‘Second Day’ That blood crusted crown, soft bone plates, pushed by birthing into cone-like shape. The arbitrary beeping and calling throughout the ward; the scuffling of nurses shoes announce their arrival – I often pretended to be asleep when they peeked through the door from the corridor, except when I didn’t, when I waved one…
Pinterest Pinterest is for pretty things and pretty people, and as I’m not really crafty or artsy or fashion-y or aesthetic-y, then what could it possibly have for me? Answer: Pictures of Ryan Gosling and Chris Pine. Many, many pictures. Oh, yes. Pin. Pin. Pin. Pin. Pin. Pin. Pin. Pin. Pretty soon though it becomes…
The other week on the phone my mother was telling me about this chocolate pumpkin recipe that she’d tried. She then offered her baking results to my teenage cousins who had no idea of the vegetable contents and didn’t even realise until she later confessed her secret. This piece of news gave me hope that…
This is a variation of a moussaka roll recipe I found in a Super Food Ideas magazine. That calls for the eggplant to be lightly fried before being wrapped around a ricotta cheese mixture. I quickly realized mine could not be the same as my eggplant was not large enough to wrap around anything, not…
I’ve been feeling like I’ve needed to challenge myself to some sort of physical goal this year. This isn’t only because I’ve put on two-and-some-in-change kilograms since Christmas, although I’d be lying if I didn’t say that is a partial factor. The upshot is I’ll be attempting another half marathon in July without being shepherded…
Adam has fallen in love with this app: Action Movie FX. This is the blurb from the iTunes store, “ACTION MOVIE FX lets you add Hollywood FX to iPhone movies YOU shoot!”. Even better, it is free. But if you don’t like seeing innocent cats being squashed by an enormous wrecking ball, then it might…
Yes, the adventures of baby poo explosions (or ‘Number Threes’ as I’ve heard them more delicately termed) may be over in this house and, true, there’s the odd case gastro to keep us all on our toes – or hovered over the toilet – but by and large I haven’t waded into these murky waters…
via my husband. I tell you, if I had been an audience member at about 1.40min, I bet there would’ve been some pant-wetting going on, with additional crawling-over-people-to-get-away action.
Learning a new game together on the ipad My desk is less than a minute away from here Straight lines and shadows, abound My Thursdays and Fridays are given over to writing: this is the theory. However like many theories of mine it is one that is thwarted by a lot of excuse-making and judgements-of-convenience….
