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Recharge

August 26, 2009

I love Wednesdays. It’s the one day I get to be a real homebody. No errands to run (if I’m organised), no after school activities, no kinder drop offs and pick ups. All that running around is wearying. I’m an introvert and I need some hermit time to recharge.
This Wednesday is extra special. I have [...]

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The World is an Amazing Place

August 19, 2009

Since I began walking around with my camera, I’ve been noticing much more of what’s around me. Stopping and smelling (or photographing) the roses I guess.
I notice clouds
They seem to be much more varied and often more dramatic than I ever remember. Surely it can’t be because of global warming. I’m just paying more attention.
I [...]

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Benefits of pets for kids

July 15, 2009

Do your kids love animals? We are a two pet household (a cat and a dog). Both were here before our children. The first two kids aren’t all that interested in the pets. They’ll give them a pat as they walk past sometimes, but that’s about the extent of it. Little Mermaid, on the other [...]

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A day at the beach

June 26, 2009

Photos by Leanne Nelson
A couple of weeks ago I decided to shut the door on the housework, packed Little Mermaid, a snack and my camera and headed down to the beach for the day.

We were all rugged up as the weather was looking typically winterish. It turned out to be a beautiful day, although [...]

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Windmills

May 13, 2009

Little Mermaid loves windmills. It took me a little while to figure that out because she used to call them wombats. I was often surprised at the number of wombats she could spot in the middle of the day on western Victorian roadsides.
One holiday, less that an hour after we’d left home she declared it [...]

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Early rise

April 7, 2009

I love daylight savings. The extra hours of daylight make a walk or game of backyard cricket after tea a lovely reality. That said, there are a couple of times when I wish for the clocks to be back to normal. The first is usually the week after daylight savings begins. Dragging myself and the [...]

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