Deadline extended – win a BB print!
DEADLINE EXTENDED! Get your entry in by 4pm today (GG time – see clock at right). … I am cold and I am brain-dead after attempting to teach a class of 4-12 year olds how to use Photo Elements at…
Bush bouquet… enough to melt yer heart!
Mr Incredible picked somethin’ a little special for me this morning. A ‘bush bouquet’, if you will. It was the result of three events colliding in my world: 1. It was freaking cold overnight (down to minus 5 degrees C…
Go Roo!
Violet has a little (big) cousin called Roo. They are great mates. Roo had an accident recently, and burned herself pretty badly. It gave us all a terrible fright and we have been sending all kinds of positive vibes her…
Up the Duff… do yourself a favour!
OK. Sorry. No, really. I just don’t think sometimes… I quite forget that we speak a whole different lingo down here than that enunciated throughout the rest of the world’s allegedly English-speaking civilisation… And I used the words “Up the…
Birthday blooms…
Some blooms for Jean-Jeanie today… Whose birthday we finally celebrated this weekend… With a couple of bunches of tulips nabbed from Woolies,and a loud gathering of family and pasta and wine and carrot cake… It was a rich and delicious…
The Don
A Hollywood movie should be made about blokes like ‘the Don’. Real, funny, affectionate, larger-than-life, fun-to-be-around, family blokes. I knew Don from when I was a whippersnapper. He looked tall to me back then… tall and lanky and full of…
Her eyes…
I often imagine she has old eyes… whatever that means… Perhaps it means that they seem knowing and watchful and hard to fool? Because sometimes they look clean through you, and sometimes they are afire with brimstone and wrath, other…
Delight in the details: the anti-anti-aging post
I have to admit to being a little hot under the collar lately… about all this anti-aging attitude on TV. One Aussie show in particular – Ten Years Younger in Ten Days – has really bothered me. It promotes botox…
The Cook and the Chef…
My kids love cooking. Love getting up their elbows in the kitchen. Love making messes. And while I do encourage their enthusiasm for ‘making, baking, cooking all the while’ it has recently become clear that perhaps I haven’t been truly…
Violet and her (furry) boys
This slideshow shows a series of shots taken this week when Violet tried to take our (non) adventurous Great Dane puppy Axel to meet Rob Roy, the (non) enormous equine terrorising our houseyard boundaries! … Firstly, Axel sat in our…