I have many things to tell you about my weekend. But I am going to start with where it ended: dropping DD to the airport. He's off to the UK for a meeting. Geez, the sooner someone patents my idea of virtual meeting rooms the richer companies will be. I was very, very sad to... Continue Reading →

I've been doing Pump for yonks and yonks and yonks. I was going to say I love it, but that's not entirely true. I dislike it less than other forms of group torture. Pump is a gym class where you do exercises with weights on a bar to a soundtrack. There's an abs track and... Continue Reading →

Actually, I just need to read stories about emotional support animals, they tickle me. It's been an emotional week in the Household, what with the youngest starting high school, the dead possum in the ceiling, the blow flies circling my head, opening my latest VISA bill and the eldest wanting to change schools. I cried... Continue Reading →

"Why do these things always happen to you?" my mum texted yesterday afternoon. "So I have something to blog about," I replied. The latest "thing" that happened to me is that a possum carked it in my roof space. Yep, the one who partied above my bedroom ceiling at 4am every morning. The one I kept... Continue Reading →

Something startling happened to my daughter over the school holidays: she grew up. At the end of year 6 she seemed too young to be heading to high school. But she's changed so rapidly over the past six weeks. Her hair is up in an expertly messy top knot. She's developed a passion for fashion.... Continue Reading →

The youngest was captivated by the cover of Delicious magazine last week. It featured ... brace yourself ... a Potato, Green Tapenade & Herb Spelt Pizza. About the only part of that recipe the youngest would normally eat is the potato. I stared at her like she was from Mars. "Who are you?" She giggled... Continue Reading →

It's feels so strange when you spend four nights with someone - a very rare occurence for DD and I - and then suddenly they're gone. DD and I had a gorgeous time together in Tassie, but the stars and our schedules aren't aligning over the next month. I dropped DD to the airport on... Continue Reading →

My Facebook friends are an eclectic bunch: people from my childhood, relatives, former work colleagues, school mums, a couple of randoms that I've got no idea HOW they came to be in my feed ... I've also made quite a few Facebook friends through the blog, our relationships growing purely in the digital space. Years... Continue Reading →

I miss the oddest things about my 23-year relationship with my ex. For example, the town where his parents live - Albury. We'd travel there a few times a year and I loved the place. I'd get up at dawn and wander up and down the main street, peeking in all the shop fronts. Albury... Continue Reading →

Our little cabin in Rocky Hills started getting steamy on the Thursday night ... and not because of anything we were doing inside ... well, not entirely ... The place wasn't even equipped with a fan, let alone air-conditioning. It's obviously not something that's required too often in that remote neck of the Tasmanian woods.... Continue Reading →