Archive for the ‘family’ Category
TweetThis afternoon was at last deemed the right time – warm, sunny and dry – to start work on our raised garden beds. I’ve been collecting unwanted pallets for the last couples of weeks (any locals who watch me must think I’ve finally hit rock bottom, lugging these heavy, dirty things into our car!) and [...]
TweetFirst exam today … research methods in healthcare … such a good subject, makes me dream about designing my own research project in an honours year … I’m definitely a qualitative girl … phenomonology … listening to and understanding how people experience different events in their lives. But right now, I’m just relieved one exam [...]
Tweet … and we had such fun! It’s a bit of a hit and miss affair here in Melbourne. Friends a few suburbs over say for the last few years they’ve had no trick or treaters – but this year they had 30 visits – and their streets were full of joyful, costume-clad children. Last [...]
Tweet For thirteen years, as my girl has stretched and grown, the beginning of each new season has brought with it the need for new night clothes. Yet another way of marking that “Goodness me, yes! How you’ve grown!” I’ve made countless pairs of pyjama pants – flannel, cotton, short, long. In the early days, [...]
Tweet Such a different day today. Dark, grey, cool and drizzly. The house is silent. The girlie’s at school. The husband’s at work. It’s just the dog and I, peering out into the gloom. Thank goodness for my radiating sideboard huh! So I tackled chores … including the “onerous” task of trawling through Eden Seed’s [...]
TweetAfter an exhausting and wet Saturday taking a year’s worth of prunings to the green recycling centre (in a hired flat bed truck) it was soooo good today to soak up the sun. Firstly at the Mt. Eliza farmers’ market (an early start, after returning the truck) then working, cooking, eating, playing and planting in [...]
Tweet Abby and I are “doing” girls. If we go out for afternoon tea, we always feel at a bit of a loss. Yes we can chat, and do, but apart from that, going out for afternoon tea is such an idle thing to do. And over so quickly. As for shopping – frankly, I’m [...]
TweetMichaelmas is here … was here :-) It was marvellous. I enjoyed today’s preparations, conversations, reflections and feasting with my family so very, very much. And it was one of my best mothering days ever. Abigail and I were the most beautiful team – we started with our list and just meandered, perfectly in time [...]
TweetIt’s Michaelmas on Thursday … we’ve been preparing for weeks – and today, curled up on the sofa with the girlie, I finished stitching our Michaelmas banner to hang before the fireplace. I’ve used Amanda’s recipe from Handmade Home – this technique with vintage blanket scraps really sings to me and we have several now [...]
TweetBit of this, bit of that. Lots of dusting. Strenuous vacuuming. A quick shuffling of chairs. Some rearranging of clutter. Breakfast baking for the school lunch – thanks so much Fiona! Some border work on an ancient project (what a good lily :-) Reproducing favourite parts of ancient project with scraps from current projects Building [...]
TweetWhat do you do when your girlie’s arriving home from camp and you have no idea what time the bus is pulling in? When you’ve pulled apart every receptacle containing random papers looking for that one piece with the magical time … When you’ve skimmed through every online newsletter, rung the campground (message bank), the [...]
TweetWhen I brought this wild looking biker-boy home 19 years ago, my parents were horrified. But I knew that beneath the leathers there was a lovely man and potential father – loyal, determined, caring and constant. Yeah he has his flaws too – don’t we all – but as I scanned through this year’s photos, [...]
