I’ve done a couple of these little three-day stints in the past few months, and until now they’ve been fantastic for getting a huge...

This seems lovely, doesn’t it? Until you realise that is not the ocean Garnet is wallowing in but actually self-pity. See the ripples of...

Dumbledore (left) and Huntsman Who Did Not Heed Me (right) Sydney’s in the middle of a plague of spiders. Summer forgot to end and for...

How I cope with this is to put aside what I should be doing (perhaps preparing my keynote speech for the International Conference on...

Obviously this is not the beach we went to in this story. This is Waikiki beach, where I have also been grumpy in the recent past. I’m...

Apocalypse now, or have we time for another coffee before the end of days? ‘Why do I still have to go to kindy?’ May Blossom moaned  to...

I have been exercising quite a lot. It turns out the trick to exercise is not trying too hard. Apparently I knew this when I was a child...

I’m generally pretty hopeless at looking the bad aspects of our world in the eye. I’m didn’t participate in any vigils for Andrew Chan...

It took half an hour to even upload this far-too-small image, due to iPhoto (or iFighto as my Dad has long called it) deciding that...

May Blossom re-enacts what will happen if you don’t shut about about your birth plan while having coffee with friends. My friends Lou and...

One of the many dangerous roads of the world that are all out to get my children, according to my pregnancy-addled brain. Have you ever...

Oh for the days when the in-seat phone was all the entertainment she needed. In about four hours we are heading to the airport to fly for...

This pregnancy I have been plagued with insomnia, which is not something I have ever experienced before. I was the kid who could fall...

That sort of casual attitude is exactly how I did NOT approach breastfeeding. I approached it with a delightful cocktail of fear,...

It probably wasn’t as awful to others as it was to me, but most of the other mums there have two or more kids, and I suddenly felt like a...

Did you know there is such a thing as Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease? No? Well, you do now. I highly recommend not google-image searching...

Welcome to Cape Fear. Also Cape Hliarious Strategic Removal of Letters on Signs. I’ve been thinking this morning about H’s and my...