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And then there were four: Dealing with death
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Who are the (not so) famous four? Buy Nothing New for a Year. Sunday, 3 May 2015. Flying between Kathmandu and Pokhara in March. The news in our city for the past week or so has been nothing but death and despair. After our wonderful trip to Nepal, Nugget and I and the rest of our family have been attentively watching the aftermath of the devastating earthquake on April 25. 7.8 on the Rikter scale. With all this in the news, the children have been asking many questions about death. Dew Drop has been ...
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And then there were four: Dear John
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Who are the (not so) famous four? Buy Nothing New for a Year. Wednesday, 24 December 2014. One minute it was April and then it was December! The year has flown. Don't you think! I have barely blogged this year and I feel so sad that all the tiny little memories from the year have slipped by unrecorded. I want to write it all down but already I have forgotten. The little stories. The funny one-liners. The things that let you see the trees in the forest. Back to work full time. Happy 10 in Blackheath.
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And then there were four: December 2014
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Who are the (not so) famous four? Buy Nothing New for a Year. Monday, 29 December 2014. The school holidays are well and truly upon us. We have had a deliberately quiet couple of weeks; some much needed down time for all. Late nights and late mornings. Messing up and tidying the house several times a day. Numerous Lego constructions, craft projects and backyard cricket matches. They have also learnt to look out for each other and to play together and to have oodles of fun together. It is just fabulous.
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And then there were four: April 2014
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Who are the (not so) famous four? Buy Nothing New for a Year. Monday, 28 April 2014. The story of Chip. Nugget has always been called Nugget. All the nicknames I use on the blog are real. My poor children are actually called Doo Dah, Dew Drop, The Minx and Nugget in real life too. When he was a little fella, Nugget was a very chubby bubby. He ate like a champion and did absolutely nothing to expend the energy. He had roll upon roll in that delightful way that babies do. I told him he'd been Nugget well b...
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And then there were four: Buy Nothing New for a Year
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Who are the (not so) famous four? Buy Nothing New for a Year. Buy Nothing New for a Year. On February 1, 2011 our family committed to Buying Nothing New for a year. It has been an interesting challenge. In February, after umming and ahhing over the challenge, we decided to take the plunge. Although we do not consider ourselves to be 'shoppers', we noticed that all the little things we buy. A can of worms was opened. By March, the little issue of getting presents started to become a problem. Stemmed from ...
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And then there were four: 101 in 1001
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Who are the (not so) famous four? Buy Nothing New for a Year. In 2011 I took a leaf out of Kelly's. Reorganise the children's toy cupboard and donate all the baby toys to the local op-shop. Get a skin cancer check. Get rid of the possum in our roof. Take the kids to the dentist. Get the kids' eyes re-checked. Hand-make this year's Advent calendar. Do a fun-run where I raise money for charity. Go for a night out with the Geege and dance. Have at least one full weekend to myself. Read 2 books per month.
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And then there were four: April 2015
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Who are the (not so) famous four? Buy Nothing New for a Year. Monday, 20 April 2015. I flew over the Himalaya when I was returning from Germany in 1992. I saw the sun rise over that vast mountain range and it was a sight I have never forgotten. I've always wanted to experience it from the ground. Nugget and I fulfilled the dream last month. We took ourselves to trek in the Annapurna Ranges in Nepal, with our friends Kate and Jack #mumandsondonepal*. Here is a smattering of snaps that I took along the way.
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And then there were four: Ten years of parenting
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Who are the (not so) famous four? Buy Nothing New for a Year. Sunday, 12 April 2015. Ten years of parenting. I saw this thing on Facebook the other day: "Getting your baby to sleep in 40 seconds". That'd be right I thought. After all my years of trying to get non-sleepers to sleep, they have now discovered the 'solution'. Be mean but if you could only have seen the amount of bum-pat-101 that I endured, you'd be mean too. Babies still suck and they still don't come with a manual. I do know that I am glad ...
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And then there were four: Carnage
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Who are the (not so) famous four? Buy Nothing New for a Year. Sunday, 27 April 2014. The Geege awoke in the middle of the night and crashed and banged down the dark hallway, in a hurry. I awoke to him crying out "It's got Fluffy! Fluffy's dead". I raced towards the scene of the crime to see a pile of blood stained feathers. I asked, standing completely still with my hand over my month. Immediately traumatised. Immediately wondering how we would break the news to Doo Dah. "Where are the others? She was al...
