There was a television special on Saturday night, as I’m sure there will be more to come, about the life and music of Michael Jackson. I put it on out of respect, more than anything, to the talent I don’t think anyone could doubt he had. We sat the kids down to watch, but Keira…
Keira: Mum, is this your new book? {She points to the open manuscript as I type its revisions into the computer.} Me: It is. Keira: Is it also going to be in a bookshop one day? Me: I sincerely hope so. {Pause} Me: Yes? What else? Keira: Can you wipe off my boogers, please?
It’s now the season for my cherry to be in full blossom – well, it would be in full blossom if the top leaves weren’t still there, charred and angry-looking. I’ve been waiting for them to drop, but I won’t think they will. It’s like they’re soldered to the branch. Here’s an azalea that I…
This was our birthday present to Keira, the “Children’s Map of Europe” which you can get for $24.95 at such places like these. I do have one slight quibble, and that is the borderlines between countries are quite hard to find/follow. However, the reason I do like it – the reason I bought it –…
Yes, really. Damn you. You’ve gotten my kids interested in cooking. Do you know how many nights I’ve contemptuously thrown the dinner plates down in front of them? I’ve gone through dusters before a cookbook has left its musty place on the shelf. Then you come along, with little bantam George Calombaris and that degustantional…
 She caresses my finer sensibilities on days they are barraged by ugliness. Her love a salve, her laugh the soft cloak, I wrap around myself in the moments hours of ever questioning, mothering need.                                                                                  Karen Andrews
Our neighbours visited Kooka’s Country Cookies last week and brought us back two bags of cast-offs; those irregular, broken bits that can’t be used in final packaging and are sold at the factory. So if you hear my complain about any weight gain over the next few weeks we’ll all know why! ~~Yummy~~
I thought I’d removed almost all trace of my pregnancies/births from the house until I was cleaning out deep within my bathroom cupboards, as I described yesterday. Then I discovered the above – nursing pads (which I barely used, these may even be circa Keira’s era), labour aromatherapy oils given to me by a well…
Last week, we almost bought a new house. Last week, we almost put our current house on the market. I’m sure they’re two sentences that will strike fear into many a heart. For us these statements are true. These two things may still happen, but not just yet. This house we were interested in was…
