Okay I’m not really whinging. I like Melbourne. I could live here. No. Really. (Anyone want to offer me a job?) But the thing with the tram lines does my head in. I feel like a bird in an aviary. Or Truman in The Truman Show. Does anyone else feel like that? Oh. Just me? [...]
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Well as if I would know, I’m only his mother! So has he been kissed? Watch the video to find out.
You can’t wear your vintage dress just anywhere in Perth you know. It would feel decidedly out of place (for me) in most places bar a fancy dress party and of course, Fremantle. Fremantle with its bohemian culture is a place where anything goes so I went. I only wish I had the white gloves [...]
My baby is thirteen and she is gorgeous. Today we went on the tunnel tour under Fremantle Prison, the largest convict built establishment in Australia. I think my girl was impressed that the jail was still in use when “I was alive”. In fact they closed the prison in 1991 and then had to wait [...]
I have this big wall calendar on my pin-up board and hopefully my colleagues noted my reminder! The date jumps out at me from everywhere. My colleagues have bought me a present but it doesn’t arrive for a few days… intrigued? I am. So one of them bought me some earrings – just to tide [...]
We were down in Dunsborough for mum’s 70th birthday celebration. She had invited her family to Caves House for a breakfast. The photos in the room were of Caves House in the year of her birth – 1939. This is the youngest member of the family being held by the oldest, my great aunt. I [...]
This is my mum and my daughter in 2005. We were in Italy, in Venice in fact. I thought I wouldn’t like Venice. I thought it would be too much of a cliche, too geared for tourism. It was. I didn’t care. I loved it. The other week I caught up with my oldest cousin. [...]
My baby is 14 today. And, poor thing, is lying in his unmade bed today. You see, Groover and I had birthdays in the last couple of months and the kids did not think it necessary to make a fuss. No cups of tea, no homemade cards, no thought on the morning of our birthdays. [...]
I went to a first birthday party on Sunday. It was a bit weird. I didn’t go with my family, just me, and it did feel odd going to a baby’s party without a… well… baby. I was out of that space. It made me wonder about how the people I invited to my first [...]
