Category: life rambling

And we’re back!

The husband and I have just spent most of the past week at my parents’ place, a lovely property about 45mins outside of Tamworth in NSW. I have pictures – some of them involve fire! – and will update soon but at the moment my traditional ‘returning to the horrible dirty crowded city’ let-down has …

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Headaches and a social life

And I’m not implying the two are linked :p I’ve woken up every morning for most of this week with a headache. What’s up with that? Too much sitting in front of the screen? The prescription for my glasses getting old? Back/neck tension? Any thoughts on the curing of said headaches that doesn’t involve the …

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What a week!

Sales conference time at work. That means half the week spent meeting publishers and authors, hearing about new books and eating a lot of food. Second half of the week devoted to an avalanche of post-conference work. I still have exhaustion. And we looked at appliances this morning for the new kitchen. Didn’t help. Back …

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Black cockatoo madness

After a day of pouring rain the clouds let up just enough to brighten into yellow, darken to orange, then fade finally to a bruise-deep purple. As I drove home the black cockatoos were doing their crazy weather dance in the sky, twisting and diving like the air was water and gravity didn’t touch them. …

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