Well it has been a long time between entries - sorry about that - but we had a few unexpected tests with Reg so we wanted to make sure everything was ok before we went ahead with news.After out second scan at 12 weeks the doctors found something that they wanted to do some extra tests on. This meant … [Read more...]
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Wrongs righted & radical acceptance
October 22, 2024 by 25 Comments
Daisy graduated high school. In some weird twist of events where I was only just (not just) writing on here about how I was pregnant with her, well she went and grew up and finished high school and she's glorious. Look. Someone explain it all to me because I just can't understand how … [Read more...]
Friend’s Christmas Dinner 2023
December 18, 2023 by 9 Comments
This year it was our turn to host our Annual Friend's dinner and given that we are in the fancy new house I thought that I better go extra fancy and make it a black tie event. Because...why not! Everyone loves a chance to get their fancy suits and frocks out and I had just the backdrop. This year … [Read more...]
Life, lately
July 6, 2023 by 6 Comments
It's the winter school holidays, already, so soon? Apparently yes. Which means that it's been almost one year since we moved house waiting for the renovation to begin. I cannot believe how fast that has gone and that there are piles of stuff in the garage that I "meant" to get sorted after I just a … [Read more...]
Maggie is now 8!
June 26, 2023 by 11 Comments
Somehow our baby turned 8 last month. HOW I ASK YOU. Remember when she was one? And then two? And then three? And then four? And then five? And then six? And then seven? And now eight. I know it's so cliche to say how fast it all goes, but my … [Read more...]
Blog post Entry 3,561
May 16, 2023 by 36 Comments
On Easter Sunday morning I was a complete disaster. The first term always gets me good, there’s new routines and timetables, sport begins, there’s Easter to plan for and thankfully in the lead up to the break, we had been busy in the shop. We had had a big first term with Daisy growing up, fast. … [Read more...]
Visiting the Southern Highlands? Read this!
March 8, 2023 by 1 Comment
The last time I updated this post was in 2017 so I thought it was well and truly in need of an update as I am often asked about where to go and stay and what to do in the Highlands. Lots of these posts are a number of years old and won’t have the most up to date places and there are new places … [Read more...]
First Annual Friend’s Trip to…Jugiong
January 6, 2023 by 2 Comments
I have been meaning to do this post since AUGUST last year and with some time in early January I wanted to finally get the time to share one of the best weekends I have ever had...our first annual friend's tip that we did in August 2022. The weekend was a celebration for Lucy's 40th and James' 50th … [Read more...]
Tender hearts, new year, slow farm days
January 5, 2023 by 14 Comments
We are back from our annual post Christmas visit to the farm - honestly my favourite week in the whole year. I said to Sue when we arrived on Wednesday afternoon absolutely exhausted from Christmas with the family - late nights and mess and endless cooking, that the farm is the place to me that … [Read more...]
Southern Highlands Wineries: 6 vineyards in 6 months
November 7, 2022 by Leave a Comment
SPONSORED POST FOR SHFWA We’ve been living in the Southern Highlands now for 12 years and while we are surrounded by so many fabulous vineyards and wineries, and we enjoy the delicious wines that come from them every week, there are still so many wineries we have yet to visit all these years … [Read more...]
Life at 45 and 3(ish) weeks
September 8, 2022 by 8 Comments
3 weeks ago I turned 45. How odd, considering I feel much younger. Perhaps that will always be the way now. I'll feel the same inside even though my face and body will tell me differently. The same way the years seem to go so much faster now. The way when I look at my parents now, and I see … [Read more...]
My blog is sweet 16 today!
July 29, 2022 by 35 Comments
Today, my blog turns 16. SIXTEEN. Have I ever done anything continually for as long, besides eat custard tarts? It's hard to say. But here we are, 16 years, 3,550 posts and 73,824 comments later. Still. Here. Thanks for still being here. Truly. Amazing really isn't it? I know that I … [Read more...]
Renovators, mount up!
July 8, 2022 by 82 Comments
It was a clear black night. A clear white moon...oh hang on. So, I have an update for you guys. Nothing too dramatic, but exciting! Slash exhausting. But mostly exciting! We are renovating our home! It’s been years in the planning and will take 9 months or so (probs a year right I am discovering … [Read more...]
Full & Thorough Reporting
June 24, 2022 by 7 Comments
We’ve finally had some sunny weather. The kind of days that make you feel grateful just to be alive and in them. Glorious sunrises, late and freezing, with frosts and rising mists on the washing and trees as the sun hits. Sunsets that stretch from 3pm until dusk at 5, clouds rushing through the … [Read more...]
Lucy turned 40!
June 9, 2022 by 2 Comments
It's been a big month of birthdays in our family...we have had Dots, then Mum then Rob and Maggie and ending of course with the big 4 0 for Lucy last week! This was such a special occasion for us...the baby of our (grown up family). We celebrated her birthday on Thursday with lunch with Mum and … [Read more...]
Maggie is now 7!
June 7, 2022 by 4 Comments
First she was one: Then two. Then three. Then four. Then five. Then six. And now, well she's seven. SEVEN! Sweet Maggie turned 7 last month and we celebrated our special girl on the day with a simple family gathering and then a few weeks later we had … [Read more...]
Our family trip to Uluru-Kata Tjuta
May 25, 2022 by 10 Comments
I didn’t even let myself think about planning for this trip until the day that we left for the airport hotel. I was CERTAIN that one of the family would get covid and that all the plans would go into a spin and if I didn’t think it would go ahead, that it actually might. Which may have been the … [Read more...]
Long Lunch 2022
April 28, 2022 by 4 Comments
This is the first of these exclusive long lunches I have seen my brother, sister and cousins be a part of each year. I think they started them 4 or 5 years ago now, each year they choose an amazing restaurant, go our for a long lunch and celebrate life just because. It's like everyone's birthday all … [Read more...]
Full & Thorough Reporting: March
March 31, 2022 by 8 Comments
When you look back on the month that was March 2022 you can't help but be relieved that it's over. But looking out my window from my office this afternoon at pouring down rain and an icy wind that makes it feel like 10 degrees it seems about right that it's seeing the month out, just as it began. … [Read more...]
Iso 2.0
March 25, 2022 by 6 Comments
Clocking out of day 17 of iso for us this year...tomorrow we will be free again, until the next time when we are not. Poor Daisy went down this time (Harper, Maggie and I still to fall at some stage) and she missed out on a big trip to Sydney she was really looking forward to. Rob thankfully was … [Read more...]
