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May in the kitchen garden
I haven’t actually been able to afford to start the garden yet but I’ve sorted out what I’m going to plant when I do have it sorted (I am aiming for a Spring start!). So, if my garden was operational...
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Give them wet undies
At least four pegs per item, of course! When TFG was the age OFG is now, she was attending the Steiner school and enjoying being involved in the daily chores of the house. One of these things was...
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Making cook books earn their shelf space
I love cooking. I don’t love it in a competitive way – like those TV shows – I’ve never entered any of the CWA baking competitions. I love it in a creative way and because it is an acceptable way to...
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Ask the Gurus
We don’t have family meetings. It isn’t that I haven’t tried – but no one is really interested so it is like the hardest kind of sell there is. So I’m learning to just watch and then do. I love to read...
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Autumn Glory
Everything is starting to turn a wet, winter green with the rain starting. I haven’t gotten a lot of cleaning done this week, with one day overflowing into another. The kids have played dust ball races...
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Tuesday
A snail takes a ride on my boot as I go up and feed Monkey in the morning. Starting to get the mess in the ‘Mess’ tidied up with the help of some old cake plates I found in the back of the pantry....
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A week in a jar
This post feels like those jars of ‘Pickled People’ that were all the rage to create for a while…the days staring out at me like comically moulded fat faces. But I just haven’t had the time before now...
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Monday
Ove r the weekend TFG had another melt down – demanded to move back to WA or up to QLD to be near my family. Despite my best efforts to explain that, in the essentials, life is pretty much the same old...
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Tiny pieces of tuesday
The last piece of birthday cake. The clouds were blowing in the wrong direction this morning. The old farmer from over the road cracked me up explaining that he didn’t like pruning much either but...
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Spring Chores
Clean outdoor things, ready for the outdoor season. Clear out guttering ready for fire season. Also, if you are also receiving unseasonable rain it is a good idea to make sure your gutters are...
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The dog thinks I’m boring
Since both kids have been going to school the poor old dog has fallen victim to what appears to be clinical depression. He sighs and huffs and watches me, only with his eyes, from his bed as I patter...
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Helping hand
Thank you so much to everyone who shared their own Housewhispering approach in the comments section of my last post – each and every comment was read, mulled over, thought out – tried on for size. I...
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Weekend Journal Scribbles
A piece of the cake OFG baked and a cup of tea. Fat, sweet sultanas plop onto my plate as I take a bite of buttery raisin toast. Sitting in a hot bath I breathe in the clean lemon soap smell. An eight...
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Spring
The birds and I start battling over the veranda, me knocking down mud nest frames down with the broom and them building them up again. The rat and mouse tally starts up again as they try coming in to...
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My life as a novel
Something I’ve come to realise whilst doing this style of posting is that it feels like I am living in a novel. When I went shopping I remember scribbling down how much I liked shopping in our nearest...
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The courage to fly
With two sick kids home I would never get a huge amount done but, thanks to a lot of cups of the banana tea my dear friend send me, I am surprised with just how much I do get done. I bake an orange...
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Lungs of fire
My lungs and I are having a disagreement currently. We are constantly in a sort of industrial relations meeting. I want to breathe, my lungs want to be free. They burn and attempt to exit my body in...
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Warm, sweet
I am so tired between staying up with crook kids and coughing my way through the night – I get the kids out to the bus stop and the husband comes out to tell me there is no school that day (I forgot)....
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Awkward spotlight
An egg sandwich – that is a single egg fried in a small frypan and put between two pieces of buttered bread – with a cider. This is our friday night excuse for dinner. The children got a proper meal...
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