Just before dawn yesterday I had one of those very special nightmares where you wake, unable to breathe from the horror, saying to...

I, sadly not a celestial being, had to remain here on the earth that quaked every day for eight or nine hours as the diggers ripped...

But I’m confused, because although I think that’s what I said, what he seems to have heard is, ‘I am a Lego Detective. I can find any...

In the past I have been very bad at giving Valentine’s Day gifts to H, which is a great shame because he is far more romantic than I am...

Proper homemade gingerbread house that I had absolutely nothing to do with. Grandmothers are where it’s at. Good New Year to you, dear...

I don’t quite know what it is about December that makes me so down in the dumps every year, except oh yes, maybe I do. Maybe it’s the way...

I need to cull our belongings. This is a truth universally known. But I am also a sentimentalist at heart. I know how you’re meant to get...

Here instead is a list, which will show you how deeply embedded in my life is the music and lyrics of Leonard Cohen. Leonard Cohen Song...

I’m doing that thing I always do when I come back from new and wonderful, and I try to transport the lifestyle. When H and I went to...

And well might you ask, Talking Heads, well might you ask. Is a psycho killer a killer of psychos, or a psycho who kills? It’s a crucial...

We are disgraceful: this was one of only two photos we have of anyone in this family doing anything even vaguely athletic, while also not...

Garnet searching for his socks. We’ve been on a holiday. A driving holiday, and while I’ll try to write about that soon, and tell you all...

Sample bookshelf from my parents’ attic: Just one of the many collections of books that tells you probably more than you need to know...

Here’s how it goes: the kids catch a cold from school or kindy or licking a parking meter, they spend four or five days being snotty and...

Poor little kid. She and her brother are so prone to ear infections and croup. They just have tiny little respiratory tracts and...

This week he has been brought to howling tears by many and varied injustices. There was the fact that I would not go under the house to...

Occasionally he makes up a word (‘You nuckus!’) or just pops something that’s not an insult at all (‘You big sandwich!) None of it is...

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...

Garnet’s preschool curriculum focuses on how to induce guilt. The slow process of settling the kids into school and preschool continues...