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Three Things on Halloween

Tidying Up…
We have friends coming to stay tomorrow and it is just the boot up the bum I have needed to get our house back into some kind of order. Tomorrow I will do the every day boring house cleaning jobs, with helpers, and they are actually pretty helpful. Tonight I tackled the study…. it […]

If you can’t beat em….

We don’t do Halloween in our house. Growing up Halloween was just not something that was celebrated here, though in recent years, I guess with more and more US culture being assimilated into our own culture more and more people are celebrating…. but not us. Being on the other side of the world it is […]

Wordless Wednesday - Guess that Baby Edition

An old photo of my tiny baby girl…. anyone care to guess which one?

Three Little Things From My Day…

Chasing my tail…
We’ve been almost late for everything today and it looks like dinner will be no different. I wonder if the rushing from thing to thing will ever end?
Worrying…
It looks our new rooster may be on his last legs. I’ve had a good read of Back Yard Poultry and I am pretty sure he […]

Mental…

I always knew it would happen… by the time mid October arrived I knew life would be mental, and I was right. Birthdays, christmas stuff, more birthdays, end of year stuff, friends coming to visit stuff, holiday stuff… just stuff, lots and lots of stuff all racing around in my head competing for time and […]

Weekly Winners - the exhausted edition.

It’s been a loooooooong day.
It was the Twindaoes first ballet concert rehearsal today - the first of many before the big event in early December. They had their first try on of costumes and and first go at dancing in front of an audience (all the mums and other older girls). They did pretty well […]

A Man of Few Words.

My boy doesn’t say much. He is the strong silent type…. Actually he isn’t silent at all really. He grunts and shrieks and screams and moans and clicks and snorts and moos.

Yep, he moos.
Really, it’s not so strange when you think about it. His first ‘word’ was ‘Duck’, closely followed by ‘quack’. Now […]

Happy Birthday Baldy Boy.

It is my darling husband’s birthday today.

We celebrated on Tuesday - his pretend birthday, because he had to work today and then, as he does almost every Friday night, he’s gone out to play cards with ‘the boys’ so we won’t see him at all today (we were all asleep when he left and […]

Wordless Wednesday - Bush Tucker

Hungry Anyone?

If you lived at our place before the English invaded this country this is what you would have had for dinner - witchetty grubs . They don’t taste revolting - though I’ve only ever tried them cooked and there for not squirming about, but you can eat them raw (or should that be […]

The Growing Challenge - Sprouting and Planting Out!

My little window sill seed sprouter trays are going well. I popped in another round of seeds early last week and with the warm weather and sunshine we’ve had recently they have all begun to pop up. In the photo above you can see zucchinis going great guns, as well as some cucumbers and pumpkins. […]

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