For several years a suitcase was resident in our garage. It sat in a corner behind boxes of books and dusty tools, alongside rags and assorted broken appliances, as inconspicuous as any other banished object that normally occupies such a place. Except this is not true; I know it and, out there, I think you…
I’ve just finished Pierre Boulle’s Planet of the Apes and in hindsight I think I’m relieved I’ve done so without having seen any of the movie adaptations – although I doubt anyone comes to adulthood without discovering the iconic final moments in the Charlton Heston version and what it signifies about what had happened to…
The amazing work of Guy Laramee – making carved landscapes out of books. Go to his website to see the rest. This deliciously sarcastic blog post entitled ‘You’re Bored? That’s so AWESOME!‘ has some nice links to follow if perhaps you find yourself in a similar predicament one day. I’d heard of the mosaic method…
Have you been eating chocolate today? Have you a child who is both listless and irritable from the excitement leading up to this morning, and also strung out from excessive sugar levels? Or perhaps you might have another child who has caught on to the reprimanding phrases of adults who, in reaction to the moaning…
It’s Good Friday, otherwise known as Hot Cross Bun day. It took me a long time to get motivated this morning, but I eventually got moving with a little help from the kids. What helped was I wanted to see if I could do a lazy version of a recipe I’d never tried before. …
I knew it was going to be a tall ask, but I’ve been on the hunt for a bargain after the twenty-five dollar Alannah Hill dress I wore to the Aussie Bloggers Conference last year. Could I improve on that? Turns out – yes. I wore this to the Digital Parents Conference last week and…
Our supermarket recently held one of those seasonal drawing competitions that we parents so gladly take an entry for because we say to ourselves, ‘Great, this will buy us about thirty minutes of quiet time while they’re busy working away for the chance to win a prize.’ {Raising all sorts of questions about doing a…
I’ve often talked about my food porn food magazine addiction here on the blog, but what I’ve not mentioned – and is almost as relevant, if not more so, to the fact – is that I have a general magazine weakness that requires harsh measures to keep in check. So you can imagine I was…
There was a two hour break after the close of yesterday’s sessions at the Digital Parents Conference before the dinner and drinks were scheduled to begin. I went upstairs to change in the bedroom of some girlfriends and I happened to mention something about the day that particularly struck me: the emphasis, as it ever…
