by Ria Voros | Nov 17, 2016 | From Ria, Kids and Parenting, Seasonal, Travel
Last year around this time I wrote about the Jane Austen tradition I wanted to start for Little e, given that she was turning an impressive four years old and it was about time to get meaningful. (Yes, I have written this year’s letter.) And now that she’s five...
by Hannah | Nov 9, 2016 | Food, From Hannah, Includes a recipe!, Kids and Parenting
You’ve probably realised my biscuit / cookie fanaticism by now. Absolutely love cake but if it’s me baking there’s just nothing better than “bikkies”. It might be because they are fast to make. It might be because you can eat the...
by Ria Voros | Nov 2, 2016 | From Ria, Kids and Parenting, Seasonal
It’s now been almost two months since Little e started kindergarten. I know. That was quick. But I’ve recently started keeping her home on Fridays, which is something I’d wanted to do from the start, and for which we got absolute support from her...
by Hannah | Oct 26, 2016 | Books & Reading, From Hannah, Kids and Parenting, Travel, Writing
Well, we said we’d do it and we did. Stubbornness prevailed… Marjory and the Mouse is here! Look at it, would you? I think I am as biased about the beauty and charm of the book (due to Mahe and Luis and Helena – merci and obrigada!) as...
by Ria Voros | Oct 12, 2016 | Food, From Ria, Includes a recipe!, Kids and Parenting, Seasonal
I am not Martha Stewart (or whomever the most current example of domestic goddess-ness is). I gaze at the cooking magazine covers with perfectly-glazed cookies and tastefully decorated seasonal tables and wish, as always, that I could just get invited to one of those...
by Hannah | Oct 5, 2016 | Books & Reading, From Hannah, Kids and Parenting, Writing
I recently listened to an illustrator describe the tools she had used to produce a picture book – “graphite pencils, watercolour, collage, old photographs…and stubbornness.’ Ah. Yes. Picture books may look simple. In fact, the simpler they look or seem,...
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