Just a quickie for those of you with babies who are hard to settle. A colleague of mine swears by an app called White Noise. He says he uses it at home and has fed it through his car stereo and his 8 week old falls asleep in minutes. And looking at the website – [...]
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So I am in Brisbane at the moment. My last night in fact and tonight, when I got back to my room and headed straight for the bathroom I sighed with contentment when I noticed the message from the cleaner: Whenever I see the little folded triangles it’s like the cleaner has left a little [...]
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I’m in Brisbane waiting for someone to take my order at a Turkish restaurant. Rapidly losing my sangfroid because there is nothing like eating alone to make you impatient with waiting staff. Southbank itself is a rather lively well landscapes part of town and this Sunday is busy with people strolling along the wide footpaths [...]
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It should be expected right? So why am I always surprised when the sun sets earlier in winter? I think it must be that it seems to happen so quickly. One minute it’s light til 7.30, the next, missing just one train has me walking home in the dark. Still. I no complain. I like [...]
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So I tried the sticky lamb chops from Kathryn’s website. They were very tasty and the honey foamed satisfyingly in the pan. I think for me and Dippity they were a little sweet and I’d probably halve the honey next time. The boys loved them. Oh yeah. And I forgot to add the spring onions.
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I went down to rowing this morning… It was my daughter’s first day and I’m down to help with the breakfast next week so I thought I should find out what I was supposed to do. Dippity emerged dripping and happy. As a first timer she was in a single scull (is that what they [...]
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One good thing about my daughter starting rowing at school, is that I was up early enough this morning to enjoy the sunrise. And if that wasn’t enough… this:
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The other day my son said he needed some new clothes. Now I’m lucky, because he doesn’t care about labels and would rather have lots of cheap clothes than one or two designer pieces. Except when it comes to hiking gear. And he is still enjoying the suit I bought him for his year 12 [...]
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This film was created by Chris Lewis of ABC Open. I watched it on News24 today and was gobsmacked. So. Many. Budgies.
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