Do drop in! Or not …

What happened to the casual drop in at home? People would be driving past on their way home from something, see the turn off to Suburb X and say “Let’s see if Meowmie is home!” Next thing, there’d be a familiar car in the driveway, and a chance to have coffee with old friends.
Nowadays [...]

The Three-Second Rule

As a kid, I grew up eating stuff that had the three-second rule applied to it - usually toast. You know the rule: if food falls on the floor, it’s OK to eat it if it’s been only been on the floor for 3 seconds or less. I must have scraped the equivalent of [...]

I’m not the Queen of Clean

The refrigerator is giving me the hairy eyeball. Not as bad as the old fridge, which would burp foul stenches and frost over the lettuce regularly, letting me know that I needed to get out the chisel and hot water to attack the freezer. This lovely new fridge (bought in 2006) is still sparkly [...]

Mmm! Mmm! (My cooking)

Ah, such sweet words! I made pumpkin soup on Tuesday evening and Mimi’s immediate reaction was “Mmmm! Mmmm!” as she lapped it up. I haven’t seen that enthusiasm for anything vegetable-based for ages.
I gave her tuna mornay on top of mashed vegetables on Weds. evening. Same response. Tuna mornay is wonderful and she would have [...]

The Vegie Prayer

Lord, grant me the patience to not count the number of spoonfuls of vegies on the floor, but to rejoice instead in the amount that actually stayed in my daughter’s mouth.
Grant me the self-control to bite my tongue instead of lashing out with it in hurtful words when my cooking skills are criticised by a [...]

All aboard the good ship “Defiant”

Mimi has her own sweet way to let me know that I am not doing what she wants. If I take away something or try to move her somewhere she doesn’t want to go to, she turns to me with a determined look on her face and says the immortal words:
“No! Go away! Rawwrrrrrrrrr!”
Funnily enough, [...]

Ow! Ow!

It’s now 6 weeks since I saw the doctor about the pains in my feet and nearly 4 months since the pains started. I haven’t been limping too badly for the past 5 days but today, back to the pains again. I can’t take anymore painkillers without triggering the usual kidney pain.
So what do I [...]