When I find a dish that I really love, I have a terrible tendency to repeat that dish over and over again until I am heartily sick of it. By the time I am finished making it for the 6th or 7th time, the thought of it actually makes me sick to the stomach. I…
After waxing lyrical about my love for the Tenterfield Baker last weekend I quite unceremoniously dumped him on Monday and decided to spend most of this week with Joe Cross the Juicing man. That might make me seem a little fickle, but the beauty of having many loves in your head simultaneously, means that you…
Archie gave me a drawing today. It was of La la land. As he gave it to me he said “This is for you Momma, so you know where you are when you go there.” Bless the little man. It was actually titled Lay Lay Land but I chose to ignore Lay Lay – made…
It is almost the end of November which means that the madness of Christmas seems to have started. Maybe it is a sign that I am getting older but the build up seems to start earlier every year. I don’t know how long Christmas themed items have been in the shops, but it feels like they…
I have been away for the weekend catching up with my father and family. It was entirely a lovely weekend but regardless of how lovely my time away is, I am always so glad to get home. It is something that amazes me; that in a few short years I have gone from being a…
I have always maintained that I am a terribly poor judge of character and that I do not possess a good ‘gut’ feeling. It takes me years to realise that someone or something is bad for me and by the time I do acknowledge that fact, I am generally calling myself a right royal eejit…
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…