Archive for September 2010 | Monthly archive page
Tweet We Boots are taking a wee holiday with our Aunty Cate and Uncle Mick in Merimbula – a dear little seaside town on the far southern coast of New South Wales. In my dreams, I live on the edges of Merimbula, in an old farmhouse, on rolling rich green pastures with dairy cows and [...]
Tweet This is Dido. She is Abby’s latest creation – made from beautiful pure wool felt from one of our favourite local shops – the Little Sparrow. Oh my is this one pretty shop – full of beautiful Steiner-inspired toys and craft supplies and their felt is just scrumptious. Most of it is hand-dyed so [...]
Tweet Mum left this morning – her lovely holiday over, she had to fly onto Canberra for a boarding school conference before back home to work. We were sad. It was so wonderful having her here with us – Abby especially loves it. She and her Nan get up to so much mischief and giggling [...]
Tweet Oh my! What a lovely two days we’ve had at home – me, my girl and my mum. We laugh so hard. It is so good to just be here together. Cloth on our laps, needles in our hands, fabric and thread strewn across every table in the house. We all have so many [...]
Tweet Ahhh – it’s the school holidays. My Mum is visiting, Julian’s arrived home from a week overseas, I’m on days off, and voila! After a dreary gray morning, the sun peeps through the freshly greened oak and within moments, floods the back garden with cheeriness. We dash down the street for appropriately rosy supplies [...]
Tweet Oh! Just let me catch my breath. If it’s possible Mum, I have sneezed more today than ever before in my life. My Mum won’t believe this, she’s listened to me – her ridiculously sneezy daughter – for too many years to believe this possible. But it’s true. I need nose tampons. Gross, but [...]
Tweet well, I was going to use that “b” word. You know the one. Two syllables. a “th” in the middle. Ends in “l”. Of course I have never been inside one so how would I know. And the …. oops! almost said it … the one up the street (yes they are legal in [...]
Tweet I really do love our neighbourhood. It’s very Jewish – there are many synagogues, schools, community groups, bakeries, restaurants … and several communities within the one – Holocaust survivors who sought refuge here from Europe after World War II, different orthodox groups, immigrants from Israel and South Africa … and surely many more I [...]
Tweet Something I love about the turning of the season at this time of year are the early sunrises. Now I know lots of folk who despair when the sun charges its way into the bedroom at 6am, 5am, 4.30am – but I adore those hours of quiet, light and warmth that build up before [...]
Tweet Yesterday was Father’s Day so Abby and I devoted our day to the preferred pursuits of Julian. There was a new Lego building game to play (Abby’s gift for Julian) … It’s supposed to be over as soon as the first person reaches five points. The folk at our kitchen table were having too [...]
Tweet It’s almost a week since our dear little doggies died. What a week. Whilst our eyes are no longer puffy with tears, the disbelief seems stronger than ever. Some moments are still so raw, I cannot tell if the shadow of panic and anxiety is creeping up on me, if my breath is shortening, [...]