How we came to meet Thorpey
I was sitting at the netball watching England play New Zealand yesterday morning (awesome! 🙌🏻), when I noticed I had a missed call from my cousin Karina. So I called her back. She too had been at the...
View Article6 Gorgeous Homemade Keepsakes For Mum
There are certain homemade gifts that every Mum needs to have right? Like hand prints, for example. Hand prints on cards, hand prints on poems, hand prints on paintings – these are your child’s own...
View ArticleMake It Monday: Minion Slime
Someone suggested to me that I should share on the blog, some of the crafty projects that we do here at SRC HQ. Because in case you haven’t noticed, we do quite a lot of it. Sharing it here might help...
View ArticleLindsay’s Birthday Mudcake Hack
Hey you guys. Have you noticed that the word ‘hack’ has enjoyed a surge in popularity these days? There are kitchen hacks, cleaning hacks, parenting hacks, writing hacks and so many other hacks, all...
View ArticleThe High School Reunion
I wasn’t going to my high school reunion on Saturday night. I’d made up my mind 12 months ago. I was hoping that something else would come up on the social calendar that night so that I had a...
View ArticleThe Last Laugh: My Origami Shoulder Cosy
It was about 12 months ago when I was out for an evening walk with two buddies of mine when I mentioned in passing that I was learning to crochet. They exchanged glances and stifling their giggles they...
View ArticleAnd away he goes…
We were all up at ridiculous o’clock this morning to put Lindsay on the bus for his school excursion to Canberra. This will be his fourth and final one before high school! Holy dooly, where did that...
View ArticleKnock Your Socks Off Salmon Alfredo Pasta
Would I be right in saying that everybody loves pasta? Like, even the fussiest of fussy eaters will eat pasta won’t they? Even if you have an allergy you can usually buy or make your own gluten or egg...
View ArticleOverwhelm
You know what my trouble is? I make things complicated for myself. Yes I do. It’s been…(hang on while I check….) …..six months? SIX MONTHS since I wrote on my blog! Holy guacamole. And in that time...
View ArticleLessons learned from hurdling
I was thirteen-years-old when I burst through the front door of my childhood home. ‘MUM!’ I shouted. ‘Guess what? I made it to Diocesan! I’m representing the school at the Diocesan Regional Athletics...
View ArticleMuse
Well helloooo! I’m back! Gosh it’s been a while hasn’t it? I’ve been busy. Really, really busy. And also, a bit flat. Last year was a tough year, for all sorts of reasons. Just haven’t felt brave...
View ArticleThe Plant Lover Who Peaked Too Soon
Like most folk where I live near Tamworth in NSW, I became pretty excited earlier in the week by the news that there was a very unusual weather pattern forming that was going to bring us rain. Lots and...
View ArticleRithum/rythmn/rithem/whatever
Hey for a little while there…you know…for a fleeting moment, I had a bit of a rythmn going. Did you notice? I was blogging every Sunday! Well, okay there were TWO Sundays. Two consecutive Sundays. I...
View ArticleIn my dreams
You know you’ve been in isolation too long when you dream about toilet paper. Last night I dreamt that I found a 36 pack of toilet paper in the builder’s aisle at Bunnings. I know. How’s my luck?! Here...
View ArticleTaking Stock: April 2020
Well will you look at this?! Two blog posts two days running! This is extremely unusual . These however, are unusual times. It occurred to me yesterday when I was feeling disconnected from my friends...
View ArticleIsodays
Today felt like the first day of true self-isolation for me, because this will be the first week that all but one of my daycare families will keep their children home. The one child I will have won’t...
View ArticleHow podcasts saved me
When I wrote last week about the people who helped drag me out of a hole, there were several others that I forgot to mention… …my favourite podcast hosts. There are too many to mention and since they...
View ArticleIsodays #2
I woke up this morning to the sound of a bird flapping at my window. I noticed how chilly my nose was and clocked the temperature in my bedroom at about 4 degrees Celsius. Not because my nose knows but...
View ArticleBaking Bread
I have a confession to make. In the summer of 1979 my Grandma found what can only be described as a black, dried out, furry morsel of bread behind a couch in her lounge room. ‘Who hid their sandwich...
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