This morning I’m making a chicken curry. When I’m making this particular one, I think the flavour is improved by using roast chicken – but (a) I don’t have the time or patience to pre-roast chickens at the moment, and (b) buying a roast chicken from the supermarket every time I want to make a […]
There’s no two ways about it…I’m a coffee junkie!! A usual day for me is at least 4 cups — 6+ if I’m at work. BUT – I very rarely buy takeaway coffee. Theres two reasons… I make a great cup of coffee – even if I do say so myself – so I’m more […]
Back in the middle of last year, we bought 1.5ac in the foothills outside of town, in a beautiful part of the northern Queensland Tablelands. You can read about that over at the Strigidae Farm blog, so that I’m not wasting time by rewriting about it here. 🙂 So – for the last 8 months […]
If you’re anything like me – as happens when you start out afresh with something or reinvigorate an old ‘love’ for something – whether it be cooking, knitting, gardening, diy or even fixing engines – you do a lot of reading… This week I had a really weird ‘coincidence’ happen to me – which I […]
Many would think I’m very odd – but one of the lovely things about the early part of my day when I’m at the Farm, is doing the dishes. I have an old ‘bench’ of sorts, outside partially in the undercovered area, where I have my plastic dishwashing tub – which I fill with water […]
I’m changing my Life. One small step at a time… I’m moving myself slowly and gently back towards being a Simple Life House Spouse. What does that actually mean? To me and for me – it means that my Life will no longer be about working outside of the home. It means that I will […]
Editors Note: I wrote this on another site on the 19th January last year. Since that time – a lot of things have changed – which I will update you on in the next post or two – but I thought you might like a bit of background as to where my ‘head-space’ was leading […]
This is the story of a girl with the most amazing determination… MaryKatherine was born 6wks premature, in an era when preemies that early often didn’t survive. Even though at that age she didn’t know anything about her very difficult start to Life, a couple of months before her fourth birthday, she was asked what […]
Editors Note: I started writing this a few weeks back, and realized that i just keep adding to it, when i really should be just posting stuff as soon as its written, and then writing a new post as things happen… I’ll try get more organized! lol Not exactly in the vein of “a new […]
. I’ve been ‘home‘ for a week now – and it’s been heaven. We’ve been socially busier than usual, starting with the night when we arrived. We went for a walk, planning to go out along the dock. Sort of a ‘coming home’ ritual… On our way we went past “Sallys”, and Sally, Graham (her […]
. I had always imagined that this was always going to be a really special year. Grandma & Grumpa would be 90, Uncle John 60, me 50, You 30, Rian 25 and Tom 21. Amazing landmarks for our Family, worthy of awesome celebration. But that wasn’t to be…. I had 15 years with you, […]
. Almost every single day, something happens that reminds me that we don’t have long on this planet – and that maybe I’ve got a little less than that. But some days it crashes in on me, and almost suffocates me. I get so overwhelmed with such a deep fear and sadness, and such […]
. 31 days, and I’ll be HOME. It isn’t where we live, but it’s where I feel I belong. It’s the place I want to make our home. When I get off the plane, even though we’ve still got a couple of hours drive ahead of us, I feel like I just want to cry, […]
. It’s been a while, cos I seem to have got caught up, with Life getting in the way of doing some writing. Which is stupid of me, as writing always helps me give clarity to my thoughts! I guess the fact that I haven’t been a very happy grrl, in general, factors into it […]
. I made it! I made it to 50 years old! I never actually believed I would. Not because I ever thought 50 was ‘old‘, but for some reason, since I was probably in my mid-20s, I’d always had somewhat of a premonition that I would die before then. I know it sounds macabre, but […]
. A few days ago, I was talking to someone, and they said to me: “smoking and drinking are two of the only things that I can control.” It tweaked something inside me at the time, but later on, it really got me thinking… For soooo many years I used to say the same thing […]
. It’s been a bit of a long difficult week… It’s 11 days ciggie free, which has been nice. And the breathing has been soooo much better!! Actually, I don’t recall any time in the last week or so, that I’ve really been all that breathless – and that includes getting ready for work. I […]
. 😠 Todays big piss-off… I have a ‘title‘. I’m a Wife. (and I’ve worked damn hard personally AND politically, to earn that title…!) I’m not the-other-half, the girlfriend, the partner, the friend, or any other stupid-ass name. I AM A Wife. Fucking learn! Grrrrr & agggghhhh!!!! 😡
. I’ve been out in the sunshine, digging up weeds from the garden-bed edges for the last two hours – and just thinking about “stuff”. Lots of different stuff – but stuff none the less 🙂 Firstly – on how the ‘flying solo’ went. I enjoyed it. Actually I enjoyed it a LOT! The only […]
. Its day 4, and today has been very productive! I’ve done some gurneying out the back, I’ve cleaned off all the shit from the deck, and put it away, got the outdoor table out of the back shed, cleaned it up and set it up, even got out the old fountain, cleaned it off, […]
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