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When Life Gets Busy
At the bottom of Elisabeth’s Cool Bloggers Walking Club Week 2 Recap she asked the question: “Do you cut exercise when your schedule gets too full or do you drop something else and if so, what?” I am currently in a period where my schedule has been a little more full than usual. I work…
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Friday Thoughts #21
Each year the NGV puts on a special Winter Masterpieces Exhibition. I went to The Picasso Century in 2022 and last year I went to Pharoah. Yesterday I took myself off the the city for this year’s exhibition—French Impressionism: From the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This was actually one that we had plans to…
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List #33: Places I Need to Declutter and Organise
With all our travel I’ve felt like I haven’t been home long enough to get into a good routine and find some time to tackle the parts of the house that are devolving slowly into chaos. Here’s what needs tackling: I did manage to get the freezer sorted out before we went up to Sydney…
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A Little Peak in our Bedroom
I had on my list to get an artwork and some kind of storage for our bedroom. We had seen the perfect cabinet last year when we were helping our daughter look for a new bed but the cabinet was out of stock at the time. We found an artwork in January and in February…
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It doesn’t take long …
for the garden to get out of control again. You wouldn’t know that I’d tidied it all up for Christmas. G has been home but has not been tending the garden. Besides some well-past-best snowpeas and the weeds, I’m pretty happy with how it has grown, considering their neglect. We arrived home Saturday, and it…
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Advent Calendars and Jesse Trees
Last week, Elisabeth took us on a tour of her Christmas decorations (which are gorgeous, by the way), and I commented that this year, I only have the tree and a nativity scene. We used to have a sock advent calendar and a Jesse Tree when the kids were smaller, though, and Elisabeth was keen…
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Good Things Friday
This is my weekly look at what is good, true, beautiful and lovely … but first, WTF??? We decided to turn off The Project last night when they started the segment analysing what it would mean for Australia if Trump implemented all his policies. We figured it was better to wait and see what he…
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List # 10: Five Simple Household Items That Make Life Better
I’m not a person who is into things, but sometimes you find something that is so much better than the crappy thing you’ve been using for years, that you have to acknowledge it. Here are five things from our house that make my life easier. 2. My Microplane. This makes it so easy to get…
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Good Things Friday
Have I mentioned before that I was inspired by Elisabeth identifying her “Happy Things Friday” posts as a “Sabbath practice” to regard these posts as my own Sabbath practice? Wirzba’s emphasis on delight in his book Living the Sabbath prompted me once again to think about these posts in the context of Sabbath living, leading…
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Good Things Friday
This week, I had a laze around and eat weekend at Noosa, with lots of good food and good views. G had a solid run in the Noosa half-marathon in preparation for the Gold Coast Marathon in July. He’s nursing an Achilles injury, and we’re hoping it holds up until then so he can get…