One mum, one son, four guinea pigs: Celebrating budget interiors, the joy of the ordinary, and cake.
Daily life is heading back to normal, but still a quieter normal for us, while the world is erupting. Even though COVID-19 restrictions have eased in the past couple of weeks, we are still only really going to work and school and slowly striking a few things off the to-do list. A tradesman came to…
Continue reading ➞ The vaccine, the vomiting, The Voice and a visual disturbance.
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.
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
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 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. 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!…
Continue reading ➞ Hello, I’m back… Spring stories and Winter wrap-up all in one
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
Hello! Well we're well into nearly at the end of March now and that means we're well overdue for the Alexcellent Summer Retrospective. But hey, this is Canberra in March, therefore still hot, and it still feels like summer to me. There's also the second-half of last year retrospective that I really need to get to,…
Continue reading ➞ Summer Retrospective – birthdays, beaches, green thumbs and too much leg.
How is it already nearly the middle of 2018! It is already the third day of Winter as I write this, a Sunday morning, and outside my window I see clear blue sky with an overlay of bare dark branches wearing a skirt of sparse golden leaves. They are losing their battle to cling on,…
While I was thinking about blogging, but not blogging, here's the summer life we were living in Summer 2017/18. Click on the pics to read the captions.
