Do you remember my grandfather who I asked to keep in your thoughts three weeks ago as he’d just had investigative surgery into potential prostate cancer? Well this 81 year old man was helping his neighbour brand cattle during the week (as you do when you’ve been ill) and a black and white heifer turned on…
A nice companion picture to this. In decades to come, when I’m sure my children will accuse me of some parenting failure or another, at least I’ll be able to say, “Well you can’t say I* didn’t expose you to a bit of culture.” *I say ‘I’ but really the thanks goes to my friend…
This is our next door neighbour’s tree. I can’t be sure, but I suspect it is either a Japanese or Canadian maple? What I am sure about is how I adore the colour it turns in autumn and how too soon the leaves fall off. Look, you can already see naked branches at the top….
Right. So. This is a post I’ve been meaning to write for a while, if only to set straight in my own head what we’re going to do next year with Keira: specifically, which primary school will we send her to? And oh, lordy. What a Pandora’s box opens. I first suspected this would be a…
The spectacular lack of intelligence – and examples thereof – of our cat will have to wait for another day. Suffice to say at the moment with the kind of squeezing it gets from my son and daughter, I think we can put the deficiency down to a lack of oxygen to the brain.
If I was to do another “What I’m reading this week” kind of post, this is what I’d put up: Let’s see, what have we there? A children’s classic; an adult’s classic, two Frank (Mr. Postsecret) Warren’s, a recent Australian classic and a book about France. This is what they all look like, though, before…
One of Keira’s recent birthday presents was a fold-out camping chair. In an attempt to guilt (or shame) us into actually taking her camping – which will be difficult as our camping gear in total is that chair alone – she now takes that chair out onto the back deck and just sits there, staring…
I’ve been lucky enough to have had Surprise! positively reviewed over the past several weeks. Let me show you where: * By Susan and Meredith at Reading Upside Down and * Adele at Persnickety Snark and * Nicole at Planning With Kids I can’t tell you how much these please me and how from these reports people have…
“I was saying to a group of women the other day that I feel that my children have simultaneously made and destroyed my life.” When I read these words by Rachel yesterday, I gasped. I gasped because that’s what I’ve been thinking all week; or suspecting, at least, deep down, quietly. I’m sitting here typing…
