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Is it just me, or do these holidays just seem to appear out of nowhere? One minute you're driving to and from school, the next you're hosting friends and family for days on end of eating, drinking and egg hunting. Easter is a beautiful holiday, it is in my favourite...

An unreal lunchlady reader emailed me a recipe for zucchini brownies after I posted the chocolate zucchini cake a while ago. I was pretty excited to make them, but then my email had a meltdown and I lost my entire inbox (yay and sad all at once). It was a...

Autumn has come and she is beautiful. It is still warm enough to not be uncomfortable, but cool enough to rug up in your favourite coat and scarf. The soft gentle rain and the low cloud make these days dreamy. It was the perfect day to check up on our...

As some of you might know, I am slightly obsessed with instagram. I love it. I love taking photos and I love seeing what other people are taking photos of. It is so great sitting at my kitchen table with my lappy (laptop for you normal speaking non Australians) and...

I was driving home from school the other day, singing along to some song loudly and out of tune, with the girls, thinking about pizza. Nothing really concrete, just how I really like it. And salami. Pizza and salami could seriously be my last supper, in fact I had a...

How weird is this. Yesterday I thought "I should really write a post about staples, and how it makes life so easy when your pantry is stocked with them, hmmm… Kate that is a BRILLIANT idea!". Then I received an email from a lovely lady called Julie asking me to...

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...

It is pretty lovely to have another lady I have known for a while here on Same Old Crap. I shot her wedding (yep, I do that stuff) and now she has a little baby girl Clementine. Aaahh… it's so great when life works out and makes little people. I...

Hey there! These last few weeks have been so insane in our house. Our home looks like a clothing, passata and general crap bomb has gone off in every room. It is a little deflating, but with a week clear of obligations we will rebuild. This post is about dealing...

I have learnt recently that it is easier to not get all high and mighty and annoyed about pre packed things. See my pavgate experience on instagram. But when I came across these White Wings Lunchbox Heroes in the supermarket the other day I thought enough was enough.

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...

Well we all know what I think if this week's Same Old Crapper. He is the love of my life, my kid's life, the one who makes me giggle like an idiot and makes me believe I can do anything! He is my guy, Rohan, well I call him Ro,...

Here is another one of those super clever women I am lucky enough to know. As well as being a clever clogs (go check out her classes!) in the kitchen, Ruth like Michelle, has impeccable taste in music, a gorgeous home and amazing kids. She has also been another one great...

I remember when I thought I was too busy to sit down with my kids. To take time out and give them my full attention. So they could tell me about their world, what was on their mind or just for a cuddle. I always had 'something' to do, or...

It is such an awesomely amazing pleasure to have this lady here. Her beautiful blog, Hugo and Elsa, is such a treat. She is super duper clever, talented, beautiful and pretty bloody funny too. Oh and she has awesome taste in music. She also lives in one of my favourite...

This is pretty exciting! It is my first Same Old Crap from a new friend, someone who emailed me after reading the first Same Old Crap. Awesome! Keep em coming people!  Meet Nicola, she has an awesome blog, Homegrown Kitchen, please go and check it out, it is very pretty...

Ok, I'm sorry for the naff name (not really, I think it is awesome). But when I was driving the kids to school today it hit me like a bolt of comic genius lightening! It's a worry free dinner that doubles as a lunchbox winner! It's our problem free philosophy....

Drowning in home-grown zucchinis or being gifted zucchinis by people who are? This is the perfect recipe to get you through a zucchini glut.

Introducing… The Same Old Crap 5 February 2014 Welcome to Same Ol’ Crap, another regular series of posts for lunchlady. Same Ol’ Crap was inspired by a conversation I had a couple of weeks ago with a woman I share office space with (I know I have my own office...

I always wanted to set up a lemonade stand when I was a kid. But Frankston in the early 80s wasn't the place for entrepreneurial kids and their cute hand drawn signs. We had a few crazy neighbours, like the woman who took her budgie for a walk in its cage,...

I have a joke with a friend of mine, how we are 'that mum'. The naughty mum, the one who forgets (or in my case is totally in the dark) about special days at school, early finishing times or when school starts (just made the phone call today, it is...

As you know our lives have been fairly CRAZY over the last few forevers, but finally we are back home and life is starting to slip back in to that familiar groove. It is so comforting when the alarm chimes at it's usual time and you get up to do...

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...

It is so nice to be home. Back to the chilly Central Highlands and out of the heat of Central Australia. It is such a beautiful thing to come home, it is the best thing about a trip away, I think. To feel safe, loved and comfortable. I have thought...