Recently my dear mate Pip Lincolne called and asked if I wanted to have a chat for a Kidspot Voices of Voices segment about building an online community and other fine stuff. Naturally I said yes. When the lady who penned the gorgeously positive Craft for the Soul calls, you should always respond in the affirmative. Because that’s…
Archives for September 2015
Everyday rituals | Twilight
Daylight savings starts this weekend and my joy knows no bounds. A later sundown seems the right time to acknowledge the end of the day. Twilight now means the busyness of the day is done (dinner! bath! homework! stuff!) so the winding down of a full day is like the soothing tick-tock of life’s true…
Weekend Rewind | School holiday blues
We are almost half-way through the school hols already and I don’t know how I feel about it. It’s been a bit of a struggle to readjust to being a working mum and billeting out the children to make the holidays work. Holidays are not happy times for working mums. Unless we happen to be on…
24 ways to distract yourself
This year I’ve been very quietly knocking over quite a few bad habits. See, I figured that trying to ‘change myself’ overnight wasn’t working, so I decided to simply focus on one habit at a time and see how I went with that. I’ve been going really well. My latest ‘big habit’ bust has been…
Making pizza with the kids
I’m not a natural ‘cooking with kids’ kind of mum. I see images around the web of gorgeous mums and their gorgeous children doing lovely, patient things with cupcakes and it makes me sigh a little. There are three main reasons for that sigh. 1. Cooking with kids is hideously messy. 2. Cooking with kids is…
Weekend Rewind | Fresh new faces
Yippee! This week we are welcoming Zoe from A Quirky Bird as our new guest host for the #weekendrewind. You might have met Zoe when she guest hosted with us a little while ago. Or you might be lucky enough to know her from her clever blog. I love Zoe’s spin on the world (“quirky” is…
Veggie and lentil cottage pie
Is it vegie or veggie? I’ve gone with the latter out of respect for Veggie Mama, but it feels wrong. I suspect that ‘veggie’ is actually the American spelling. The internet is like American spelling’s Trojan horse, soon we’ll be writing favorite, color and, hold me, organization. But I digress. You’ve come here for the food, so…
Weekend Rewind | Forget about it
I think I may have (particularly) early onset dementia. I can’t remember a darn thing, ever. I lost my nice iPhone7 (are we up to 7? I can never remember), because I absentmindedly put it down somewhere and walked away. I put things down all the time and turn my back and then it’s like they…
Lucy’s Mum’s no-bake chocolate slice
Once upon a time a lovely lass called Lucy had a blog called Diminishing Lucy. It was one of the very first blogs I ever read and I truly connected with Lucy through it. It was a health and fitness blog, but so much more than that. Lucy had a way of inviting us in and…
How to DIY a no-sew LEGO bag
LEGO is one of our favourite screen free activities but, let’s face it, while it might be fun to play with, it’s a b*tch to pack up. Could there really be a way to make LEGO fun for mum too? This LEGO mat solves two ongoing LEGO issues in one hit: somewhere dedicated to play and…