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’s been 10 years since our first visit to this lovely playground. It was called Pimelea Playspace in those days, and was and is a terrific feature of the huge Western Sydney Parklands. This is a wonderful area for a big picnic, the facilities are really terrific. But the kids will also enjoy coming for […]
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 […]
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 […]
When you have your first baby, you have no idea how important your local playgrounds are going to be in your life. But it’s when you have your second child that you realise how important it is to know where are all the fully-enclosed, fenced playgrounds are. Let’s raise a cheer for all the councils […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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!!
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!!
