Amy

It is raining outside. I have a cat leaning on my foot and a dog snuggled to my hip. A cup of tea has been delivered.

The Repair Shop has still got it. 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

Sleepwalking kids are only funny when they’ve gone back to sleep. Until then it is frightening! They looks so like themselves but also not at all.

Why I love shopping local: buying some chicken from the butchers in Taradale and she came out to give Decca a few bits of chuck 🐶😍🐶😍

I’m afraid I am. I remember our parents letting us stay up to watch a horror called Maelstrom and my sister and I still talk about it today.

What I would do for a truly epic Montana Sunday Theatre right about now.

What’s with all the sirens Napier?

It changed our childhoods, no more walking to school alone. I remember it vividly.

The joys of a smaller garden: we have weed sprayed, lawn sprayed, pruned, weeded and watered and it is now 11.54am.

Lying on Noosa Beach while reading The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes (the colonisation of Australia) - it is very hard to understand the horror.

This is not something one says often but today it is true - I absolutely stink of koala.

Can report we just lowered the average age at the departure gate by some distance. #noosa

Had a tight turnaround from domestic to international. Can report we made it to in and through customs in 30 minutes so my nightmares were WRONG

Alarm set for 4.55 to get to airport. But you better believe I’m already awake after a litany of ‘can’t find the kids/passport/taxi’ nightmares. ✈️🌺🌴🍍

We are off to the Sunshine Coast tomorrow for 7 days r&r. First time off work and first family holiday since the Cyclone. Have been a dried out husk of a shell of a person this last month so to say I’m looking forward to it is a huge understatement.

Dog looking extremely affronted

Decca has seen Suitcases and does not approve

Got the wordle in two
Today was a good day

It should be ILLEGAL for it to be this cold in October.

Curried mince and rice with a bucketful of hidden veg. And green beans on the side.

Pearl was thirsty today

Stanley is down on t’farm with a mate and has just requested a second night. ‘We’re shooting turkeys!’

AND my beetroot seeds in my Vegepod have germinated. Tiny crimson flashes against dark soil.

After a week of sickness, both kids are on play dates and I am Pottering in my Kitchen, listening to BBC Radio 2, two of my favourite things to do. 😌

I just caught this guy being a bossy bum to a sparrow.

Yes please

Related to my plague-house, is it true that you can just waltz up to a chemist now and get free RAT tests?

We are going to Noosa next Friday for a doctor’s orders holiday, so I guess at least they’re getting this out of the way before then? Silver linings yet again?

My first through was The Rest is History Tom Holland!

Three out of four in the house down with a cold/cough virus. I love school holidays!

I have achieved two things so I am content.