When we have unannounced visitors, I often wonder what they think when they gaze upon our floors and tables. Books are everywhere. I know it probably looks messy, but I like it this way. There’s never a lack of anything to read. Our house when I was growing up was usually in a similar state….
Life / November 3rd, 2011
This Tokito dress came along just at the right time. I began and ended my month of Frocktober wearing it because, as all Melburnians know, just because it’s spring doesn’t mean it’s going to be warm. Its long sleeves and length are weather appropriate. Add onto this its deep v-neckline which for the reasonably busty…
To those of you new to Miscellaneous Mum this year, my Christmas Card Challenge is something I’ve been running since 2006. It began as a reciprocal greeting card bit of fun. Then in later years, in order to reduce my environmental impact, I decided to swap these greetings into email ones. I know this isn’t…
Well, hello November! I’ve been part-excited, part-terrified to meet you. While many people are off at the racetrack standing in interminable lines to get alcohol and sink their high heel shoes into the squishy ground – like I did last year – I’m going to take this opportunity to go over the big month ahead….
As I type this the house is yet to stir and the television is telling me all about the Qantas debacle. For many people this Monday, sandwiched between Sunday and the Melbourne Cup, is taken off to make an extra long weekend. One of these people is Adam. However the schools are still open and…
Many things come to mind when I think about the movie Steel Magnolias: first learning about diabetes, friendship, Sally Field cracking umpteen eggs in a bowl in that confrontation scene with Julia Roberts. What intrigued me most was the red velvet groom’s cake at the start. As a child I wondered how red velvet cake…
In what may be a decision I’ll later regret, I have signed up to participate in both NaNoWriMo and NaBloPoMo. What are these, you might ask? NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) The objective of nanowrimo is deceptively simple: write 50,000 words of a novel over the course of a month (November). Those numbers broken down…
Growing up in warm, rural northern New South Wales meant that snakes were always going to be part of my reality, as indeed they are for many of us, especially out in the scrub or even in the suburbs. When we visited my grandparents’ farm red-bellied and brown snakes were most common, although there were…
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