-
It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Autumn.
Don’t you love how the leaves of autumn look? Oh, and that lovely slightly scratchy rustle they make across streets and side walks as the wind gently puffs them this way and that? Don’t you love (not as much, mind you) sweeping those leaves up? And how there never look to be as many of…
-
In Praise of Tea Tree Oil. Easter at The White House.
SSG Manor 2.0, I love you so. You’ve only been a part of our lives for six months but we’ve already made so many happy memories together. You’re generally pretty easy to look after and your combination of the old and the new makes you both easy to live with and wonderful to look at.…
-
Easter In One Word: Restful.
It’s going to be a challenge, but I wonder if it’s going to be possible to write a post Easter blog entry without it featuring any photographs of food? For most of us, myself definitely included, this has been a weekend of indulgence. But it’s also been lovely to have had the time and opportunity…
-
Australian Print Media: Then and Now. ‘Cuba on the Edge of Change’.
The print media landscape in Australia has changed markedly over the last few months. At first, the changes were all pretty peripheral to my interests. With Bauer Media taking over the interests of ACP Magazines in Australia in 2012, low lying, low readership titles were the first to go. Then titles like Top Gear and…
-
Lovin’ Life: 27/3/2016. Easter Kindness.
It’s still the Easter long weekend, how can you not love life today? These are a few of my happy place memories from the weekend so far. Watching Preschooler (I’m on notice now since I accidentally called ‘long daycare with preschool hours’ just ‘daycare’ the other day) SSG lick the whisk after we made icing for…
-
Easter Baking, Without the Oil. Languid Long Weekends.
It’s not a bad life, this time of the year. The weather’s cooler which makes it that much easier to take advantage of the relaxed sleep routine (or lack thereof) of the Easter Long Weekend. I just seem to have so much more time on my hands today, for some reason. Housework’s getting done,…
-
Baked Oats For Easter.
Oh bless. Here I am on the first day of my Easter break (don’t be a hater….. I’m working Easter Monday as penance for these extra days off) up at the crack of dawn and eating baked oats. Oats and oatmeal are the kind of breakfasts that are perfect for the cooler weather. Well, it…
-
Life Continues, Almost Carelessly.
The artist Plantu’s cartoon for LeMonde. It wouldn’t be right to blog today without acknowledging Brussels. And before it, Istanbul and for what seems like always – places like Syria, Yemen and Palestine. The hatred that precipitated these attacks is beyond religion yet it is so easy for many of us to define certain religions…
-
Easter Food Shopping, Finally. Bobble Bottles. Glad Wrap Cutters.
As we head into the half way point of our first of two consecutive short working weeks (fist pump), time’s gone all fluid for me. As a part timer who officially works Monday, Wednesday and Friday, tomorrow feels like is my Friday. Then I work Easter Monday before returning to work for the Wednesday which…
-
Half A Bucket Of Rain. The Black or Dark Navy Dilemma Is Real. Chicken and Leek Pie.
Even by my crude measure of today’s rainfall, it’s been a wet Monday indeed. I guestimated about 15cm of rain from my reading of the height of the water in my backyard bucket but today’s rainfall map from the BOM puts my area at around 65mm for the day. Could’ve fooled me. Because this lovely…