Everyone is so busy at this time of the year. School recently finished, Christmas is on its way, kids are on holidays and already there is this pressure to relentlessly entertain, presents are to be bought, Christmas day menus to be planned, the list goes on and on and on. Everyone I run into seems…
I have never been good with labels. Take Oprah for example. She has just taken Australia by storm with her tour of speaking engagements to massive arenas. She is a media mogul without a doubt – I am happy with that label. She is a billionaire – also a good label for her. As for…
I thought I was losing my mind this week though there were a couple of viable alternatives to insanity. Considering that nobody really wants to admit to losing their mind, I seriously gave a lot of thought to both. The first alternative was that someone was choosing random moments to break into my house. The…
I have been having one of those no good awful days; make that 2 bloody awful days. I woke up dark and twisted Monday morning and have not really become untwisted as yet. You know when it doesn’t matter what you do, what you think, what rays of sunshine you pump through your little Pollyanna…
I often wander to myself if I am destined to repeat some mistakes over and over again. I have always loved that quote by Anne of Green Gables “Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?” Sometimes, that little saying is quite reassuring when you go…
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…