Comfort is the upmost priority in pregnancy and this time around, I have been particularly fussy when it comes to how an item fits. From about 8 weeks pregnant I couldn’t stand wearing [...]
Creeping out of holiday mode is a little difficult when you live in a holiday house. Regardless of the fact that it’s our permanent home, the laid-back nature of our local area isn’t [...]
This story begins at Christmas time 2013 when my Dad built me a stand-alone vegie box out of recycled materials – timber and offcuts of corrugated iron. It was easy to assemble and pull [...]
A portrait of my daughter, once a week, every week, in 2015. Poet: her face still covered in sunscreen from the beach, she chooses to wear her showercap in the most ineffective way Shot on a [...]
It’s becoming increasingly clear that if I want to get anything done over the next nine weeks, I’m going to have to embrace a summer siesta. The week of Christmas was quite mild; [...]
“A portrait of my daughter, once a week, every week, in 2014.” Poet: if I can’t find her in the house I know exactly where she is; pottering in our garden. And just like [...]
In retrospect, a look at 2014. It was such a big year for us and whilst the milestones were notable and memorable, I’m grateful that I documented the little things, too. January started [...]
“A portrait of my daughter, once a week, every week, in 2014.” Poet: face paint is one of her favourite things, odd looking garden bugs are not. Only one more to go, friends. Now is [...]
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I still have work to do before I’m officially on holidays but yesterday morning we woke and basked in the promise of six weeks without school. Come midday the word “bored” was [...]
Since Monday I have been both transfixed and mortified by the events in Sydney. As much as I wanted to sit and watch it unfold I opted instead to switch off and tune out. To wake to the news of [...]
“A portrait of my daughter, once a week, every week, in 2014.” Poet: a rare moment of stillness between excitable splashes. I can’t believe we’re at 50! An [...]
