It brought it all back - what it feels like to blow the white and yolk out of an egg, to blow into a hole slightly larger than a pin hole and expect the contents to come flooding out a hole the same size on the other end of the egg. It feels like blowing … Continue reading Blue dresses and blue food colouring
How’s the background noise in your house?
If I was ever talking to someone on the phone and could hear their kids in the background, I used to think, 'We're on the phone here. Can't you tell them we're on the phone. Have you even heard anything I've said?' Now we have our own children and nearly all of our friends and … Continue reading How’s the background noise in your house?
Tough day at the office
Elsie is holding her belly and laughing—a big belly laugh—at an episode of Shaun the Sheep that she has seen many times before. And seeing that, all is forgiven. We are home from our trip to the health centre, where I took her for her three-and-a-half-year-assessment. She starts three-year-old kinder at Easter and needs to … Continue reading Tough day at the office
Wet indoors and out
Why not another blog post or Facebook comment about the rain? Who'd have thought huh? Headers are stopped in the paddock, sitting in water and freeing men to catch up on sleep, play, bookwork or Queensland flood footage. 'Our hearts go out to those affected by the floods' is a term getting lots of air-time. Like … Continue reading Wet indoors and out
Sticker fun
I bought myself some time while I was getting ready for the market by handing Elsie a sheet of sticky labels that I'd been using for price tags. This is how I found the remote control later: We enjoyed having a stall at the Sugar & Spice Children's Market in Woodend on Sunday. From our … Continue reading Sticker fun
Harvest update
It started well. We got a day's harvesting in before the rain. Now it's onto all those farm jobs you save for a rainy day. Days. Week. Weeks. Surely not 'summer'. As for the locusts, they've arrived from the north, or hatched here, and make for a dodging dart to the clothes line. You know … Continue reading Harvest update
Writing by Larissa Patton 