Best Vegies For The Beginner Gardener?
You gals on the net have been rubbing off on me for years - so this spring (remember, we’re south of the equator down here) I’ve decided it’s high time I plant a garden of some sort.
A couple of months ago a storm blew over the only tree in our backyard - it was a […]
Oh Yeah…It Could Be Chicken Pox
Miss Moo’s best friend has the chicken pox.
The two girls are like peas in a pod.
They share EVERYTHING. Lunches, frequent hugs - the lot.
If Moo hasn’t got The Pox by the end of the week it will be a miracle, sigh. None of the kids have had it yet. I still hadn’t caught it by […]
The Mystery Illness That Was…Or Wasn’t
I think we’ve been played. Played like a violin, people.
Today I went shopping with Talented Hubby. Okay, not so much with him - he was off looking at surround sound speaker stands, and I was rather dishearteningly shopping for clothes - but we were at least under the same postcard. Then my phone rings. I didn’t […]
Okay, So It’s 1910 And I’m In Canada…
The recent break from a hectic blogging schedule - which we can all agree, I was never very good at keeping anyway - has done me some good. I even remarked to Talented Hubby last night that I had not turned on the computer since the previous morning, a break of something like 36 hours. […]
Mrs M? Where’s My Dinosaur-Sized Fake Gold Nugget?
After spending ELEVEN LOUD HOURS in the company of SIXTY 4th graders (and a handful of teachers and parent helpers) yesterday, today I’m feeling tightly wound and, I don’t know, cluttered-up inside. Does that make sense? Perhaps when you hear about my day yesterday, it might!
My eldest, J, has been participating in a national ’story […]
Just an Aussie mother to three, wife to one, special needs advocate, sometimes crafter, always procrastinator and awesome baker. Well maybe not bread. Bread alludes me.

