
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