January 2011

Berry Bliss

January 31, 2011

It was hot here yesterday. So what else to do on a hot hot day but drive four hours up the freeway to High Grove Chestnut and Berry Farm to pick berries! Despite it being the very end of the berry picking season, we still managed to pick raspberries, blue berries, waldo berries (a type [...]

Reveal Mop Winner!

January 30, 2011

Thanks to everyone who entered my Rubbermaid Reveal Mop give away! I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed (though that’s not exactly the right word I think) your comments. Some of them were hysterically funny, and others were just totally and utterly gross! If I was choosing a winner based on the comments the [...]

Gone Swimming.

January 28, 2011

My blog got a little mention in The Age Melbourne Magazine today, and I was rather chuffed to see the word ‘Picklebums’ in print, in a ‘serious’ newspaper, especially along side some other really fabulous Melbourne bloggers. Now I’ve known about this article for a while now, and I was planning on writing a super [...]

Rhubarb Fizz

January 27, 2011

Rhubarb is one of the things seems to grow really well at the Pickle Farm with little or no input from us. Even the recent flooding which left the entire veggie garden was under 20 cms of water and killed everything else didn’t deter the rhubarb. We are always on the look out for new [...]

Mmmmm Food!

January 26, 2011

It’s all systems go in the food department for Master Quatro! It’s been an interesting adventure in technicolour vomit, but he’s finally decided that food is good, food is yum, gimme gimme GIMME more foooood!!! You can read more about how we started solids over at Childhood101 today. I’m playing Wordless (almost) Wednesday at My [...]

Magic Painting!

January 25, 2011

When your sisters have gone to do something special without you, there needs to be some sort of fabulousness at home to even the score. On this occasion fabulousness for a three and a half year old was painting, but not just any kind of painting…. magic painting! Stuff we used.. An old wax candle [...]

Rubbermaid Reveal Mop – Review and Give Away.

January 24, 2011

My floor is clean! Ok, it’s not all clean…. but I cleaned up that splatter of baby spew that had been beside the couch for longer than I care to confess. I got this funky new Rubbermaid Reveal Mop in the mail the other day, and my hard wood floors have never been this clean! [...]

A Few Sunshiney Links.

January 22, 2011

I’m not here… I’m outside in the sunshine. But in case it isn’t as sunshiney at your place, or you have some other reason to be in front of your screen, check out some of these good links… Kind of Life by Tara Whitney at Just be Blogged The gorgeous image and quote above is [...]

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Printable Love or Lunch Box Notes.
February 3, 2012

I am back making school lunches and next week my big boy will need lunch for kinder (preschool) too, thankfully only once a week, but all of them want to know when I will start leaving notes in their lunch boxes! So I think it’s time for some new lunch box notes. I am not [...]

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Wordless Wednesday – Printable Christmas Cheer
December 14, 2011

We are in need of a little brightness around here, and some Christmas decorations that Noah can’t pull down and destroy… Click on any of the above images to download an A4 (letter sized) printable poster to add some Christmas cheer. Or shrink them down and print them onto cards and share the joy. Check [...]

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