After Thursday’s adventure of spontaneously booking 3 around the world tickets and emptying my bank account I actually went to bed and did not sleep. I literally did not sleep for one minute for the whole night. When the alarm finally went off I jumped out of bed with relief that the night was over. …
I have just done something that has left me sitting here feeling incredibly nauseous and is probably completely insane. But I am also filled with a sense of adventure and an overwhelming appreciation of a future filled with the unknown. That’s me being Pollyanna, because another voice in my head is telling me I am…
The kids have increasingly taken to cooking of late, particularly Rissie. She does everything from scratch and works on her own, only calling me if I am needed. I know it sounds awful, but I hate it. Bad, bad mother. It is brilliant that they are cooking, reading recipes and making things – brilliant, brilliant,…
Over the last few days (or maybe weeks) we have been having relatively warm weather for our little neck of the woods. I say relative as I still have not gotten used to how mild the summers are up here in the mountains of New England. I can remember vividly a summer night at my…
Oh joy and bliss. Regina’s chicks have arrived. She won’t be sitting on fossilised eggs for all eternity! After obsessing about Regina turning into a fossil because of her dud eggs I went out to the chook house last night to check on her. All the chickens were huddled together and the first thing I…
Next time Regina starts sitting on her eggs I am going to have to put it in the diary. Not that it would make any difference as I have no idea how long it takes to create a baby chicken from scratch. I could google it, but I have already explained my ambivalence to google…
I had another episode with Telstra today. As per usual I ended up a deranged mess. When a box arrived this afternoon I felt sick to my stomach as soon as I saw it as I knew what was in it. I had hoped that it would get delayed somewhere like the back of Bourke…
I sometimes look at my children and ask nobody in particular as I do not expect an answer – “where did you come from?” I am not that stupid that I don’t physically remember where they came from – I remember every single second of the longest pregnancy in the world and the Caesar delivery…
I continue to be fascinated by my flock. There are so many questions in my head that remain unanswered. How do the eggs form? How does the rooster fertilise the egg? If he does that when the eggs are inside how in god’s name does that work? Does the poor little hen constantly feel like…
I love my chooks and continue to be fascinated by them. The dynamics of the flock are constantly changing. Right now I feel like I have various well known school identities in my back yard. Bossy and Bossy II have separated from the flock and are just doing boy things. Bossy I am sure would…
When I first woke this morning, for a few seconds I relished the fact that it was Sunday. Then I realised with something akin to horror that it was actually Monday. For a moment I wanted to pull the covers over my bed, smash my phone against the wall and tell the whole world to…
Archie got his eyes checked yesterday. The reason being is that over the last couple of months he has been getting quite severe head-aches at random times that literally wipe him out. I thought there was a link to him reading but I was not sure. Rather than thinking about brain tumours, the dreaded MEN2A…