Hello! We’re home again, sweet home. A wonderful day of travelling yesterday; I even enjoyed our second leg in the plane between Sydney and Melbourne (it was a 767 – perhaps I feel safer in the bigger ones).

Then there was the usual nightmare of unpacking and sorting and cleaning (as if I hadn’t done any before I left!) and finding All Sorts Of Smells. Most exciting of all was our garden. Or jungle, maybe.

garden december 2010

Again, like the triumph of 2008, the row along the fence on the right is our tomatoes. Unlike last time they’re still green, thank goodness, so it looks like we’re going to catch the full harvest. On the left is weeds mostly, however within that mess is our chili bush. I’ll need to hack all the excess back just to get a proper view of the state of things.

The best thing of all?

stawberry

A strawberry! IT’S OUR CHRISTMAS MIRACLE!

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Karen Andrews is the creator of this website, one of the most established and well-respected parenting blogs in the country. She is also an author, award-winning writer, poet, editor and publisher at Miscellaneous Press. Her latest book is Trust the Process: 101 Tips on Writing and Creativity