Category: Stuff About Me

Family & Parenting, Fibre & Needle Crafts, Food Glorious Food, Historical reenactment, Stuff About Me3 Comments

Beorg-wic and birthday party reporting

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Here we are at the end of two weeks of school holidays and I feel absolutely wiped out. Not because having the kids around has worn thin, they seem to have grown up enough for that not to be such a problem any more. Rather it’s because I’ve spent pretty much the whole 2 weeks with a horrible lurgi. Same thing happened to me last school holidays too. I feel cheated. All I can say is it’s a damn good thing that being a Dark Ages reenactor doesn’t require you to give up paracetamol and anti-histamines as well as plumbing … Continue reading Beorg-wic and birthday party reporting

Gardens and Bushland, Pets and Other Wildlife, Stuff About Me8 Comments

Beautiful plumage!

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Our back deck has a number of regular visitors. There’s the rainbow lorikeets who cling to the fly screen and screech at us demanding breakfast. There’s the possum who comes every evening to clean up anything the birds leave behind. There’s the crimson rosella who with great daring braves the wrath of the lorikeets to try for a share of the apples and bird seed (it never works, those lorikeets are fierce!). And very occasionally we get the King Parrots who are regulars at our neighbour’s back deck and rarely grace us with their presence. One of them dropped in … Continue reading Beautiful plumage!

Food Glorious Food, Stuff About Me5 Comments

And a fun time was had by all

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Tonight was the P&C Trivia Night. More a social occasion than a fundraiser so not too much organising needed to be done, I bought a few prizes and we decorated the school hall with some token balloons and tealight candles on the tables. Ariane‘s sister was our trivia master for the night and she did an awesome job, everyone was very appreciative. So, we sat around eating cheese and bikkies, drinking red wine, answering trivia questions, attempting to burn down the school… …WHAT? Um. You know those tealight candles on the tables? Turns out it wasn’t such a brilliant idea … Continue reading And a fun time was had by all

Fat Acceptance, Stuff About Me4 Comments

Being everything I can be

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I read a post on Nat’s blog this morning that got me thinking. Here’s the bit that gave the old brain cells a prod: …even now, ‘just’ 52 kilos lighter I am much more of a person than I ever was before. This seems so shallow but it reinforces my belief that we categorise ourselves and filter our world through our obesity…just like someone who is depressed. And this stops us from sharing so many of our good qualities with others. We allow ourselves to become less of a human being. We allow ourselves to watch the rest of the … Continue reading Being everything I can be

Gardens and Bushland, Stuff About Me2 Comments

Walking down my front path

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I came home this morning after doing the grocery shopping and as I staggered down the front path loaded with bags of dog food, pasta, snacks for the kids and the like I looked over into my garden and was seized with an urgent need to go get the camera. Kangaroo paw budding Tiny and pink Grevillea Prostrate grevillea – This does ground cover duty over much of the front yard. Another grevillea Tiny and purple Teeny tiny pink thing – Can you tell I’m completely clueless when it comes to plants? My garden makes me happy 🙂 Continue reading Walking down my front path

Family & Parenting, Food Glorious Food, Historical reenactment, Stuff About Me3 Comments

Good day

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The beginning of my day: Adam has been making me awesome breakfasts for almost 20 years, this morning I said I was craving pancakes and bacon and eggs. I got up, had my shower, got dressed…et voilà! The middle of my day: I took Caitlin shopping. She ended up with FOUR pairs of shoes. They were: school shoes which cost a bloody fortune, long black boots at 25% off bought slightly big in the hope they’ll be good for next winter and 2 pairs of crappy flats from Kmart which cost $5.60 a pair and will probably do horrible things … Continue reading Good day

Family & Parenting, Keeping the Masses Entertained, Stuff About Me8 Comments

It doesn’t take much to make me happy

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Caitlin has not had a particularly easy learning to read experience. Although she does love to have books read to her and will happily browse through non-novel type books of various types I’ve rarely seen her settle down with one and read for a significant length of time and she has read very few chapter books. This afternoon Caitlin came out of class clutching a book and began enthusiastically telling me all about it. The book in question was The Magic Faraway Tree. I asked where she’d got it as it didn’t look like a library book, turns out it’s … Continue reading It doesn’t take much to make me happy

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Planning ahead

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When I turned 6 on the 23rd of October in 1976 I got one of the best birthday presents I’ve ever had. The sun hid behind the moon. I remember being so excited. We made pinhole cameras and my dad explained what was going to happen. We even went on holidays to somewhere further south in order to be closer to the path of the totality (I can’t remember where and it’s too late to call mum and ask). I have a vivid memory of sitting in the car watching the dot of light in my pinhole camera being slowly … Continue reading Planning ahead

Family & Parenting, Pets and Other Wildlife, Stuff About Me2 Comments

Today in photos

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Tom played soccer this morning. We sat on the front deck enjoying the sunshine. David hunted siblings And then we went on a picnic with my mum AND Adam’s mum, took Clara to a dog park for the first time (she was in HEAVEN), played basketball with the kids, and completely failed to take a single photo. It’s been a particularly awesome sort of day 🙂 Continue reading Today in photos

Food Glorious Food, Stuff About Me6 Comments

Things I want to try cooking.

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What we have here is a bunch of stuff that I’ve been wanting to try my hand at for, in most cases, a very long time. Perhaps if I list them here I might even make some of them eventually. Soft pretzels – because OMG YUM! Mozzarella Fresca – I think this would be such an awesome thing to do with the kids, beats going to a cheese factory to learn about cheese making. Beef jerky – there are lots of recipes around, many of them seem to be characterised by a certain vagueness with instructions such as “add some … Continue reading Things I want to try cooking.