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Turn that Xmas upside down

I’m still missing cold Christmases. It doesn’t feel very festive here. I think I might need to buy some decorations and a CD of carols or something… I did get some home fragrance oil from Crabtree & Evelyn – NOEL – it is piney and spicy and lovely, and helps a little. Then I think, all that stuff is so expensive. I should buy it January, when it’s all on sale, for next year instead… and ride out this year undecorative, just me & the oil burner.

Loving + loathing for October

IN Part time. My job contract got extended again for another 3 months and they’re letting me go part-time. I’m ridiculously excited about having dedicated days for writing over the next 3 months. It feels very luxurious, although I’m sure the reality won’t be. One day in and I’ll be like, wait this is just read more »

Sneezy spring & the downunder mark up

Sneeze sneeze sneeze. Spring has arrived. Today forecasts a high of 27 degrees C — balmy! — but, sadly, windy. The plane trees are busily offloading their buckets of pollen. The pollen has started filling the gutters. And my eyeballs and sinuses. When we first arrived a year ago, mid-October, it was super windy too. read more »

Green thumbs, or not

As the weather warms & we get longer days, I have ventured back into my ‘garden’. I say so with quotes, as my method involves chucking stuff in the ground & seeing what lives. I do try to plant things by height, so the bigger things are at the back. But, erm, that’s the extent read more »

Loving & loathing for, um, the right now

It should be for August but it’s almost September. Plus did I do July? I might’ve missed July too. Oops. Well, we all know how life can get in the way of blogging sometimes. On to the gratitude… IN Minor (in comparison to 2011) travellations: a trip to Wellington and a weekend away in Lorne. read more »

A year ago I was fishing in Finland

Can’t believe it’s been over a year since we left London and started travelling, heading for Melbourne. God and I didn’t even finish my updates on where we travelled to! I only got up to Austria… didn’t write anything for Italy, Greece, Turkey, or the States! I promise, over the next week or so I’m read more »

Loving + loathing for June

This month I am LOVING

Fun & games with AustraliaPost

Someone at AustraliaPost missed the point of selling stamps online!