roses that grow along the fence…necessary pretty on dreary sick days You know you’re alive when you spend the night to-ing and fro-ing between breastfeeding the baby and tending to [...]
I realise that by the calendar we are only weeks away from winter but as far as the temperature goes, autumn has only just tickled our toes. Said tootsies are now snug in slippers; lambskin [...]
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 [...]
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; [...]
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 [...]
How interesting that the inspiration behind this series is no longer a seasonal cleanse but a lifestyle change. So many of our friends have suggested that we buy the house we’re currently [...]
Perhaps it’s my age or my new-found love of less, but in the past year or so I’ve refined my style and subsequently, my wardrobe. I no longer harbour a deep attachment to my clothes. [...]
Once they had lit the barbecue they wandered around the vegie patch and picked greens for dinner; rocket, baby spinach, cos lettuce, spicy chives. A night at mama and popa’s was just what [...]
please don’t ask me whether The Luminaries is a good read; I can only comment on the first five pages / a money tree because I figure that a token of abundance is a good omen to wake up to [...]
my flat-leaf parsley and chives are thriving on the front step….and I’ve been adding them to most of our evening meals. Since Poet started pre-school in mid-July we have been plagued [...]
When you clean out your children’s wardrobes you’ll find that your penchant for minimalism must compete with nostalgia. It’s a time consuming process because whether you like it [...]
