I have to say I’m enjoying my downtime from Arabella and her dramas. We had the final week of her schooling that was intensity plus and now there’s this wonderful breather before the exams begin. It’s a wonderful breather because she’s gone and is away on study camp so I feel like I’m having to […]
Soy Sauce Chicken and The Squash Player
July 8, 2012 By 41 Comments
We have a lot of drought in Australia and when we’re not in drought, it’s flooding. About a six or seven hour drive north of Sydney is a town called Coffs Harbour. When I was about 15 my parents announced to us with great excitement that we were going to Coffs Harbour for a very […]
White-Cooked Chicken andThe Plague
July 7, 2012 By 42 Comments
Last night I had tickets to a Barry Humphries concert starring his world famous creations, Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson. And what made these tickets even more special was that they’d been given to me. I’d been looking forward to the night for so long but alas, I’ve been struck down with a […]
‘Stop Hunger, Start Cooking’ Cookbook
June 20, 2012 By 25 Comments
Oxfam is a wonderful charity organisation dedicated to seeing a future free from poverty and hunger. For the second consecutive year, Oxfam has created a cookbook that can be downloaded without charge from their website. The cookbook, titled ‘Stop Hunger, Start Cooking’ includes recipes from top Australian chefs and foodies including Neil Perry, Kylie Kwong […]
Cat Fight on the Cat Walk
June 13, 2012 By 46 Comments
The formal drama is not over. Yes, I was blessed with a few days reprieve, four to be exact, but yesterday it started again. Just to refresh your memory, Arabella’s formal was last Thursday but that boy, Flynn, who has invited her to his formal, is cranking up the drama. Flynn is ‘just a friend’ […]
Stir-Fried Chicken and…My Sanctuary
May 30, 2012 By 33 Comments
I have a sanctuary. That’s what I call my shower recess. It’s that one little place where you are perfectly entitled to be on your own and also, be undisturbed. But my children were born with a huge amount of ignorance towards understanding that their mother was not just having a shower to shampoo her […]
Mongolian Beef and…Pianos, Rice and Tambourines
April 1, 2012 By 38 Comments
My parents believed their children should be ‘good all-rounders’ so as well as enrolling us in swimming lessons, signing us up for Little Athletics, dropping us off at Art Classes, making us do ballet with Mrs Warwick, somehow they found the time and the economic means to give us piano lessons. We didn’t always have […]
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