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Jammies!Ugg boots!Corduroy snuggy thingyame that has fake-fur lining and hood... It's 3 degrees this morning and I'm sitting in the sun, sipping tea and writing to YOU! It's been a while, yeah?I had a session with a life coach last week and she asked me to journal about my definition of success. Now, I've thought about …
Stand aside! There's writin' to be rescued! Okay. This was supposed to be the Day Three post of my self-imposed, pre-Christmas blogging challenge. I wrote most of it—then lost my mojo and my faith, got distracted by Christmas preparations, and, erm, abandoned the writing. But it's never too late to rescue our darlings, is it? …
We have a new bakery in our little town, dear reader. It's actually the old bakery rejigged. They have revamped and stoked-up the ancient wood-fired oven and they're making posh bread and fancy biscuits. And they have a hole in the wall where they serve totally ACE coffee. And it's all VERY exciting. Yesterday when …
Continue reading "Australian House and Garden. Keeping it Real."
Rambling writer alert! Read at your own peril... I have very little to offer you on this Thursday afternoon, dear reader, and yet I still feel compelled to pick up a pen and scratch a few lines. Perhaps I should write in my journal and keep my muddled thoughts private. But. I am sitting here …
The owl and the pussycat went to sea. In a letterbox built for three...
My Lockdown Letterbox. Or, what to do when there's nothin' to do. Pimp your letterbox!
Slow living, how it worked for me. Planning my days, running my biz, writing books.
So, this has been happening... And this... This too... A Samhain altar from our ancestors... (It's Samhain tomorrow, April 30, Southern Hemisphere.) And this (see below). I'm speaking 'stone language' with a mystery walker! Every time I go down this little trail (it's very secluded) I leave another discreet little 'sticks and stones' arrangement. Then, …
Greetings, dear reader! Thanks for dropping by! I'll get straight to it, shall I? This is a looong post. I hope you have a teapot handy... 1 Why another photoshoot? Since our tree change in 2018, I've changed a lot. I've become more 'myself' if that makes sense and I wanted girl and duck to …
Continue reading "Our Latest Website Photoshoot: Behind the Scenes"
So this happened. Last week, I made scones for the local library. We were having a Devonshire Tea stall at the local agricultural show. But I couldn't make it to the show. So I dropped the scones over to my neighbour and asked her to drop them off for me. She said, 'But they have …