We ventured down to Adventure Park at the beginning of last week. The kids had already begun pestering us to go there thanks to the television ad campaign going on at the moment, so you can imagine their delight when – just this once – I was able to say, “We ARE going!” Their excitement…
Her: I’m going to live a simpler life in 2012. Pare everything back to the essentials. Him: Okay. Her: Take more photos, too. Him: MORE photos? Her: More meaningful ones, anyway. Him: Right. Her: I need to remember to Instagram them more. Him: Fair enough. Her: And experiment with all the new frames and add-ons….
2012! While the others were swimming yesterday I went to lie down outside under the trees at the pool and began typing away on the new iPad. The plan is to sync up files to Dropbox and see if that will be a viable way to write. The day before, I walked to the library…
If you paid attention to the news around the time of Kate and William’s wedding, you might possibly remember this: an excited verger doing cartwheels of joy down the aisle at Westminster Abbey after the royal couple had left. This footage makes me smile. I hope we all have the chance to do similar happy…
My blogging goal for this year was never focused on numbers. It never is, really. I can understand the desire to achieve a certain tally of subscribers or followers or hits or fans and I’ve been told I really should worry about it more if I’m going to be a ‘Serious’ or ‘Professional’ Blogger. [But…
I’m not quite sure how to write about Christmas, now I’m here typing about it. Too often I wonder about pictures and articles that harp on about decorations that seem to worry too much about appearances: it’s like a “my Christmas was way more beautiful and tasteful than yours” competition. Which is funny, if you…
I’ll do a proper Christmas post soon (‘proper’ meaning ‘PRESENTS, PRESENTS, PRESENTS’), but I’ll start the day’s recap with what happened right at the end of yesterday afternoon. For anyone who’s not heard, Melbourne had tremendous storms yesterday; our patch of the city copped bad hail. Observe! This is a view of our back deck…
A couple of hours ago I sent around the email to all the commenters for 2011, thanking you all for your support and contributing to the overall sense of community here at Miscellaneous Mum. If you have commented at some point over the year but didn’t receive the email, it might be an idea to…
Deck the Halls with Boughs of…. la la… whatever… Look at me, I see the irony. Me, rallying against Christmas consumerism when I was born in one of its major mangers – otherwise known as a Bunnings warehouse – on a day when the parents of my maker were shopping for Christmas. I’m a…
