Lick of paint
When we have friends over, the grownups usually eat at my (small) dining table and the kids at the coffee table, but I’ve noticed lately that the 8 year-olds were getting a bit too big to be dining at the coffee table on IKEA toddler stools. I didn’t want to get a bigger dining table [...]
Brrrr
After an unusual hot spell in November, the weather has been quite pleasant. More pleasant than, say, -46C in Edmonton this week. (That’s how I remember it being in Calgary every day of my childhood, but my memory may be exaggerating slightly.) Yesterday it went up to 39 here, but the promise of a late [...]
Tweaking
I’m enjoying the rearranged computer/craft/music room. Like the bedroom closet in Poltergeist (link given for my many scaredy-cat friends who would never have seen it), this room is sucking in more and more of my favourite things. That’s a comfy chair for small handcrafts, taking advantage of the natural light. It’s also a comfy chair [...]
Somebody stop me
Even though I completely rearranged the house recently, it seems that I hadn’t had my fill of assembling furniture, disassembling furniture, or single-handedly moving furniture. I was not happy with the new computer room: Partly I was annoyed that there wasn’t enough floor space when I got the ironing board out, and I was always [...]
Creativity
As I was walking George this morning, I was thinking about the computer room, and how the desk is falling apart and the futon is lumpy and smelly and there’s stuff in the room that doesn’t need to be. I had a quick look through the IKEA catalog, but fortunately didn’t head to Richmond for [...]
Shaking things up
For something to do, I decided to rearrange the house. The back room went from to (Less monsterism.) Apparently that desk is quite big, as Tilda has tons of stuff in her new room and still has space left over for cartwheels. Literally. The front room went from to I like being able to see [...]
Hot
It’s been news-makingly hot in Melbourne lately. Officially, it was the first recorded run of 3 days over 43 C. One thing I’ve realized since putting up an outdoor thermometer is that those of us who live further inland can have significantly higher temperatures than in the City. Cooling sea breezes also take longer to [...]
Redecorating
Yvonne took Tilda along to the fair at the German school today, so I had the afternoon to myself. It was a gorgeous day – the first flip-flop day of the year for me – and yet for some reason I had a sudden need to rearrange Tilda’s room. This is how it looked before, [...]
Eeek, a mouse
Technically, I’m not allowed to tell you this because Tilda wants to be the first one to tell Daddy, but … I had found droppings on the counter a few mornings ago, but Yvonne provided me with a convenient alternative explanation by saying that cockroach droppings can be quite large. (We definitely have cockroaches, but [...]
After Verdi
So. I survived 6 nights of singing, and Tilda survived 6 sleepovers (less successfully towards the end, but she made it.) Yesterday the big reward was going to see Horton Hears a Who, and then having KFC for dinner. Today is the first day back at school after holidays, but Tilda didn’t go because she’s [...]
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