“A portrait of my daughter, once a week, every week, in 2014.” Poet: as sweet as fairy floss with the pale pink wings to match. She’s holding a flower picked by our neighbour [...]
photos taken by Lou on our recent trip to Melbourne Tomorrow Daniel and I celebrate eight years together. Regardless of our trials we’ve always had a lot of love and respect for each [...]
Consider this a community service announcement: each household throws out an average of 1760kg of waste every single year 30% of our wardrobes will never be worn again 3/4 of all clothes end up [...]
Today was a bit of a milestone for me – I finished my book. The introduction was, funnily enough, the last thing I wrote. For the past week I’ve been trying to get the words out, [...]
This morning I walked into the kitchen and was greeted with that autumn light and a clear, clean table. The rest of the house, despite my Sunday evening quick clean, left much to be desired so I [...]
“A portrait of my daughter, once a week, every week, in 2014.” Poet: she’s always pottering about, busy doing something or other, but today I caught her lying on the table, [...]
It has been unseasonably warm this week; I’ve been wearing summer dresses and sandals and lifting my face to the sun. Despite a busy work schedule and four days of solo parenting I’ve [...]
the second best thing about aesop (after the gorgeous products) is the muslin bag they come in – ideal for storage of necessary miscellany Want to know a secret? Daniel is the resident [...]
I wrote a to-do list last night that was so long and overwhelming that I promptly threw it in the bin. I’m not sure if I’d file that technique under stupidity or simplicity but either [...]
“A portrait of my daughter, once a week, every week, in 2014.” Poet: she splashed in the rock pools for ages; till her lips were blue and her skin all wrinkly. In two weeks time it [...]
A floral frenzy! Anyone would think it was spring with all the colour and blooms bursting from gardens in our street. / these lilac flowers grow from tall stems and fall almost as soon as they [...]
A little while ago I received an email from the team at Blurb asking if I would like to turn my blog into a book. They were working with 10 international bloggers and were keen to have an [...]
