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I Realised I Couldn’t Save the World But I Could Make Someone’s World Better 8 September 2015 I know a lot of us are feeling it. That sense of helplessness in a world full of sadness and desperation. My brain keeps trying to come up with clever solutions to everyone’s...

Learning Something Little Felt Really Big 22 June 2015 I have been wanting to learn how to make cheese forever. It is second to salami on my stuck on a deserted island food list. But I have always been too busy, too tired or too boring. It took my fella...

When Funk Doesn’t Involve a Cool Bassline 15 June 2015 Some days, weeks and even years are harder than others. Just getting upright and propelling yourself forward is all you can muster. It sucks and it is hard. When mid rut, cooking for the family is possibly the last thing...

Love in a Jar 19 May 2015 My best friend has a lemon tree. I don’t. She is 5 foot flat. I’m not. My tiny best friend has limited access to the full stash of lemons from her heaving tree, so I help myself to the bounty just out her...

This time every year I start to get all deep and meaningful. I assess the situations current in my life and look to where they may head, why they're heading in that direction and if it isn't the way I want them to be going, then all of a sudden I start to think...

Have you got a song that just spoke to you at the right time. It said everything you were feeling when you felt no one else was feeling it? This song came on my shuffled playlist this morning and I had to share. I had totally forgotten about it. But...

In 1996, I was 20. I moved in to a crumbling art deco apartment on busy Barkly Street, St Kilda. I had minimal possessions, the most important of them being my 3000+ CD collection and my coffee percolator. If that was all I had, I was fine. Nothing much has...

Bagels, Balls and Living Life Your Way 27 October 2014 I know it looks like there hasn’t been much happening in Lunch Lady land lately, but I can assure you, nothing can be further from the truth. Things are happening, for sure, and all will become apparent very soon! BUT,...

to put our head under the pillow and think "if I can't see the problems and they can't see me, they don't exist". This is how I have lived most of my life, it is hard to admit that. The older I get the more I am understanding that problems...

If at First You Don’t Succeed… 8 August 2014 Something amazing happened this morning. I made a loaf of bread. Now most of you might think that this is not amazing at all. A lot of you may think I am a born baker who can whip magic out of...

Why Are Mums Channelling Derryn Hinch? 6 August 2014 Shame… Shame… Shame… Mum Shame… Mum shaming, it is a thing isn’t it? Mum’s who don’t agree with another mum’s ideas and dragging them over the coals. I really struggle with this. I have actually always struggled with how women turn...

I buried myself in to a little hole. It started off as a little rut, then I got sad about being in a rut so I dug a hole. Then the hole became bigger and before I knew it I was wallowing in an open cut mine of misery. I...

As I was driving the kids to school, something amazing happened. Well not really, amazing amazing. But in my world it was amazing. The sun punched through the trees in beautiful rays of light, hitting the mist of the mountain morning. I pulled the car over and the girls knew...

Passata Day 2014, Get Those People You Love Over! 18 March 2014 This weekend was the most special weekend in our little family’s calendar. It is a weekend where we crush 200kg of tomatoes and make our yearly supply of passata. It is a day where we invite the people...

I know, I know. I haven't put a recipe on here for ages! And I promise there is one right around the corner. Life has been quite hectic lately and I just haven't had the time to put my recipes to paper. But I HAVE had time for the occasional...