The world sometimes feels like it's splitting open at the seams. The first half of the year has certainly been eventful. How will things pan out the rest of the year? I feel as though life with the threat of COVID-19 marks a new era. We need to learn to navigate this post-COVID world. By…
Canberra
June wrap up: Life after lockdown.
Current COVID situation Social restrictions have eased recently in Canberra, where there has been no COVID cases for weeks now. Canberra feels like a safe place to be and we all need to maintain social distancing practices so it stays that way. But our state to the south hasn't fared so well. As I write…
Edited highlights: Mother’s Day, social visits and bye bye home learning.
Lunar phases, as told in Oreo cookies. Life is getting back to some semblance of "normal" after restrictions and now that school is back and I'm working five days a week in the office things certainly feel that way. Thought it was time for a catch-up. Back to school Public schools in the ACT began…
Continue reading ➞ Edited highlights: Mother’s Day, social visits and bye bye home learning.
April “school holidays” 2020 – Tik Tok, nature walks and essential slime
I'm loving our regular sunset walks on Red Hill. Term 2 started here in the ACT last Tuesday after a quiet and different "school holidays" which took in Easter at the beginning and Anzac Day at the end. My son George and I go to Sydney to see my family every holidays. We usually celebrate…
Continue reading ➞ April “school holidays” 2020 – Tik Tok, nature walks and essential slime
Cruel Summer (but there was still some fun to be had)
I don't mind Summer but I'm always ready to say goodbye to it and move onto the next season. It's the end of February 2020, we're two months into the new decade and it's been a disaster-filled start for many - fires, floods and there's the Corona virus threatening to emerge as a pandemic, and…
Continue reading ➞ Cruel Summer (but there was still some fun to be had)
Christmas 2019: Crazy guinea pig roadtrip to Sydney
Christmas seems like a long time ago now and for so many Australians, Christmas and New Year celebrations were the furthest things from their minds as they faced the prospect of losing everything in the widespread bush fires that have been burning for weeks now in many parts of Australia. My son George and I…
Continue reading ➞ Christmas 2019: Crazy guinea pig roadtrip to Sydney
Hello, I’m back… Spring stories and Winter wrap-up all in one
Hello, I'm back. I started drafting a post Winter school holidays wrap up 2019: You can't go wrong in Tallong at the beginning of Term 3. Life took over and I never published it, so I've whacked it onto the end of this post now at the end of the third week of Term 4!…
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29 good things (and a few silly ones) about Winter in Canberra
Sunday of the Queen's Birthday long weekend, view from Red Hill, 4pm It's the end of the Queen's Birthday long weekend, the ski fields have officially opened, and I'm now staring down the barrel of three more working weeks until the end of the financial year, which means I'm going to be very, very, busy…
Continue reading ➞ 29 good things (and a few silly ones) about Winter in Canberra
Bye Autumn
The sun has set on Autumn. I find it such a calm season. Comfortable temperatures and muted tones. We've had a red-carpeted stroll through tree-tunnels of orange and gold. Leaves fly like earth-tone fairies across pink 5pm skies. And now suddenly, it's Winter for sure, by calendar and temperature, in case there was any doubt.…
Edited highlights: Pancakes, date loaf and Swedish foodstuffs
We like to make things in this house... well, not all the time, we can open packets and buy pre-prepared stuff with the best of them (chicken-on-a-stick, fish-in-a-box), but when we do make things from scratch we are very proud! Exhibit A: Date loaf for school election day cake stall... Fresh... Exibit B: My mothers'…
Continue reading ➞ Edited highlights: Pancakes, date loaf and Swedish foodstuffs
