Honeymoon
So my car and I drove to Lorne yesterday. It must have been the first time I’d been to the Great Ocean Road since they opened the Geelong Ring Road, which bypasses Geelong traffic by taking you through South Australia. Or so it seemed – it’s well out in the country. But I appreciated it, [...]
Sunrise, sunset
To everything, there is a season. Farewell, car lichen. Farewell, Oscar hair. Farewell, saddest corner of the car, with its odd plasticky peeling, with its memories of a particularly awful parking spot at the airport, with its proof that my car was not built to Starsky & Hutch or Dukes of Hazzard standards when I [...]
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 [...]
I gave in …
… and got an iPhone. And some new apps. I may or may not have neglected the children and dogs in my care. But I definitely photographed them.
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 [...]
Presents for me
I lasted a few days past Christmas before I desperately had to make something (although to be honest I was tempted to make something on Christmas Eve, which would have been deeply impractical given everything else I was trying to accomplish.) The first thing I started was a scarf for myself. It’s not too far [...]
Quilt for school
The school has an Art Fair every 2 years, as a fundraiser. I thought it would be nice to contribute in some way, as long as I didn’t have to sit through meetings or be anywhere at a specific time not of my choosing. So I volunteered to make a quilt that will raise funds [...]
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 [...]
Tilda turns 6 tomorrow
I am prepared. (Don’t bother looking for any fish yet!)
Back
Two weeks and a small fortune later, I’m back online. Pretty pretty. And running the latest operating system with Parental Controls, just in time for Tilda learning how to read! I’ve also bought an external hard drive, to soothe me the next time something goes wrong with the computer. I’ve put recent photos on Flickr. [...]
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