Like most Saturday's {well I try at least} I am playing along with Maxabella and showing what I am grateful for. This week it's pretty simple.: Neighbours that grow tonnes of cherry tomatoes and drop them over in wee baskets: Children that sit and eat said tomatoes like they are lollies … [Read more...]

We have another round of visitors this weekend coming down from Sydney so I have been out and about this morning picking up bits and pieces. On the list? Flowers of course! Take a look at these colourful beauties I picked up from one of my favourite shops in Bowral - Wild Food. And the best bit? … [Read more...]

I still remember this post from all those years ago now. That little lady. Those little ladybird jammies. And now Harper wears them! How does it all go by so quickly?Yesterday afternoon as I cooked dinner I watched another little lady pick up her colouring in book and pencils to follow the sunshine … [Read more...]

There have been several times this week when I have been struck down by a wave of wooze {and before you ask, no I am not pregnant. You have to have sex to get pregnant...der!}. You know the kind that makes you feel sick, instantly, and takes a little while to get rid of? No? Here, let me … [Read more...]

: The first collection of wood: The first use of my new wood basket: The first setting of the fire: The first lighting of the fire: The first crackles and smells and smoke: The first sitting of the fire on the couch with wine in hand: The first of many {no doubt} for the year and the season: I'm … [Read more...]

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Nothing makes me happier than fresh flowers in vases in my home. For something so simple and {sometimes} cheap it brings you happiness for a week. A smile will appear each and every time I pass them by. That is, until they shrivel up and die.I picked these colourful pretties up for under $15 on the … [Read more...]

Friday afternoon before I picked up Daisy from School I ducked into my favourite local antique/come what may shop to see if they had my elusive table for behind my sofa that I am currently obsessed with. Seriously I am focused on this imaginary table waaaay too much. It's thin. It's for behind my … [Read more...]

So. How did it go? The catch up? Well, the pictures pretty much speak for themselves.There was champagne. 3 sweet, delicious, fabulous bottles of the stuff.There was the most picture perfect afternoon with some scones and then a cheeky trip up to the pub for a drink.There was some pork belly which … [Read more...]

When I saw that the Pub was hosting the Annual Yabbie day today, I knew that was one for the calendar. Excuse to go to the pub? Tick. Entertainment for the kids? Tick. Chance to meet some more locals and be part of the village? Tick.And it did not disappoint. I even had some English visitors who has … [Read more...]

Not a day goes by when I don't walk past one part of our house {inside or out} and think to myself "oh my GOD how beautiful is that?" Whether it's some flowers sitting just so, the view out the window, a part of the garden or the sun shining into a room in a certain way it always seems to take my … [Read more...]

I am almost certain that if I was having a conversation with some of my 'real life' friends & family and told them that this weekend I am having 2 friends I have met over the Internet, through my blog, come to stay in my house for a night they would think I had gone mad. That I was crazy. That it … [Read more...]

If you ever need some nutty goodness to have in your cupboard, or say if you are hosting some drinks and need a little something quick and easy and a little retro to put together these do just the trick.: Take some old school curry powder: Take some oil: Take some macadamia nutsToss the nuts in the … [Read more...]

I swear a few weeks ago now Daisy woke up and asked to do some drawing right away. And all of a sudden, she could draw. Like *that*. It was the strangest thing, like something clicked in the night and it worked. Kind of like the fact that she has worked out the not weeing thing at night. It just … [Read more...]

Just as it makes no logical sense that a mother could look at her newborn baby and want to scream and pull her hair out in frustration and resentment and anger, it makes no sense that on this amazingly beautiful day I could be anything other than filled with happiness. Right? Yeah, right.And it is … [Read more...]

I am completely unimpressed that it's Monday morning so much so that I am NOT even going to mention it this morning. Not once. Stupid Monday.We had a busy Saturday leaving home at 7.30am and heading up to Sydney for the day to go to a special family event - a naming day for all of Rob's brother's … [Read more...]

Sunday 20th February 20118.05pm @ home: A sunset that sent us outdoors in all it's glory. Pink. Purple. Blue. We have been getting some good sky round these parts the last few days. … [Read more...]

So when I have nothing very interesting to say about the now, I may just have something of interest from the then? Maybe? Maybe not.I have always enjoyed a little blast from the past on this little blog, I love that you can remember something - anything - say a Tia Maria TV ad from the 1980's and … [Read more...]

: I have lost my blogging mojo this week. Somewhere between Sunday and now, it's gone. I've checked behind the couch, under the bed - nowhere! Bound to happen every now and then and will be back just as quickly as it left. Until then, posts such as this (or heaven forbid none!) will have to do.: I … [Read more...]