Happy Blog Birthday! (Yes, Things Have Changed)

It was this blog’s 7th birthday yesterday. Below is the picture from my first post and another I took on Saturday to put side by side and illustrate just how much has changed over this time. (Saturday’s photo took some pleading to get as Keira is a sick little chook at the moment.) But isn’t…

Inevitability

In a scene in The Matrix, Hugo Weaving’s Agent Smith has Keanu Reeves’ Neo down on the subway tracks; as they’re fighting a train’s approach becomes obvious and Agent Smith says, “That is the sound of inevitability”. Around here, the sound of inevitability is that of a blowing nose and intermittent complaining – mine. I’ve…

The Family Audit

Let’s start with jonquils. I bought them on Saturday, after escaping from the house to do the grocery shopping – a chore I loathe, but hey I got to go alone. Forty-five minutes away from sickness (Adam is crook now), trying to ignore the sore, heavy feeling in my arms, that insatiable hunger that comes…