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...
holidays
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
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
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
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…
…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...
A Long Drive
It’s the eve of the school holidays. Tomorrow Amelia is heading 8 hours north with my parents for two weeks. Two whole weeks. When Mum first suggested it, I was totally stoked. The thought...
There’s a hole in the fence where the kids get in
Summer holidays just got better. There’s a brand new gate in our fence between us and the neighbours. Now the kids next door suddenly appear at my elbow while we are at the dinner...
Vintage Holidaying
I have an old article from Life Etc. snipped out about dream-green holidays which includes Vintage Vacations in the UK. In a parallel universe where I get to go on dream holidays I would...