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Menu plan – Leaving on a jet plane edition

August 11, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Last week’s menu plan was such a hit I’m back with another one this week.  Only this time The Thinker is doing some of the work for me. Because … I’m off to Adelaide for a girly weekend!  I can hardly believe it. Two whole days of gossiping, eating and drinking with [...]

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I’ve lost my bearings

August 6, 2010

They say a change is as good as a holiday.  It’s been a good three months since we had a trip which might explain why we’ve changed our bedroom around. I’ve been thinking about for a while.  Planning it all out in my head.  In there, it looked great.  And in fact, it does look [...]

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Menu Plan Resurrection

August 3, 2010

I’ve fallen off the menu plan wagon lately. I’ve become boring and predictable with our meals. It’s easy because I know what we’re going to eat without thinking about it. But it’s, well, boring and predictable. I’m over boring and predictable. More than that, swimming training has started. Swimming, combined with dancing lessons (though not [...]

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Interview with the future PM

July 30, 2010

After seeing Julia Gillard on the TV every day recently my baby, all of 5 years old, has declared she will be Prime Minister when she grows up.  No ifs or buts, it will just be so.  I love that confidence in kids that they can be and do whatever they choose, barriers be damned. [...]

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I’ve been bitten

July 27, 2010
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A strange thing happened to me on the weekend. I felt a sense of calm and clarity that has been missing for a long time. I opened my computer and did a search for some decorating blogs.  Can you believe it?  I can’t! I haven’t had an inkling of decorating urge for the longest time. [...]

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Footy’s a tough game

June 8, 2010
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On perhaps the coldest day yet this year we piled the whole family into the car and headed for a footy ground out in the middle of the country side for The Engineer’s under 10′s lightening premiership. While the girls were brushing up on their World Cup skills the boys were displaying their brutish strength. [...]

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