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Life Stages

May 14, 2010

Life comes in waves. First are the playdate and sleepover days. It seems to take forever for the next wave, the 18th’s and 21st’s to come along. Then the wedding invitations start to trickle in, before becoming an avalanche in a few years’ time. Babies start arriving and the playdates start all over again. By [...]

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Help Me!

May 6, 2010

I have been living with no internet connection for the most part of a week. Let me tell you, it sucks. I can quite happily go tech free for weeks at a time when we’re camping. At home it’s different though. There a lots of things I need to be distracted from here. Like ironing. [...]

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A lesson in not getting ahead of yourself

April 28, 2010

OK, it’s really a lesson in not getting ahead of myself. It began in the wee hours of this morning and involved our dog. Our dog has a habit of teaching me lessons. Damned dog. He’s a mini schnauzer, although you probably wouldn’t guess that by looking at him. He sports a very bad home [...]

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The Great Footy Team Debate

April 27, 2010

There’s been a quiet discord sizzling in our family of five. It bubbles to the surface on weekends. ”Who do you ‘team’ for?”, is the question in everyone’s lips*. For eight years, The Thinker has been attempting to recruit one of the kids to his side. The Dark Side. The Blues. For eight years he’s [...]

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Play things

April 13, 2010

Over Easter we piled into the car and took the caravan down to Eagle Point, in Gippsland. As always, the kids were very excited about going away. Perhaps even moreso this time, because we managed to squeeze their bikes into the car. Eagle Point was a great central location for exploring east Gippsland and the [...]

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The Food Garden

October 26, 2009

Now that the weather’s warmer more often than it’s cold, we’ve been tempted out to the food garden. At the moment we’re not getting much in the way of food, although hopefully that will change in the next eight weeks or so. We have been pinching some leaves off our little iceberg lettuces for salad. [...]

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