We’ve had two frosty nights in a row and I’ve had two of my best sleeps in weeks. I don’t think it’s a coincidence.
I must be hot blooded or I have a hot body (puns galore) because I regularly overheat during the night.
By that I mean I can feel my body heat rising. If it [...]
I would never rely on an automated online translation service to communicate with someone who speaks a foreign language. I might use it for a short sentence, or with apologies in advance, but never in a formal sense.
The Israeli journalists who questioned the Dutch Foreign Minister using a web translator must be extremely embarrassed.
The Israeli [...]
Our furniture arrived today. They didn’t finish unloading until late this afternoon, so we’ve got lots of unpacking to do and most things are still in boxes.
At least we’re all sleeping in our own beds tonight.
We nearly didn’t have it delivered today because I had to fax back a quarantine form declaring we had no [...]
I had some quality time yesterday with my two-year-old daughter Margaret. Juliet and I don’t get to spend much individual time with either of the twins, for obvious reasons.
The exception was caused by Juliet travelling to Yarra Glen to pick up Kathleen and Dude from my father, who was meeting her part of the way [...]
Tis the season to be jolly and all that, but Christmas morning for parents is madness. We managed a seven o’clock sleep-in this year, only because the big kids were under orders to wait until the toddlers woke up. James was the last to rise.
We then opened presents, which in proportion to the time it [...]
Juliet fears losing her “baby” now that James is sleeping in a bed. He switched successfully from a cot to a single bed last night. He actually seemed rather pleased with himself.
The catalyst was Kathleen wanting to separate the bunk bed in her room to a single, with half being transferred to the nursery for [...]
I generally say that summer in North East Victoria runs from November 1 to Dude’s birthday (March 21). As if on cue, the mercury nudged 30 degrees today for the first time since April and the chirping cicada choir arrived.
The blowflies are buzzing, mozzies are menacing and multiple bugs of all shapes and sizes are [...]
My correspondent continues her story of the Gorey ghost in the Welsh mountains:
The haunting didn’t stop and there were many more times when we, or one or two visitors saw, or felt a spirit. I don’t know if it was the same one, or different ones. The house — Bwlch yn Horeb, known as the [...]
I received this email overnight:
I live in the UK. 40 years ago we moved to a 400 year old farmhouse halfway up a Welsh mountain (we lived there with our three sons for a few years). It was on the site of a Roman cattle road. The house needed a lot of fixing. We took [...]
There were some nice highlights today to give me good memories of my weekend in the big smoke.
Up early, I discovered "the city that never sleeps" has a quiet spell between 5am and 6am.
I went for a run/walk, skirting the edges of The Domain and following the foreshore (it’s hard to run contiguously though traffic [...]
