From the Starlight Children’s Foundation website: Living with illness or injury can cause enormous strain in the lives of children and their families. The pain, loneliness and isolation that sick children feel dominates their lives, and they often miss out on normal experiences that healthy children take for granted. Starlight provides programs integral to the total care of…
Yesterday, in a move of surprising organisation I’m not normally used to in holiday time, I was able to muster the children together and get them out the door and down to the local shoe shop by 9.10am. Unfortunately, a great many other mothers were even more organised and by the time I arrived I…
There IS such a thing as chicken marengo! I didn’t know! On the other hand, Adam’s bestowed upon me his best withering look of dismay when I shoved this recipe under his nose. “You’re joking.” “What? I didn’t know it was a thing.” “A ‘thing’? What else would it be?” “I thought marengo was a…
One of my writing buddies, Mark Welker, made the above video and I’ll let him describe it: Untold numbers of manuscripts are started, finished, and abandoned at the antique desks of Varuna House. There is always a cup of tea on the boil, a well stocked jar of chocolate biscuits, and enough creative space to…
I devoured this book in about two days and in this time would not shut up about it to my nearest and dearest. Really, with big saucer eyes and with a white-hot grip on your arm they’ll say, “Walk away now! Don’t get her started.” But you’ll listen to me, won’t you? Yes? Excellent. Now,…
If my Twitter stream is anything to go by – and it usually is – then a great many people here in Australia are returning to their desks today to resume work after several festive weeks of relaxed debauchery (if debauchery can be deemed ‘relaxing’, I suppose). If you find yourself in such a position,…
I’m two weeks (three?) behind with posting my ‘one recipe a week’ challenge and I’m working on getting back up to speed on that front. This pork recipe is modified from the Marie Claire Real + Simple cookbook by Michele Cranston. From memory her recipe is for pork cutlets, but I had these whoppers in the…
We ventured down to Adventure Park at the beginning of last week. The kids had already begun pestering us to go there thanks to the television ad campaign going on at the moment, so you can imagine their delight when – just this once – I was able to say, “We ARE going!” Their excitement…
Her: I’m going to live a simpler life in 2012. Pare everything back to the essentials. Him: Okay. Her: Take more photos, too. Him: MORE photos? Her: More meaningful ones, anyway. Him: Right. Her: I need to remember to Instagram them more. Him: Fair enough. Her: And experiment with all the new frames and add-ons….
