Echobaby

Frost is starting Middle School next week.  Today we had our first school tour where he received his class assignment, schedule and locker. ...

Caitlin is showing me how to make pavlova. Here is the recipe: Recipe for 1 pavlova 4 egg whites Lemon Juice 1 T 1 T C...

This morning Wren looked out the window thoughtfully, while sucking kumquats from Granny's tree. "Mum, I am sorry.  I think I mig...

Wren has been bitten by a very small scorpion. Wren:  "I was sitting on the floor and playing Lego when it felt like I got a splinter...

Every morning we wake up and play "spot the koala" in the trees around Mum's house.  They are nocturnal but move in the day so...

Today we have been hunkered down with cake.  For breakfast I had a walk in the morning mist followed by chocolate raspberry muffin and frenc...

Now that we are home from the tropics we are doing our chores.  Today we did another walk removing feral plants with the pickaxe, draw a pic...

From time to time the boys are captivated by something and hunt, seek and accumulate it with  ferocious urgency.  I think this has a neurolo...

In Australia, Kangaroos are a barometer of otherness.  To locals, kangaroos are like cows.  Why on earth do people get excited about cows?...

Dusk and dawn are special times up here.  Night falls sharply and as it closes into deep blue tens of thousands of spectacled fruit bats ris...