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Plague of 2010. Snap, crackle and POP.

M has been sick for the past two weeks. Coughing like a hardened smoker, sore throat, the works. Small Z and I thought that we had missed out. We thought wrong. This is DISEASE! This is THE PLAGUE....

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Sedentary and Sick

M has been sick as a phlegmy dog for the past three days. Last night poor Small Z woke up at 3am and I almost burnt my hand off on her hot little head. So today there was no work for me, that will come...

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Love it late

A week in the trenches with Small Z enmeshed in the kind of cold that saw green conger eels of snot emerging from her hose nose every 20 minutes or so. Accompanied, of course, by the kind of...

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Rainstorming…

Yesterday we got up and Small Z was skanky from the get-go. There was no way I was going to do what I had planned – which was attend my first ABA meeting. I met a woman in a cafe on Saturday, a meeting...

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Gathering

Sunday I stuffed the slow cooker with kangaroo stew, made a cake and stewed some rhubarb. Late in the afternoon She-Who-Will-Not-Be-Blogged, She-Who-Will-Not-Be-Blogged’s partner and Small Brother came...

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From far away…

Rescuing himself from the jaws of an impending flight on United Airlines with no personal video screen, a Sydney stopover, no laptop plug and the worst legroom of almost any airline, Small Brother...

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Sunny day, everything’s A-OK…

A day that began with me going on a solo bike ride. Down the street. To get some milk and go to the chemist. Most of you won’t find this at all intriguing. But for me, being able to take off, on my...

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Somers

This was our first foray to the closest swimming beach. Next time I’ll pack more snacks… It didn’t go too badly. Goddamn! Here I am posting something on the same day it happened! I feel that something...

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Bringing down the tone

A telephone call from our new real estate agent a few days ago. How it should have gone: 

“Hi Beth, this is Peter. I’m just calling to query you on the caravan in the front yard.” 

“??!” 

“Uh, the...

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A much needed recap

It has been such a hiatus in writing that I hardly know where to begin. The month of January 2010 passed by in a smear of fatigue and bustle. (As I am posting this in retrospect, let me say that if I...

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