Whew! The year is over and for the first time ever, I listed every book read during the year. Little did I know as the year started what an excellent year this would be for staying at home and reading … Read More
Call me old-fashioned, but I love a fresh start. And here are my resolutions for the year: * NOT TO WRITE ANY BOOKS!!!! * To READ more lots and lots of books * To slow down, slowly, surely and steadily … Read More
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. Benjamin Franklin So wrong, Benjamin!! Guests can be an asset to a busy household and here’s how. My Mum and my Aunty Heather have been home for a week now. They … Read More
So our quest to makeover our Jervis Bay beach house is starting to come together. See photos of the ‘before’ version here, and see what we bought on a big shopping trip to Ikea here. This week, painters have been … Read More
My weekly diary to record how I’m doing on my Do Less and Stay Calm goals for 2015. A way of keeping myself accountable. I drove for hours and hours and hours over two days this week and had one … Read More
Look, I’m not saying for a moment that having a husband with a fly in fly out (FIFO) job is all bad. There are many advantages, most grouped under two heading: Cold, hard Cash Warms cuddles etc BUT… I’m not … Read More
I’m thrilled today to have a post sent over from Scotland by my younger sister, Morag. Mo, her husband and wee boys and my mum went to North Uist for their summer holidays in late July this year. They had … Read More
Jeez, don’t ask me!!
Actually and seriously, I do have something to say on the subject of not coping, an area I have plenty of experience in.
This post is brought to you by all the people who’ve ever said to me and other mums of kids with additional needs kids/twins, triplets and more/ FIFO husbands/babies and toddlets etc etc
‘I don’t know how you cope?’
Well, the PLAN had been to write a good, long post about that grande old dame, the Carrington Hotel in Katoomba. I stayed there last Friday night, as a guest of the NSW Branch of the Australian Multiple Birth Club, … Read More
Typical Scottish April weather we’ve been having here. Maybe a wee bit nippier than usual.
There’s sunshine when it’s raining, then lowering grey skies, then wee blue patches. Always changeable, very breezy.
You need to be prepared for all possibilities, and go nowhere without a waterproof, a hat, scarf and gloves.
Life’s like that too, isn’t it? Changeable.