Hippie Child has started Year 12. I think I’m going to take up serious drinking. In fact, I don’t know why Liquorland doesn’t have a discount card for HSC parents, it would be a marketing goldmine. I’ve given her the pep talk. We started off strong, she even did some study on day one. Now if we can just get through the next 364 days we’ll be … [Read more...]
Then The Dance Was Over
We spent some twenty-six years with our lives entwined. We were friends, a couple, formally husband and wife, then (god help us) parents. Twenty to Forty-Six it's a big chunk of time spent in each others company. We were always a mismatched pair, big picture girl, detail orientated bloke. I liked things to happen, you hated change. I live in … [Read more...]
Living With Teens – The Rules
Once the teenager obtains her licence you will be required to submit booking requests to drive your OWN CAR. Having a licence for six days makes her an expert and enables her to give YOU DRIVING ADVICE. Dragging teenagers out of the bedrooms they have inhabited for days on end into the sunlight of an outdoor experience is a CRIMMINAL … [Read more...]
Favourite Spaces
Now the weather is getting warmer we can once again get out on our back deck. It has a view of the only remaining piece of undeveloped land in our area and we've got our fingers crossed it doesn't get developed for a few more years. It's our version of living on acreage, except it's the look but don't touch kind. We can't actually have … [Read more...]
Holiday Notes
Oops I forgot I had a blog! Not really just took a day off which stretched into ... well a month. Blogging can be very all-consuming and you forget what life was like before you had the self-imposed daily deadline of writing for a blog. Taking a break was an interesting experiment. I realised that without the daily writing practice I don't write … [Read more...]
Over Parenting and Other Acts of Insanity
Well I'm officially insane. I know you've suspected for a while now. Like when I quit a perfectly good job to go to, well nothing. Or when the blog posts became infrequent, incoherent ramblings. You used to quietly think to yourself she may be losing her mind. However, I'm not as smart as you so it took me a little longer to cotton … [Read more...]
Weekly Photo Challenge – My Neighbourhood
This week the WordPress photo challenge was a phoneography one. We had to take our phones and explore our neighbourhood. Tough one for me. This means I have to take the photos and not my talented brother with his high-quality camera. When I first moved to Port Macquarie I searched for a house that I would be happy to live in until, well probably … [Read more...]
Five Moment Memoir
How's this for an idea? If you struggle with finding the time to journal (or write a lengthy word count blog) how about having a crack at a five-moment memoir. Freelance writer Sarah Beauchamp wrote about her concept of journalling in Oprah Magazine. Basically she forced herself to write down five things that happened each day, both the … [Read more...]
Love and Other Injuries
Whenever someone refers to me as "Mrs W" it always means trouble. Having never adopted my married name when people start the conversation with "Are You Mrs W" it means either a telemarketer trying to sell me something or my husband has another crisis. The last time I was addressed in such a way it was a cardiologist informing me my husband had had … [Read more...]
So That Was Christmas
Are we all done with Christmas now? Hopefully you folks at the wrong end of the world have finished your Christmas day festivities as well, so we will all have survived the family get together and gluttonous overload. We celebrated at our house again this year. It's a strategic thing. If we are having everyone over for lunch it means … [Read more...]
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