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on the kitchen table …
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008After a peculiar couple of days, there’s an equally peculiar mix of goodies on my kitchen table.
The belting rain of Friday, Sunday and Monday brought about a collapse of damp cardboard tea chests under the house - they were sitting in a gutter whose existence we’d overlooked after 4 years of drought. As such, the [...]
oh the delight of a bloggy friend!
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008This morning I tackled Mt. Ironing. It was a long but satisfying climb and we now all have enough ironed clothes in our wardrobes to last almost two weeks - but I dare not wash until I have flattened Mt. Ironing, otherwise I will be forced to leave the clean clothes on the line and [...]
in bed with my book, my quilt and my laptop …
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008… what more could a girl want!
Julian is in Melbourne tonight, so Little A and I had a quiet girly evening - lots of giggling over dinner and Laurie Colwin’s “Home Cooking” (oh that woman writes like an angel - I’ve only got to say “oh look, it’s a nameless fish hurled into a baking [...]
tickling tuesday’s fancy
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008A bit of shopping had to be done this morning so off I set to Toowong - certainly not my local shopping centre but a very fine place - lovely old fashioned butcher with lots of free range meats, a great fruit and veg that’s been owned by the same Italian family since it opened [...]
gossiping with jane
Monday, April 28th, 2008It’s permanently 5.15pm in the tumbledown house - that’s good, because I was worried it was getting a wee bit late! However, I simply could not go to bed before I added the final border to my “Gossiping with Jane” flimsie. Well, at least 1 side of the final border!
And here it is! I’m [...]