The school holidays are drawing to a close. As usual I feel the tug between wondering whether we should’ve gotten out and done more activities and just letting myself enjoy the emptiness of the calendar. The children, by and large, have been more than happy playing around the house, and I can hardly argue with…
I’ve been taking photos exclusively with my iPhone ever since I got it. I should explain why. You see, beforehand, our regular point and shoot had been dropped on the ground (by me, oops) and hasn’t been the quite same again. I went back to look and I think the last photo on here taken…
True to form when it comes to fun runs in July, I have managed to get sick ahead of this coming Sunday’s Run Melbourne. I’m not nearly as worried this time as I was for last year’s half marathon because I’m only doing half the distance, but still. Being sick makes me pouty. I will…
Aussie folk, don’t forget you’ve got until 5pm this afternoon (Friday) to enter my competition to win a Cars 2 movie family pass. My mother is staying with us for a little while during these school holidays to see the kids and help me out while I try to get some work matters in order….
Before I wanted to be a movie director, a scriptwriter, or a novelist… before it all, I wanted to be an archaeologist. Learning about Ancient Egypt was somewhat difficult when I was a child in the pre-internet days. Our local library only had two or three books about the subject and these – as you…
We have a new addition to the lounge room. This baby upright, walnut-polished Steinbach fits nice and snug into our compact space, as if it always belonged. We’re renting it for a three month period to see how it fits in to our lives, whether we take to one another, like the way of all…
There’s no denying it any longer – the tooth isn’t improving. These past few weeks (months, almost) have seen me exclusively chewing on the opposite side of my mouth, wincing when the temperature of a drink is too cold or if a stray seed or grain gets lodged in the sore spot. I’ve been waiting…
Last week the moon rose… … and the sun set… … on a day that found me walking, pondering how life may travel these next six months – what might happen, determining the ways our routines and patterns might need reshuffling. This week I got my answer: our life will march on much the same…
Keira has a lockable diary of a certain commercial doll brand that begins with ‘B’ – please don’t make me say it – which, until this week, she had forgotten she owned. It is full of those polling, personality profile quizzes that I’m sure we’ve all enjoyed doing at some point in our lives –…
