Shaping the hearts and minds of children. Well year five and six anyway.

I am approaching tomorrow with what feels like a night out on the emotional bar tab rolling around in my head, pushing out against my eyes. More than anything I’m excited, beyond excited actually to be stepping into a classroom to teach Primary Ethics to years five and six at Ari’s school. If I didn’t [...]

Too busy eating icecream

I haven’t been around much this summer because, well it was summer. An all too fleeting time where so much happened that it was hard to keep track of the days and separate one from another. Most of it was spent at our new (vintage) caravan on the beach, some of it tossing fresh ingredients [...]

Joie de Vivre

Lady Moss is still in holiday la mode and will be back as soon as we stop trotting up to Bacchus (207 Darling Street) every afternoon at 3pm for fresh champagne. Tra la la…..

Ghosts of Halloween Past

It already seems so long ago with Christmas just around the corner, that I really need to do a round up of the Most. Awesome. Halloween. Ever. And those aren’t even my words, they were overheard coming from the mouth of one of our party guests so it must be true non? We kicked off [...]

beetlejuice Beetlejuice BEETLEJUICE!

Finally its the week before Halloween and joy oh joy, the party prep! When I start pulling out all the little projects I’ve been working on over the year in readiness for the best day of the year. Some I don’t even remember, I started them so long ago that seeing them carefully wrapped in [...]

24 Months On

So my baby boy turned two last week. Its taken me this long to reconcile myself to the fact that I can’t pronounce his age in months anymore. “Oh yes my son is 47 months old this week” slightly weird even for me…. We had a perfect little party for him just beloved family, pointy [...]

My Favourite Holiday!

I’ve mentioned before just how much I adore Halloween and this year coming is no exception! Rainbow Lane has been gearing itself up early and are not ashamed to admit to sewing costumes in July. We intend to win the Nicholson School Halloween Fete costume competition this year oh yes we do. Although, it wasn’t [...]

Our Place in the Sun

For ten years now, Mossy and I have been refreshing ourselves in the calm waters of Jervis Bay. We’ve been extra lucky in that, never have we had to pay for this soothing break in our everyday routine as his parents so generously share their beach house with us, my family, their friends and anyone [...]

Today I…

Washed out the water table for the first post nap splash-a-bout of the season. Craved salad for lunch followed by strawberries drizzled in sweet balsamic. Crunched mint leaves and jasmine between my fingers and inhaled deeply, the scent of summer drifting by on the hot wind.

The Best of The Best – you are the Top Guns.

Spring cleaning my sewing / craft table in readiness for the Christmas gift making rush, I couldn’t help but notice that I have amassed a pretty impressive cupboard of supplies. Crafting away for a year or two and slowly building up bits and pieces as we go, one can start a project at night and [...]