idle gossip

afternoon tea at riverbend

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Little A deserved a celebratory afternoon tea this week - she was awarded her Silver Medal in her school’s Steps for Success program.  So we headed off to Riverbend Cafe and Bookshop with Nan for a treat.

There were chocolate velvet tarts, and zesty lemon tarts, and strawberry milkshakes and rich coffees all served with Riverbend’s [...]

treats from toowoomba

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Julian wanted a new pushbike … a special pushbike from Italy … there was only one left on Australia’s eastern seaboard … it was in Toowoomba - a regional town, 2 hours drive away.
So Saturday morning, bright and early, the Boot trio set off in our little Black Betty (a.k.a. small stationwagon) to climb the [...]

oh dear, what can the matter be!

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

So I’m at work.  It’s Saturday night, almost all of the girlies are at the Ball looking marvellously grown-up and exquisitely pretty (and their partners look so young and coltish!) and I am here in the darkened, quiet boarding house with 5 more hours to fill before they return home.  And we’ve had a truly [...]

six random quirks

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

(photos courtesy of “omg, look what arrived all at once and whilst Julian was home!”)

Good morning! There’s no coffee in the hopper (yeah, yeah, laugh Amy laugh!), the table of creation (dining table) is a mess, there are MORE things on my to do list (aaargh!) but I’ve been tagged by Tine over at Sodeste. [...]