September is always a busy month for my family; so busy that as usual, this year we didn’t have time to get together to celebrate my sister’s birthday, my daughter’s birthday, my father’s birthday, my niece’s birthday and a nephew’s birthday that had been even a little bit earlier than the others. So in October […]
Raspberry Brownies and The Wrap Party
September 2, 2012 By 31 Comments
Long, long ago when Carl was treading the boards as a professional actor and we were living in abject poverty, Carl gained a role in a Community Theatre production of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. And being ignorant I had no idea what ‘Community Theatre’ was but when we had no money for food […]
Spicy Nuts and ‘I told you, Archie’
August 18, 2012 By 37 Comments
A few years ago when Archie was nearly 16 we had a holiday staying with some friends on their country property. I thought it would be a lovely relaxing break where the teenagers could enjoy doing nothing except lying around the pool, sitting and talking or reading a good book. But in the shed at […]
Potato Scallops and…Thursday Nights and Saturday Mornings
April 3, 2012 By 38 Comments
When I was 15 I thought I needed a job. Part-time work was available for teens in most retail stores for Thursday night/Saturday morning shifts. (This was back in the day when weekend trading was only permitted on Saturdays from 8am until 12md. I went to my local shopping mall and walked from store to […]
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