Celebrating in Style – An Anniversary in Sydney

Monday 22nd February was our wedding anniversary, and we celebrated with a night at the Sofitel Darling Harbour in Sydney. We masked up and braved the train - our first journey on public transport for months - arriving to a warm welcome around 11am, where we ditched our bag and went off for a walk …

THANKFULNESS

I recently saw a joke on Facebook that went along these lines, that cute toddler offering you a biscuit is not an adorable child. It's stomach flu. Despite the absence of biscuit-bearing toddlers - cute, adorable, or any other flavour - I managed to get a gastric virus recently. I was one very sick puppy, …

Of Chimney Sweeps and Other Urchins

Derrick Knight's recent post on child labour and chimney sweeps prompted me to re-read my copy of Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies. I must have been around eleven when I last read this book. We didn't have television, and I didn't have a sibling near my age, so I was a voracious reader. Books were precious to me. …