A good spot to stop on the way to Adelaide is a town called Keith. Cool name for a town eh. Keith is where we stop after we have crossed the border into South Australia from Victoria. We always buy a Golden North Giant Twins icecream because you can’t buy them in Victoria and My […]
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Made in Adelaide
Home of big clear skies Handsome buildings, so different from the heavy squatness of Melbourne bluestone. Adelaide is also home to Haigh’s chocolates since 1915, the favoured chocolates of fictional Melbourne detective Phyrne Fisher and the elegant Regent Arcade. Just off Rundle Mall, Regent Arcade where you will find Have You Met Charlie? a shop selling Adelaidian handmade […]
It is school holidays here and we took a family sojourn in central Goldfields area of Victoria where it is crisp and chilly. With an open fire and some sunny days, no one throwing up or injuring their back, it was one of our loveliest holidays in a long time. We stayed at Maldon, an old, frozen-in-time, […]
Since we have been home, a lot of mums have asked me how we kept the kids happy and occupied on our travels. Apart from the obvious excursions to castles, museum and parks, it was a little tricky. Our kids were used to lots of unsupervised time in our backyard, making stuff with sand, dirt […]
Our lost week spent sleeping jet lagging unpacking the house We are back home at last in the land of backyards, paddling pools, salad sandwiches and heat. No making yet, just nesting. Happy summer dear readers.
As Frau Holle shook out her feather bed in the sky realm and made it snow in Vienna, I turned a corner in the Leopold Museum and beheld a Feather Cloak. It looked as if gossamer had been used in its weaving, so fine and beautiful was it. The artist is Zeami Motokiyo and the work depicts […]
I turned my first sock heel in our lovely apartment in Vienna. Here I am doing the heel magic while supervising bath time. Ooooo Vienna, you are so lovely. Everywhere I looked was loveliness. All the buildings look like cakes iced in white piping. Granny chic is everywhere it seems. Apparently, the West shares but […]
Lost in a Cologne stairwell while wrestling the family suitcase down five flights of stairs…one Shawm Gadgie mitten. What is it about mittens that invites losing? What can you do with only one mitten? I shall sacrifice it to the knitting gods I reckon and my beloved man can buy himself a replacement pair…I am […]
It does not look like much does it? From little things…as they say. This is the mighty woad plant…the ancient source of blue for cloth dyers in the British Isles. It looks little because it is in its first year. You can’t get dye from it until the second year. I stumbled upon it (via […]
