Regina came home today with a little brood of baby chicks. In all the sadness about Bossy and his lady love having a dirty weekend which was not in fact a dirty weekend but more of an abduction, and then having another one of my girls taken I had forgotten about Regina. Regina is our hen…
Rissie had the big talent show today. I don’t know if I am incapable of reading and digesting newsletters, I just miss things or I am obtuse but I never seem to be up to date with what is happening at the school. So when she came home yesterday and told me that it was…
I decided to throw my routine out the window today. For anyone who knows me they would know that that is a very bold move. I am entirely a creature of habit. I had got to bed late last night, I had had a lovely night with some friends shooting the breeze for few…
I can’t find Bossy and one of the hens ( I think Sparkles is missing, though it could be Snow or Chocolate but as to the intricacies of the names of our chickens I need to check with the kids). I only noticed this afternoon that Bossy and his female was missing when I went…
My little girl Rissie told me she had auditioned for the talent show at school. As I had never heard of the talent show and she often spends hours strutting around the house in a camp fashion warbling to Peter Allen, I assumed it was part of her elaborate fantasy world and ignored it. You…
My little home town of Tenterfield has not let me down. A while ago I was lamenting the onset of an early summer and complaining that I had not had enough of spring. Now I am rejoicing in the return of winter. We have had a few nights in succession of thunder, lightning and…
I love my kids, I truly, truly do. They are my world, but sometimes they make me shake my head and wonder. Wonder a lot of things that are best left unsaid. I am self-employed as a consultant and generally work from home. I tend to get out once a week to see my main…
I find Facebook and Social Media endlessly fascinating. It can quite happily fill one of my crazy Friday nights along with some red wine and Netflix. In the last 12 months or so I have often wondered if it is because I live in a small country town and it is Facebook obsessed as I can’t…
It always amazes me when relatively random strangers take it upon themselves to make comments about your life. It reminds me of when I was pregnant and people I did not know would come up to me and touch my stomach. I am not someone who is very comfortable with physicality so I found it…
I am coming to the conclusion that there are a lot of bat-shit crazy people in this world. That little fact crosses my mind on regular occasions along with WTF. “WTF, he/she is bat-shit crazy.” It is also something I really like saying. Bat-shit crazy. It has a ring to it. I have no idea…
Although it is Friday afternoon and I usually lash out, this afternoon I am simply not in the mood. Normally it would be a bottle of red, something scrummy, a few too many hours on netflix and staying up past my normal bedtime of 9pm – generally just being wicked. Tonight however I am not…
I would never have thought I could love the four seasons so much. Every time a new season begins, it is usually timed to arrive when you are ready for a change, so the change is welcome and seems to be extra beautiful because of that fact. I am not sure which is my favourite…