(Brown) eyes have it!
I have brown eyes… very dark brown. Brown skin, brown hair, brown eyes. Unrelenting brown-ness. That’s me. … And in the way of women the world over, I have always wished for something OTHER than what I have. I wished…
Wedding weekend: all in the details
I went to a wedding this week. It was wonderful… filled with love and laughter and tears of joy and relief. Mostly my tears, I might add. And my relief. As the speeches began marking the end of my designated…
The Real Bush Christening
I have realised that many of those reading this blog (from OS) will have no idea of the references made to a ‘Bush Christening’… the phrase stems from a famous Australian verse, by the poet AB (Banjo) Paterson who recorded…
A bush christening
The Little Woman got baptised yesterday – a bush christening. If you know the Banjo Paterson poem of this title, you will understand the potential for romantic settings and possible disaster. My cousin had decided to have her two little…
A Better Woman…
You know how you have a day when you think you’re doing OK? Then you are reminded just how incredibly normal and unremarkable you really are… and it’s alright. Well today is one of those days. I often read the…