Archive for the ‘family’ Category
TweetWe drove to Daylesford this weekend. It is very beautiful – idyllic – and we are so looking forward to going back. Especially to check out the lovely village centre which is so very old and picturesque. Hopefully there is an overnight stay coming up at the old manse – I shall feel like Jane [...]
Tweet I love orange. So often, when I’m choosing fabric, or wool, or clothes, I find myself thinking oh look, there’s orange, I love orange and never choose it. This happens so often, that when I fossick through the stash, look through my wardrobe, there’s a lot of orange. Julian and I have fallen into [...]
Tweet It is well documented that sitting in a cosy armchair, in your flannel jammies doing some handstitching with your muma and dada sitting across from you with their books, and your puppies snoozing lazily on the sofa is the best medicine for the angst that can accompany a day at high school. Oh my [...]
TweetThe weather is hot, dry and windy. The drive is long, dull and slow (the freeway has at least five roundabouts in a 10 km stretch – funny freeway). The beach is not very beachy for us Queenslanders, but the food is yummy and there were some pretty bits and bobs to look at through [...]
Tweet Ah he’s so young that Julian. Only 39 times round the sun. Happy Birthday dear boy! As we have such a rush in the morning – well, I don’t but Jules and Abby do – we decided to create a new family tradition. Simple, everyday breakfast with a quick birthday kiss, a quick round [...]
Tweet After three very focussed days, my mind was a-wandering today. I attempted to sit down and look “quietly” at my knitting – taking a quiet look is the means to solving any knitting dilemna according to my old Nanny – and whilst I realised where I’d gone wrong in the last row knitted (2 [...]
Tweetcan there be more words needed than these … I don’t think so. This week, more than ever, I find myself reading and re-reading these words, absorbing them, then doing my best to imbue my words and actions with such love. Actually, I lie. I do have more words. At the risk of turning this [...]
TweetAs I walk through the city, let alone my own home, I look up and around and am constantly in awe at the level of decoration we have blessed our buildings with over the centuries. It doesn’t matter which civilisation you study, the human love of adornment is everywhere and ever present. Our drive through [...]
TweetThere’s been so much readying lately here in Bootville. This week’s readying has been both exciting and daunting. As a muma, I am filled with amazed pride and wistful memories that here we are, ready for highschool. Oh my goodness, wasn’t it only the other day that we were ready for 3 year old kinder. [...]
TweetYee-ha! I am sitting here on the sofa; Julian has pedalled off to work (god bless his hard working soul!), Abby is making the most of her last day of summer holidays and is sleeping in, Toph is curled up beside me, my very first issue of Marie Clair Idees is on the other side [...]
Tweet Upon leaving Brisbane, we had days where there were more cows than people sharing our journey! They are beautiful animals. So careful, still, and wary. Their coats have been thick and healthy, their eyes luminous and alert, their “homes” wide and rich with plenty of shelter. All of this has been very heart warming, [...]
Tweet After some dreary weather, when summer cloaked itself in dark grey and delivered us lovely rain, albeit chilly days, the sun finally burst through the clouds this afternoon and treated us to some glorious warmth. We took a good walk – turning and turning down one unfamiliar side street after the other. Then, once [...]
