Sitting in a park on a late Sunday afternoon, the southerly wind quickens, skirting the edges of the plastic, novelty tablecloths of the birthday party table. The clouds gather, not ominously, more curiously, around the near horizon. We all gather our collars round our throats. Luckily, I am nursing my son. My friend, sitting next…
Friday 8.30pm “…And that’s all we have time for on Better Homes and Gardens this week. We hope we’ve inspired you to get stuck into painting or some other project around the home this weekend—” “Oh, sod off Johanna,” I say. “I’ll be lucky if I sweep the fish finger crumbs off the floor.” ****** I think I’m going…
Edited to add: Click here to get the program pdf. if you’d prefer Anyone who’s in town next month and has an interest in writing might like to come along to the Emerging Writer’s Festival – featuring yours truly! Here’s the program. It doesn’t include times yet, but they will be added soon. But here,…
Edited to add: Due to the craziness of this week, I’ve neglected to show the link for Kim’s latest Surprise! update. Well here it is! ****** Today is a very exciting day. Kim and I, plus my friend who will be acting as typesetter and designer of Surprise!, are all meeting up at my place to sit…
Can you believe that Australia’s Funniest Home Videos REJECTED this? Well WE think it’s funny. This was 22 month old Keira at 6pm on a day she hadn’t napped. The Simpsons were coming on, hence us whispering that as an incentive to stay awake but, nup, she was gone. Excuse our sniggering at the end…
I am about to make a confession; the same confession which, when I made it to a girlfriend who has a daughter the same age as Keira, was enough for her to reach out and grasp my shoulders and say, “Oh, Thank God it’s happening to you too. I thought it was just us.” And…
My breasts are leaking again. It’s become quite the cosmic lottery; in the ‘okay, it’s been a pretty ordinary week so what can we do to guild the lily’ kind of way. When we went to Riley’s latest health check-up, I mentioned this annoying recurrence to the maternal nurse who nodded knowingly. “The human body is…
Several months ago I went and got all my moles checked over at the skin cancer clinic. My chatty doctor waved at the scary machine in the corner and said, “We only get that out if we’re worried about a mole and we need to take a photo to make comparisons and for tests.” The other…
Kids playing Frisbee on the cricket oval (this cricket oval). Lateness of the post is due to the incredible windstorms we had yesterday which were quite devastating in my area. Luckily, we weren’t damaged; unfortunately, most of my neighbours can’t say the same.
