Back on board

DD and DH are both in one piece (respectively LOL!). DD was sick while I was away. DH phoned me across several continents to ask for advice rather than phoning relatives in the next suburb (that one goes in the “go figure” basket).
I am glad I travelled and had that wonderful time with my family. [...]

Vegies

Yeah, I do carry on a bit about vegies. Something to do with ensuring my daughter has a wide range of foods in her diet and also a nice package of vitamins and minerals and roughage.
The past few nights we’ve had some more success in getting vegies into her. Sure, the vegies have mainly been [...]

Flat out like a lizard drinking

Work is a madhouse thanks to scholarship rounds, results processing, endless meetings that are surely generated in the seventh circle of hell, and the ongoing strain of having to learn how to do new tasks while doing what was already a full-time job.
DD is still unwell. A sort of underlying not-up-to-doing-anything, maybe better expressed as [...]

Pink Princess

Ballet class isn’t until Saturday. Today is Wednesday. I counted three “Are we going to ballet?” questions, and DD was rummaging through her ballet uniform bag before we left the house this morning.
I wonder how long this excitement about dance will last. I hope she loves dance as much or more than I have. But [...]

Beige again

Would you believe, after Jamie Lee’s post, I got an unexpected day off work thanks to a huge office move.
And what am I doing? Oh dear. I wish I could tell you that I am shopping til I drop, picking apples at an organic orchard, getting a manicure or facial, or practising topiary in the [...]

Rain, rain

I would run outside and do a little dance of gratitude in the blessed rain if I weren’t aching so much. Small thing to pay for a change in weather fronts and a much-needed drop in our city’s dams. It also means that I am looking forward to planting new plants in my front garden.
DD [...]

Why yes, I have been busy

Why do you ask?
Perhaps the lack of posts here!
I have more work than usual, learning the ropes of several new and complicated tasks, and then there’s the problem of how to fit 26 hours of stuff into a 24 hour day.
I would love to have more sleep but if I do things [...]

Growing concern

It’s my garden. The grass is slowly growing taller, especially in the patches that are carefully watered with grey water. Some bits are going crispy in the sun, but it seems better now than it was maybe 5 weeks ago.
However, DH has mentioned that the grass needs mowing. Oh no! The guy who mows our [...]

Childcare – child left behind

News item here.
A mother arrived at a Darwin childcare centre, apparently 10 minutes before the centre normally would close, to find that it was locked up and there was no sign of her little eight-month-old son. She thought other relatives had picked him up but couldn’t get in touch with them. At 7 pm she [...]

If your ovaries fall off …

You may have a plush uterus.
Seriously, there is a recall notice for the Plush Uterus, because:
the 2008 Plush Uterus has failed a pull test. The ovaries may detach when pulled, becoming a potential small part choking hazard for young children. No one has been harmed.
This is from the company I Heart Guts, with plush toys, [...]