If you are a close relative or friend of my family, you would know that we don’t have birthdays, we have birthday weeks. My Mum, aka Gran has been celebrating for a few days now, even though her actual birthday was today. We had dinner and cake last night (above), then lunch and cake today….
Continue reading →Okay people. Let’s lighten things up a little for the week! After my 5k efforts on Sunday, I was pretty knackered in the evening, but I knew that if I wanted the first week back at school to run smoothly, some lunch prep would be in order. Thankfully Quinn and Julius were super keen to…
Continue reading →My friend Beth and I completed the Jetty 2 Jetty 5k today. Fresh-faced pre-race: And a sweaty mess post-race. Well I am at least. Beth barely broke a sweat 😆 Today marks the end of a crappy fortnight that can, quite frankly, go and have adult relations with itself. It’s been rough. And sad. And…
Continue reading →Kate and I have known each other since we were 3 years old. We went to kindy together, our mums are good friends, and so the friendship began. We have been at each other’s milestone birthdays for decades. I was at the birth of her first son, my Godson. She dropped everything when Frith died…
Continue reading →I know I’ve been talking a lot about grief and sadness and fighting back in these early posts of my new blog. I really hadn’t intended for this to be the mood, but that’s the thing about writing a blog about day to day life – you never know what the content is going to…
Continue reading →We headed out from Redcliffe Jetty on Thursday last week for a spot of whale watching. Even though Darby complained he was hungry after being on the boat for five minutes (and was apparently hungry for the next 5 hours), and I forgot the nappy bag for Julius so had no pull ups or spare…
Continue reading →Sometimes you find yourself in a place you never saw coming. It feels uncomfortable, and you don’t feel like you belong. This wasn’t meant to happen to you. You don’t know how you got here and you don’t want to hang around. But then you sit in the stillness and let the feelings wash over…
Continue reading →There are wounds we carry around with us that we think have fully healed, but a bump or graze out of left field can open them up again when we least expect it. We sit there, a little dazed and confused, looking at the gaping wound, picking at it, almost curiously. Why are you still…
Continue reading →Celebrating this woman. We have been up at Mount Glorious this weekend, eating amazing food, drinking yummy wine, and laughing a LOT, celebrating Sian’s birthday. Did I mention we are all child-free? 😀 Happy birthday to you my friend. We have known each other over a quarter of a century (😳😍) and there are still…
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