Yesterday my stove started flaming. Not in the helpful, cooking way. In the on-fire-run-outside-and-turn-the-gas-off kind of way. The plumber has been today and confirmed it's probably going ...
farm life
Stories about life on our turf farm in Glass House Mountains on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
three spotty dresses, two Christmas recipes and an alligator in a pear tree
OK, there wasn't a pear tree, but the rest TOTALLY happened! Yesterday was a hot one - the mercury peaked at 37°C just as I arrived at Australia Zoo with the girls to meet Santa. Why oh why did I ...
lighting a candle
Grief is a process. You can't hurry it up. Initially, I tried reading my way through it. Devouring books about grief and waiting for a eureka moment, when I could make my peace with what had ...
Farewelling Fr Stan
The first thing I noticed about Fr Stan was his feet. Priests have feet - who knew? We'd arrived at the Caloundra Parish Office after hours, for the first of a few compulsory ...
that doggie in the window
As I write this post, the Little Sister is raiding the pantry sans pants, the fan is whirring gently and I can hear our dogs playing outside. Nothing out of the ordinary about that. Except that ...
R U OK? Day
Grief is a very difficult thing to understand. For those on the outside, it can be difficult to know what to do, what to say, how to act. I was lucky to be surrounded by so many caring people when ...