Valentines Day means different things to different people. Hell, it means different things to the same people over time. Bearhands and I have had our fair share of Valentines ups and downs. We very ...
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chocolate covered bullets conjure old flames and other things i learned in January 2015
Can you believe we’re already a month into 2015? The Big Sister went back to school on Tuesday and we're finally settling into a little bit of normality. Of course, by normality I mean that special ...
the seven deadly Christmas sins
Hello there! How are the holidays treating you? We celebrated Christmas with our families on the farm, but now the house is empty again and I’ve taken it upon myself to round out the last days of ...
how to make reindeer food
Phew. It's Christmas Eve. We made it*! The presents are wrapped. The pudding is made. The ham is in the fridge. The family are on their way. Yesterday, the girls ticked off a few jobs I'd left ...
the Myer Christmas Parade: now with added body fluids
When the Little Sister started motor boating me as I carried her across the Victoria Bridge, I should have had an inkling that our outing to see the Brisbane City Christmas lights was not going to go ...
Let’s climb a mountain, he said. It’ll be fun, he said.
The guinea fowl parked up outside our bedroom window and squabbled about something that could only be resolved with much noise, posturing and fluffing - much like a feathered version of backstage at ...