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Tweet goodness me! Sometimes these days just hurry by, don’t they. Here we are and it’s Tuesday night already. Mum has been and gone – she’s in Brisbane now, visiting with old Nanny and Grandad who are relishing every moment of having their eldest child at their beck and call :-) Lucy is having her [...]
Tweet We are so very fortunate to live in a neighbourhood that is filled to bursting with beautiful trees. In spring, streets of frothy blossoms fill me with speechless pleasure. In summer, thick, vivid green canopies cast a beautiful, peaceful light upon us. In winter, gnarled trunks and branches stand to stiff, cold attention. A [...]
Tweet Oh the sun. So nourishing. And I so needed it today. Monday, when popping on my spectacles, I realised that the right side of my nose was very sore. The kind of sore your nose feels after meeting a cricket ball. Not something I’ve experienced lately … cricket balls that is. There was no [...]
Tweet Thank you, lovely readers! Your words, experience, wisdom, suggestions and empathy were so encouraging. I read and re-read every lovely comment and will respond to each of you as soon as I can. Right now, I’ve just submitted my last case study for the semester – respiratory complications in the postoperative patient – presented [...]
Tweet These are a pair of culottes. I made them last Saturday. Julian and Abby were out for the day. I had a lovely new pattern and two metres of beautiful, crisp drill. Exciting stuff for us sewists. Now, it’s been a while since I made anything for myself that needed to fit accurately. So [...]
Tweet if you would like to share your ~loveliness found~ moments from this week … & I would so love it if you did … please leave them in the comments or share a link to your place! ~ picnicking at a magical spot where rolling green hills meet the glittering blue sea underneath a [...]
Tweet if you would like to share your ~loveliness found~ moments from this week … & I would so love it if you did … please leave them in the comments or share a link to your place! ~ and still I stitch, one little red figure after another, first band finished, second started, feeling [...]
Tweet Still reading, still note taking, still writing, still practicing. There may not be time for quilts and pottering and furniture and dolls … but there’s always time for bread. And call me corny, but watching that dough rise never ceases to delight me. Sprinkling the top of that soft, taut mass with flour then [...]
Tweet ~ very simple, very sweet and oh so very soothing ~ ~ new friendships were cherished, endings that arrived so quickly were lamented & promises were made ~ ~ an early morning prac was rewarded with a steamy, creamy bowl of coffee in the sun ~ ~ knit, knit, knit, knit, knit … & [...]
Tweet Winston had his black dog. I have my red queen. Melodramatic I know. But Kim, you hit the nail on the head yesterday when you commented on hormones. Part of me truly hates to say this … I feel as if I am playing into every patronising, patriarchal notion of the hysteria of women [...]
Tweet We went to the zoo! On the hottest day of our heatwave so far ….. (that sound is me hissing through my teeth) … it was lovely. But excruciatingly hot. The best part was when I stood under the canopy sprinkler with the kookaburra. I just wish they’d turned the tap on a bit [...]
Tweet make sure you get to the bottom of this week’s ~loveliness found~ post to check the winner of the May Gibbs giveaway! again, thank you all so much for entering and leaving such lovely comments – I only wish I could send all of you a pillowslip! p.s. & if you would like to [...]