Sunday Morning Monkey…
He might be three, but he’s still my baby…

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This evening I might just be winning the worst parent award. Getting Jensen’s clothes ready for school tomorrow, I noticed his coat in the kitchen and was rifling through his pockets to empty the sticks and stones he collected after his birthday scoot at the Common, when I noticed how thin his coat felt compared…
I was a little bit awful at sports when I was younger. Not that I wasn’t enthusiastic; I was just too aggressive [tennis], too uncoordinated [rounders] and too unpopular [netball]. Let’s just say that I had issues even catching a basketball. As sport clearly wasn’t a natural talent of mine, my parents never pushed me…
I love interior design. I daydream of the when I can do beautiful things with my home that won’t mean balancing the risk between encountering the kind help of my three little assistants, and the pointless damage to my bank balance should said help occur. Our hallway was in desperate need of a spruce-up after…
Remember how fast your heart would beat, running so fast you nearly tumbled as your upper body overtook your lower? Remember the wind swooshing past your ears and refreshing your clammy, Summer drenched face as the breeze whipped through your tangled, grass-peppered hair? Remember who you were running to, with those pretty, crumpled weeds? Your…
In a few weeks, Jensen will reach the finale of his first year of school. Even though I’m a teacher myself, having my own children reach school age was quite a hullabaloo. You’d think I’d be more prepared -but I wasn’t. Like birthday cards and grocery shopping, I left school uniform shopping until the final couple of…
The idea behind Slow Living, which has its origins in Italy, began to take shape in 1986 as a reaction to fast food. Favouring a different approach to modern life – Slow Living promotes the ethos that instead of rush, rush, rushing, we need to take time to appreciate the life that we live –…