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In Print

There’s something much more exciting about being published in print than on the web.

Maybe it’s because everybody’s writing on the web these days. This week SOHI magazine got their third issue out and I have an article in it. I am in print, on paper, for the first time. (Not counting a co-produced zine [...]

Highland Holidays

Finally, today is the last day of the school holidays. Our school had a full extra week of holidays before the rest of NSW as we don’t have the pupil-free Mondays. So it was with some trepidation that I entered this three week school break. However, I needn’t have worried. It really was a break, [...]

Old dogs, new tricks.

I’m hopeless at remembering to take ‘before’ photos. I had to trawl back through time before I found one that was good enough to show how the old couch looked. Brown. Corduroy. Mmmm. The bonus is you get an old photo of 3.5 year old Fraser and six week old Lincoln to enjoy.

And [...]

Learning curves

We’ve had some exciting firsts lately.
Fraser has learnt to ride his bike without training wheels. Since the long weekend he’s gained so much more confidence. He’s ridden to our friend’s house, around the corner, and regularly goes riding with Matt.
We had his parent-teacher interview last Friday, the first day of our school holidays. [...]

Always take a lucky friend to the meat raffles.

Friday night is meat raffle night at our local pub. We proposed the idea to a couple of friends when one of them proclaimed that they often have a bit of luck at these things. Well, I’m glad they came because he won two of the three meat trays on offer. Hoorah!
My second tip is: [...]