September 2009

No owl eyes today 5

No owl eyes today

After a blindingly cold weekend the sun came out to say hello again today. Hello sun. Stick around for a while, okay?

The future in a cup 20

The future in a cup

Sadly I have missed a couple of days, so close to the end of my month of posting every day. I also completely forgot to take photos of my last three dinners to upload...

Bird Brain 7

Bird Brain

I’m afraid to say that I have caught the birding bug. It’s pretty hard to avoid around here… today we saw a Black Fronted Dotterel and my day was made.  But now my brother...

Guess what we’re reading 17

Guess what we’re reading

Too exciting – I’m loving doing all the voices. I do a very good Ron, and a passable Hagrid. Off to watch multiple episodes of 30 Rock. Did I mention we are having a...

An indoors kind of morning 20

An indoors kind of morning

The rain fell all evening and all night and woke us at 6am. It’s an indoor kind of morning – with the prospect of wading in mud this afternoon. So I am still in...

Sunshine before the rain 15

Sunshine before the rain

Top to bottom: Amelia’s bird list, Totoro playing to itself in the sitting room (there’s too much else to do to be sitting around watching tv  – nice for a change), a cup of...

Daisy daisy 8

Daisy daisy

Hello from the NSW South West Slopes Firstly, I have to tell you that the chicken schnitzel with gravy at the Golf Club on Saturday night was absolutely delicious. Hopefully we will be going...

Sleepless first nights 4

Sleepless first nights

New holiday routines (or no routine), new bedrooms, strange noises, funny shapes in the dark… two small nocturnal people… one so terrified of the shaggy pine tree silhouted against the night sky outside her...

Here be holidays… 4

Here be holidays…

…but I’ll still be posting ever day. (BTW – for those wondering and for those who asked, the prints above our bed in yesterday’s photo are from Christina Gordon – and our bedspread is...