Star gazing
A quick look back as we head down the home straight of the year. Despite my weariness, I only took one day off during these recent school holidays, but we made good use of it with another camping trip,...
View ArticleAdventures in suburbia
I like sleeping with one of the smaller humans. One sleeps in a big room with a fluffy rug and a tunnel in it on top of my pink chair, the other sleeps in a smaller room with string on the blind, it...
View ArticleBusying ourselves at season’s end
Summer is ending. This weekend there was a burst of warmth, perhaps the last one. The girls and I had brunch with Helen and Sophia, now aged two with beautiful orange hair and a memory that goes back a...
View ArticleMarch
The mood is changing around the country, and following on from the international and national Black Lives Matter and Me Too movements, what has been acceptable or hidden now is not acceptable or...
View ArticleTwo lunches and a dinner
We had two good lunches and an impressive dinner this month. The first lunch was in regional Victoria: a restaurant called Brae, which featured fresh produce grown on site, seasonal by its nature. The...
View ArticleDomestic work and play
Perhaps partly in response to the uncontrollable sneezing I’ve had for a couple of months, and partly because I got up to the next book in my pile, Marie Condo’s The Life-changing Magic of Tidying,...
View ArticleYear Five Camp
This year, the girls’ birthday coincided with the first day of their school camp. Rhea: When we went to camp, we went on a bus for three and a half hours to Sydney. We had to arrive at 7.40 and the...
View ArticleTokyo 2020
Middle of winter, bleak and cold: the daytime temperature here has ranged from 6 to 11 degrees. Tokyo 2020 is a welcome distraction from the cold, the grind and the challenges. Is it going to be the...
View ArticleQuarantine diary
We had one day at Thredbo of our planned five, and then had to return home because there had been a COVID case in our town so Thredbo didn’t want us. Back at home, we had to quarantine for 14 days...
View ArticleFamily, food and flowers
It’s the sixth week of quarantine/ lockdown. It’s been a good distraction to be so busy at work. The girls have enjoyed the relaxed timeframes with just a zoom lesson at 9.30 am then a few exercises...
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