Tag Archives: Kids

Eleven kids!


Recently, well last year sometime actually, I happened to make contact with an old friend from YEARS ago….when I was a different person. Young, and reckless, in a band….going off gigging to far away places, sleeping in the back of … Continue reading

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Our family outback adventures captured on film. (Episode 1)


The other night as my husband and I went on an evening walk with the dog I was lamenting about how memories in the far distant past seemed so much more poignant…Almost as though the experiences we had all those … Continue reading

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Ambushed.


My teenagers have learned my weaknesses and know how to ambush me first thing in the morning, when I’m asleep, because they know that’s when I’m at my most vulnerable. “Mum, I have a temperature and my glands are up … Continue reading

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Anatomically incorrect.


We were driving somewhere one day when our then twelve year old daughter announced from the backseat… “Mum, my urethra is sore.” There was a moment of stunned silence from my husband and I before I cleared my throat, gathered … Continue reading

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