This morning I woke up to these three things: 1) The soft crackling of rain as it fell on the grass outside my window. 2) The woop-woop call of the local swamp pheasant from down the road. 3) The unavoidable truth that at some point during the night Santa crawled down my throat to lay…
One needs to traverse a 1.1 kilometre track through paddocks and bush to arrive at my grandparent’s farmhouse; a track I’ve travelled at both a crawl in cars driven uncertainly by those new to the place and desperate to preserve some semblance of vehicular cleanliness to thrilling speeds by the more experienced who know where all…
… are when you can stay up hours past your usual bedtime to get through the last third of I Capture The Castle, only to fall asleep anyway. So the next morning, to escape the family, you take yourself into the bathroom on the (true) pretext of having a shower, but first plop down on…
… are when browsing the small, but respectable, selection of YA titles at the public library, you see The Princess Bride and think to yourself, ‘I’ve always been meaning to read that’. You pull it down, borrow it, and then are rewarded for your choice with passages such as this: “…do you know the most important six…
… trying to sleep with his feet spilling over the end of my double bed at home whenever we visit. It’s not easy being 6ft 5in. Happy wedding anniversary xxx
So. We’re here. As I type, we’re playing Star Wars for the first time to the kids however the experience isn’t as transfixing as we thought – and perhaps secretly hoped – it would be for them. Riley has come back to the table to play Monopoly (we can’t shake that spectre off) and Keira…
Look at it. I feel calmer already. By the time you read this we’ll have (hopefully) checked in our luggage, passed through security screening (which one of us will undoubtedly set off), and be in the process of fending off requests for overpriced snacks or money to play the various arcade games and pinball machines between…
Taken from www.worldaidsday.org.au: The theme for World AIDS Day 2010 is Take Action. No Discrimination. The aim is to encourage all Australians to be aware of the prelavence of HIV/AIDS; to take action to reduce the transmission of HIV by promoting safe sex practices; and to accept individuals living with or affected by HIV/AIDS. Donations…
