Giovanna the Bank Teller
Towards the end of our conversation, I pull my glasses down from the top of my head. They’ve been sitting on recently washed hair. So, through wet, fogged up lenses, I make out the name, Giovanna.
Read MoreThe First Pill
If you don’t come from Brisbane, how often do you look up the BOM website to get a weather forecast? For this blogger it is at least once a year and a comforting traditional prediction is there for today… showers and thundery rain. Huey has not disappointed. Mother Nature’s roulette wheel is spun around this time of the year, every year on the first day of the Brisbane Test.
Read MoreManaging Alien Abductions
My grandparents’ house is still on the farm. Grandpa worked his orchard for decades. After he retired, my uncle took over, building his own place there. We’re lucky, our tribe has got an actual place – ‘Gruyere’, in Victoria’s Yarra Valley. As kids, each of my brothers, sister and cousins used to get their turn in the school holidays up at Grandma and Grandpa’s.
Read MoreA Life’s Work… of Art
Life can be so fast. Don’t you think that a funeral, in a strange way, is an oasis in the post-modern world? The ritual has its own pace. If you decide to go, you cancel your appointments and clear some time well beyond the expected finish. You are there to honour the deceased.
Read MoreWashing the Dog
Do you ever notice things have changed through some task that you do repeatedly?
I had this experience on the weekend. It is part of my household role description to wash the dog. We’ve got a West Highland Terrier named Sno-Joe (my daughter wanted to call him Snowy and my son wanted to call him Joseph!) He is approaching ten years old. Still pretty fit and well but definitely getting older. So the first thing noticed with this regular task is that Sno-Joe didn’t flinch when I asked him if he wanted a bath. The words ‘bath’ or ‘wash’ tend to see him get up and find a hiding spot. It is terrible teasing but we always get a laugh from our dog’s antics – please don’t tell me that dogs aren’t intelligent creatures.
Read MoreRecent Posts
- Jonathan Holloway – Highlights
- Jonathan Holloway – Full Interview
- Notre Dame Yr 7 Girls at Home
- Notre Dame Yr 7 Boys at Home
- Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
- Mem Fox’s ‘Rather Wonderful’ Idea for ‘This Weird Time’
- A Reverse Birthday Present
- Time & Space at Home
- Notre Dame College Father and Daughter Night (done a little bit differently)
- The Big Treasure in the Car Park
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