During the week my mother was interviewed by her local paper regarding her involvement in the World Youth Day celebrations down in Sydney. This is a rough transcript of the phone conversation which occurred between us after said interview: Her: “I quoted your blog!” Me: “You did? What bit?” Her: “It was your ‘vibrant Catholic‘…
Back in the day, back when my Technorati was very respectable, and I played the ‘blogging game’ a bit better than I have the time (or the inclination) to do so these days, I made my way onto several “TOP BLOGGER” lists. Remarkably, miraculously, I remain on some of these lists and, in turn, have somehow found my…
This seemingly innocuous bottle of honey caused quite the stir in our marriage last week. You see, I despise these cleaning-disasters-in-wait; my husband on the other hand thinks that because it is a supposed ‘innovation’ in the way we spread this condiment over our bread that it must – nay, it is – even better…
[*no, I’m not talking about Kasey Chambers. Catchy title, though, so I’m going to borrow it.] Yesterday: The Good: An expression of interest was made in pre-ordering my book; this will end up being a number somewhere over 50 copies, which is wonderful. The Bad: I received a letter in the mail from a book…
I may still cough like a consumptive when the cold wind hits my chest – something which happens quite frequently in this draughty house – but on most other health fronts I am finally on the improve. Enough to carry one child on my hip and have the other glued to my free hand as we…
The other week we purchased a Remmington home-haircut kit, complete with powered clippers, capes, brushes, combs etc. to satisfy my compulsion to prove, yet again, that I am a tight-ass when it comes to money; because I figured that we could pay back by Christmas what we save by cutting Riley’s hair at home, rather than…
Update: The entire program can be found in today’s The Age newspaper. My session is in there, but my author profile didn’t make it (although I think they did warn me that might happen). Now I just have to try and decide what other sessions I’d like to go to. Anyone else going? Who are you…
Lee, this one is for you 🙂 [Mmm…man-hair chest. Yet another reason why I married my husband.]
Sydney is whipped up in a vibrant, Catholic* frenzy this week on account of the Pope being in town and World Youth Day. A news report was just on giving an update on the fesitivities. The footage showed lots of kids running around, waving flags and banners and such. “Look mummy, it’s a great big circus!”…
