Always Look on the Bright Side of Cheesiness
There’s something so wonderfully refreshing and inspiring about cheesy quotes. You know the ones, “When life hands you lemons, make lemonade,” “If you love something set it free,” and “the expert in something was once the beginner.” There’s also something that’s annoyingly patronising about them, when you’re just not feeling it. image credit Today, I’m being annoyingly patronising. The last week, I’ve had some rather...
Read MoreThe Luckiest Woman
Ever since I was little, I can remember having really vivid dreams. Well not that I thought they were any more vivid than anyone else’s, but my mum always told me they were. Maybe she just had really boring ones….? Anyway, whatever the story, when I dream I dream in detail. One might say surround sound. I can still remember with acute clarity the dream I had as a preadolescent involving a backward high jump, a Peter Pan watch , and a puddle in a pile of gravel. Sometimes my dreams...
Read MoreA Tale of Five Cars
Once upon a time there was a little red rocket; that wasn’t her real name, but for our purposes, that is what we she call her. She was a 1991 ford laser, with the number plate 435 216, and she was my first car. The red rocket (or the red bullet as she was occasionally known) was bequeathed to me by my father after he obtained her from my aunts sister. She was a good little car; cheap and reliable. Sure she had no power steering, and her aircon eventually went the way of all things, but...
Read MoreKnown
It’s been a bit of a crazy morning. We had run out of bread so at 7:30 this morning I had to run down to the corner to pay $5 for a loaf of it, so the kids could have lunch today. This was after we had discovered that one of our baby bunnies had burrowed out of its hutch, and decided the grass was greener on the other side of the fence. The side where the dog lives. Thankfully, we got to her in time, and she had hidden herself from Angel’s almighty jaws, and a bunny massacre was...
Read MoreProud Mummy Moment
You know that moment, when you first see your first baby? Whether it’s on an ultrasound image, or in those moments after birth and they are a squirming, beautiful mess, and you think the thoughts, ‘no child in this world, will ever be as beautiful as this one.’ You worry about your second child. You seriously doubt that you could love them as much as the first, and there is no way on God’s green earth they could be as clever, as advanced, as attractive, and as...
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