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My recent crafty tempt is to make some wooden popsicle bookmarks. I don’t know if anyone nowadays still thinks that making a bookmark is worth their precious time, as people rarely read from a real book now, and it is just so easy to find something to slip between pages. It’s no doubt that bookmarks [...]

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Monday—wiped all the windows, Tuesday—washed the carpet, Wednesday— set up the cot, Thursday— did laundry and washed all the baby clothes and stuff, dried them in the sun and folded them away, Friday— got baby car seat installed and saw the midwife in the afternoon, Saturday went to the whole day parent course organised by [...]

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We spent the whole Sunday just re-tidying up and cleaning off some old stuff at home. We threw out hundreds of paper boxes and another thousand of assorted unused items. I can’t believe that it took us so long to do it and it’s even harder to believe that we have so much clutters that [...]

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Recently I have been re-reading an old book, A Year In Provence by Peter Mayle. It is actually one of the great favourites of mine for all these years. I am not a reading person at all. I don’t have a moment of reading a book on the train or on the bed. I would [...]

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As planned for one of our Easter Holiday activities, we went to Wollongong today. It’s supposed to be nice one day trip, but let me tell you a better story. It’s about how the whole visit had turned to a hilarious show of some person’s stupidity. And that person, is ME. First thing is that [...]

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This Tuesday I went to Goulburn to do a home visit in an aboriginal family on my own. It didn’t turn out terribly perfect as the only adult in this family forgot about this appointment, regardless that I had rung her three times before I went over. To be honest, I sort of knew this [...]

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