A good night in
When your husband is away I know you are meant to “play” but if you have two small children…well this is play because it involves sitting down for longer than two minutes and not having to share….and...
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Back to reality. I decided as I posted on sunday I’d skip yesterday as I felt a bit blue having to come down from the hills. It was so good to snuggle my Gurus. Weird as it sounds your kids smell so...
View ArticleWhy I Call Them Gurus
Today was a rough day. Shopping day, which is a say no more. But I had to wrangle with extra shopping for Two Foot Guru’s birthday on saturday. She wanted a big party with all the kids from her class...
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We took her cake (I use this term fairly loosely) into school. Yes, a watermelon and an ice cream cake. Sort of three green hills, with the knight standing amongst them. The kids devoured everything....
View ArticleFlickering sunlight
I spot a double rainbow when I go out to the laundry. Spring has started to flit past us. Little scents, sights and sounds start to create a spring like air of pre-burst expectation. The temperatures...
View ArticleInside the old milk can
As some of you may know, this blog is named after my mail box. It is a rusty old milk can (of the kind they used to use to cart milk around before the tanker was invented). It is only the bearer of...
View ArticleA Few Holiday Snaps
Nectarine tree starts to change colour The garden is starting to look like a sea of colour Any more children of the 1980’s that get this? A small bunch of partially mangled flowers (the only type at...
View ArticleKicking piles of leaves joyfully
Working in the front room of our shack. School holidays – not only do I just roll about in the time I get to spend with TFG but our shack doesn’t have internet. This bugs me so little I’ve not pushed...
View ArticleThe wibbly-wobbly stitches of love
Zigzaging around the edge because I don’t have an overlocker. Mamma – you know we had PJ day at school and I wore my favourite bunny PJs from Nanna? Yep. Well…at playtime I fell down on the rough...
View ArticleSoil and toes
Australia’s most connected sheep – the NBN runs through their paddock over the road from us. The sparkling sheep in their ‘morning room’. Their paddock is divided up into rooms in their minds, it...
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