Hooray! I took the twins to Speers Point playground and we had a fabby time! It really is a magnificent play space. It’s just huge with all sorts of great play equipment. And a cafe has just opened up. It’s called Sal’s and the number is 49081108. Heaven! We took lots of photos and I’ve […]
Seriously, this is one of the best playgrounds in the whole of Sydney. Don’t take my word for it, just pack up the car, fling in the kids and get over there. Yamble Reserve is a huge park, with vast areas of smooth lawns and within it is this enormous and very beautiful playground. Built […]
Hee are some piccies of our messy window art from when my kids were little. They still do make drawing with chalk pens on the windows, it’s an activity that’s stood the test of time! We buy the chalk pens at Smiggle. Mum does rule!!
Ah, it’s a big day here at Casa Catastrophe. It’s Dexbox’s 13th birthday, we lose another son to the Teenage Years. To celebrate and commiserate, here’s the recipe for the cake the twins and I will be baking for him. It’s a chocolate and beetroot cake, rich and indulgent but with veggies too. And super […]
It was the search for the ideal fully fenced playground that set me off researching Sydney’s best places. I had a really wild, hyper boy-child who was a serial bolter. I could run faster than him for the first couple of years. Then I was pregnant with number two son and it became just too […]
Yes, these stings were as painful as they look. Ouchy ouch! Bluebottles are commonly found on Sydney beaches, and indeed, around all of Australia. The official name for these marine maniacs is physalia. But I much prefer the name I learned as a child Portuguese man o’ war. These jellyfish aren’t found in Scotland but […]
All my recipes from The Mum’s Diet blog are being moved over here as I am closing down that site. Can’t manage two blogs! Here’s one of the faves. I like baking and the family likes eating cakes. That’s handy then. If I can squeeze a few veggies into the cake so much the better, but […]
It was the search for the ideal fully fenced playground that set me off researching Sydney’s best places. I had a really wild, hyper boy-child who was a serial bolter. I could run faster than him for the first couple of years. Then I was pregnant with number two son and it became just too […]
Alright, we admit it, we are playground nerds. And when in Cairns, there’s one huge and very marvellous playground which demands to be visited. So we got straight over there one sunny day. Luckily, it’s just a short walk from where we were staying at the Novotel. Muddy’s Playground on the Esplanade in Cairns is […]
All my recipes from The Mum’s Diet blog are being moved over here as I am closing down that site. Can’t manage two blogs! Here’s one of the faves. I like baking and the family likes eating cakes. That’s handy then. If I can squeeze a few veggies into the cake so much the better, but […]
Hee are some piccies of our messy window art from when my kids were little. They still do make drawing with chalk pens on the windows, it’s an activity that’s stood the test of time! We buy the chalk pens at Smiggle. Mum does rule!!
It was the search for the ideal fully fenced playground that set me off researching Sydney’s best places. I had a really wild, hyper boy-child who was a serial bolter. I could run faster than him for the first couple of years. Then I was pregnant with number two son and it became just too […]
Ah, it’s a big day here at Casa Catastrophe. It’s Dexbox’s 13th birthday, we lose another son to the Teenage Years. To celebrate and commiserate, here’s the recipe for the cake the twins and I will be baking for him. It’s a chocolate and beetroot cake, rich and indulgent but with veggies too. And super […]
When we moved as a family to Sydney in 1988, hubby, myself and our oldest son who was then only 18 months old, we spent many, many mornings and afternoons at this playground. I’ve written about the many emotions it still brings up in me in this post: The Ghost of Playgrounds Past. But I […]
