We're home from our North Queensland adventure. We've made memories, collected souvenirs, celebrated a birthday and covered a lot of miles (man, have we covered some miles). Not all of the souvenirs that we arrived home with were bought in overpriced gift shops. Some are completely devoid of value priceless. It all started with a tanty at breakfast; there was just no pleasing little ...
Cooking
flying rum monkeys + slapdashery
I really don't have much to show for my week. The days have evaporated between driving to swimming lessons that hadn't yet resumed and leaving the packing for our trip until the very last minute for maximum angst and anxiety. Luckily, I embraced underachievement a few years back. My affection for "that'll do" is perhaps the reason that I love Sarah from Slapdash Mama's blog so much. She's on my ...
angels, sweethearts, jackets + pseudonyms
This is a sponsored post for Target Australia. My fingers could not type fast enough when I learned that Kenny Rodgers was performing at the Gympie Muster last year. Bearhands was keen, so was brother-in-law Craig. Soni and Susan’s responses were just as speedy. We weren't missing the Gambler for quids! The Muster drew closer and over a few cold glasses of something one afternoon, the girls and ...
grouts, Hippocrates, curative chicken soup + the good stuff
It takes a lot to get me to the GP, but when my seal-like cough lured a pod of Orcas so close, that they beached themselves in the Sandy Straits, I found the required motivation. When I fronted to the GP on Saturday morning, he asked me if I had to work on Monday and when I told him I was a Stay at Home Mum, he said “God, you have to work today!” If it weren't for all the germs, I would have ...
school holidays, scientific discoveries and squid
Remember when I wrote a food blog? Me neither. Casa de Cooker is currently experiencing a spate of bed wetting, persistent coughs and two-year-old molars. Yet again, I’m failing at school holidays. The miserable weather isn't helping my cause, the Big Sister wants to craft all the freaking time and the Little Sister is attempting to beat her personal best “mummys per minute”. Me? I've been ...
the blog post that saved me $745.16 this week
Bearhands and I headed to Port Douglas for a wedding this weekend. We’d intended making a long child-free weekend of it, but life happened and we had to cut our trip short. I looked at booking our new flights home and we were looking at $160 each – ouch! Then something magical happened; I came across a blog post by Chantelle of Fat Mum Slim fame. I tried things using her magical trick of ...