I’ve had a little more success with the dreaded knitting today. Mum came around to do our weekly shopping today and showed me a different way that rings a bit of a bell in the dark recesses of my memory. Seems I was trying to force my Australian-but-wannabe-English brain how to cast on the American [...]

I’ve changed my mind: I don’t want to learn how to knit. It sucks, I hate it, knitting has defeated me. If only I could go back in time, find the person who invented knitting and stop them from ever picking up two sticks and some string!
Many moons ago (my birthday probably) Mum & Dad [...]

It’s still so cold! Somebody hasn’t told the weather that it’s been officially spring for a few weeks now. Kali has taken to not getting out of bed until well into the afternoon. I’ve been feeling so sorry for her that I don’t make the bed until much later in the day just so she [...]

Today we went to the zoo. After spending a couple of hours staring at animals and wondering if the feeding times advertised on the flyer involved feeding the shrill, annoying children to the lions, we decided it was time to go home. Unfortunately we’d missed our bus and the next wasn’t for an hour. "Let’s [...]