Sitting and waiting in my 6 monthly routine neurology appointment makes my stomach turn. What has gone wrong this time? What new lesions will be lighting up my brain. The longer I wait, the worse it is and my neurologist is reliably an hour late. When I’ve driven over 5 hours to get here I […]
Category Archives: Musings
A Cuppa With Clare – Life Update
Grab a cuppa and enjoy a bit of a life update. Doing: working, visiting, road tripping, eating, cooking, tidying. Our staff had two weeks off at this time of the year and we like to use it to catch up on non-program related work. That’s involved putting a lot of important documents into storage, and […]
July Taking Stock
Making: lists. Cooking: stew with root veggies and a deer shank. I cooked it on our tiny gas hob for 7 hours. It was delicious and even better the next day. Drinking: All the tea and weekend red wine Reading: I Am Pilgrim – it’s oh so long and I’m sort of done with it […]
Dream Job!
We’ve spent the last three weeks packing. Madly packing. Because just over three weeks ago we found out that we were successful in our application for our dream job. Directing Wollangarra. You might have seen the news on Instagram or Facebook, but if you haven’t here it is. For the next three years, Jay and […]
Why We Stopped Meal Planning
I’ve raved about meal planning, I love it. I really do. I love the organising, I love the planning and I love knowing what I need to buy. But recently I have found that it wasn’t working for us. We’ve started buying our meat from a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) monthly membership, and because of this […]
Life Lately – Taking Stock
MAKING: I’m loving sewing these little essential oil bags to send to anyone who signs up to my DoTERRA team. COOKING: simple food. Meat and vegetables mostly, not a lot of sugar, and eggs, lots of eggs. DRINKING: hot strong milky tea READING: Sarah Wilson’s First, we make the beast beautiful*. I don’t consider myself to have anxiety, nor […]
5th Wedding Anniversary at INGI
A little over a month ago now Jay and I celebrated our fifth wedding anniversary. It’s the one excuse we can think of each year to try the current ‘in’ restaurant in our area. Over the last few years we have dined at some gorgeous places. They’re always way out of our budget but it’s […]
Monthly Meal Plan 13
We picked up our second Sage Choice CSA pack last weekend. I really wanted to share with you what amazing value this is, how easy it makes our shopping and how we have more meat than we can eat each month. The meat is wonderful quality, tastes amazing and I know has had such a […]
In My Kitchen… March 2017
I’ve decided to do a little bit of a different take this month and I hope you’ll understand and enjoy it. As you know, I love making videos and I have been sharing my In My Kitchen post via video for the last few months. Over on YouTube I’ve noticed that people love to share a […]
Monthly Meal Plan?
It’s funny how things, thoughts, plans, and life ebbs and flows. A few years ago I set out to reduce and eventually eliminate single use plastic from our home. I came to realise that it wasn’t realistic for us. We do what we can, but our focus at this point in our lives has to be […]
Continental and Ripe Near Me
This post is written in partnership with Continental and Ripe Near Me* Around 18 months ago I was walking down the street, probably pushing the pram up the giant hill we live on, when I passed a neighbourhood centre. A sign in the window caught my attention. It was a small, A4 poster advertising a […]
Jay’s Away So We’ll Play
Jay’s away this fortnight and I wasn’t going to do a meal plan, but groceries need to be done and it gives me a good idea of what to cook on some of those super long days. As you probably know from this post, we don’t need to buy too much fresh produce these summer […]
