Freaking out – how to deal with it …
My daughter got a call from her son’s teacher. Nothing unusual about that because she’d had quite a few since her first-born Kieran started school this year. However, she was expecting it a few days earlier after being baled up by the principal in the school pick up area. A few days earlier She could […]
The Chevrolet gets a scratch
The day my father discovered a parking spot that had always been ‘reserved for him’ was actually reserved for a tourist bus was a memorable day indeed. My father was a quiet man most of the time. He rarely spoke about anything. But he was also very bad tempered too which was witnessed by a […]
It happened one Good Friday when the kiddies were in their fancy dress outfits …
Hannah was foraging as usual. She had always been adventurous when it came to her taste buds. Bland baby foods didn’t interest her. She liked variety in her diet and was prepared to give anything a go. At the beach, she ate the sand. If we sat under a pine tree, she ate the pine […]
Why a certain bad Friday turned into Good Friday
Good Friday was something that always confused me as a child. Why wasn’t Good Friday known as Bad Friday? Good Friday commemorates the date when Jesus Christ was crucified on 3 April AD. Isn’t that a bad thing? My catholic mother said it was good because Jesus died to save us from our sins. I’m […]
A makeover for a 1950s Chevrolet
The big Chevrolet. How could I forget it? Dad painted it canary yellow with a big paint brush. We were told the paint had fallen off the back of his Hammond’s truck when we were kids, a time when everything seemed so much bigger. My father worked at Hammond’s Transport and used to drive a […]
How to make great playdough
I’ve got four little grandchildren (grandies) but as a grandparent I’m not really your Ms Average. I’ve got a toddler car seat but no car. I’ve got eyes that are not much more than just a facial feature these days. I’ve got legs that are shaky with anxiety. If you’ve had falls resulting in a […]
Toilet training then and now
My interest in toilet training wee ones has resurged since the arrival of four little grandies with a couple of two-year-olds in the mix. It’s mostly called potty training these days but as I’m not a potty, chippy, bikky, tummy, botty kind of person, I’ll stick with toilet training. Toilet training started earlier back …. […]
I had the jab today
Unfortunately, not the one that’s on everyone’s lips and in the upper arm of a few others. I had the jab for osteoporosis, aka The Big O. I say unfortunately because I never thought I’d eventually have osteoporosis when I was diagnosed with osteopenia. That’s a fancy name for low bone density. But what’s not […]
Was Mum trying to punish me?
I’m sure my life would have been different if I hadn’t won that damn scholarship. To start with I would have gone off to the local public high school for Grade 7 along with my peers from primary school. The scholarship certainly didn’t give me a sex education or the desire to be chaste. What […]
I’ll be sticking my arm out for the jab when it’s my turn
Everyone’s carrying on about the Covid-19 vaccine roll out being delayed. Only because the Prime Minister, Scott Morrison promised that four million Australians would be vaccinated by the end of this month (March 2021). And by the end of October this year everyone who wants to have the vaccination will have had the jab. If […]