Trumping anxiety with splendid wrens, old friends and junior football
The cold and wet weather of the past three weeks haven’t been good for my horrible fascination with Donald Trump; I can’t stop watching the hateful pour out of the orange-faced school bully. I can’t quite believe what I’m seeing and hearing and can’t believe there are so many people who think and feel the same […]
Broad Bean Dreaming. Basic Fruit Box
Yesterday between rain showers in the little garden we share with our friends we harvested the broad beans. Sticking out of old cooking pots and shopping bags were huge, instantly familiar green pods. These were unmistakably Joe Garita’s beans, broadies that Joe had planted, saved and improved year after year since he bought the Coburg market garden from a Chinese family in 1945. […]
Hassan and the longest, longest wait. festival 21
Today we were over at our park having a Christmas family portrait taken to be sent to the grandparents and uncles and aunties scattered around the world. Our sons went from cute to bored to completely weird as they coped with the interminable ordeal of being dressed relatively smartly,sitting in one spot for several moments and smiling. It was as mundane and everyday as could be – […]
Nathan's tomatoes now on sale for your Crowdsaucing Day.
The new Crowdsaucing website is up and the five tonnes of organic saucing tomatoes Nathan Free has been growing up at Lake Boga this summer are on sale for your Crowdsaucing Day Saturday April 30th. We’ve set the cut-off date to secure your saucing tomatoes on midnight Sunday 24th April. And with only 500 boxes […]
Pre-Christmas The Jackie Stewart Way. Hassan & Loula Update
This week there’s an end of year catch-up with family friends, a son’s birthday, a work wind-up, a kinder Christmas show, next week another son’s birthday, more work wind-ups, parents arrive from overseas, present buying, a car to service, loose ends to tie, more goodbyes, more drinks, late gifts, groceries, packing, wrapping, ringing …… It happens like this every year and […]
