tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37600924825306570522024-03-16T19:51:46.837+10:00monkeemoomoofinding beauty and joy in every daymonkeemoomoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00384928241028245857noreply@blogger.comBlogger681125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3760092482530657052.post-59898261168833406942014-06-22T20:15:00.000+10:002014-06-22T22:05:25.071+10:00The decluttering continues...<br />
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Someone told me recently that they thought that my Pinterest boards had gotten a little out of hand. <br />
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I disagree. For me, Pinterest is no different than ripping pages from magazines or newspapers and either pinning them onto an 'actual' pinboard or making a folder of favourite things. This is something I have done all of my life.<br />
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Recently, in my never ending quest to declutter, I came across a box (high in the cupboard) labelled: kids clothes. I knew for certain, that the contents of the box were definitely not kids clothes. I left the box in the hallway for a few days, unsure if I should open it. <i>What could be in there?</i> <i>What would I do with it?</i> It is not like me to mislabel something.<br />
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Nothing could have prepared me for what I found - the covers of nearly all of my school books and folders from High School - WHAT?! I had no idea I had saved them and shuddered when I thought of all the times that I had moved this box from house to house. What for?<br />
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This incidentally, brings me back to a quick point on decluttering. After reading many books and blogs on the subject I have been able to identify our clutter: <b>Memory Clutter</b> and <b>Just In Case Clutter</b>. This has been an amazing revelation and has made my decluttering so much easier. Also I have found that repeating the catch phase <b>"Would I take this if I was moving?" </b>Has been invaluable. The boxes for the thrift shop have been filling up fast.<br />
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There is no reason to keep something so useless, that is taking up valuable cupboard space.<br />
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The folders go! <br />
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But wait... I do love a good trip down memory lane... so I am grateful for the 'space saving' Internet and will share some of the folder covers here - with you.<br />
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You see, I have always been very fond of cut and paste.<br />
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I'll post up some more photos soon.monkeemoomoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00384928241028245857noreply@blogger.com62tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3760092482530657052.post-75938374529024003732014-06-20T17:59:00.000+10:002014-06-20T17:59:27.337+10:00Farm Dreaming <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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These photos were taken on my visit to my cousin's farm. I am missing her a lot right now and wishing, everyday, that I lived 5 minutes down the road.</div>
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Prompted, once again, by the arrival of the latest Country Style Magazine, I am reminiscing about my time spent in Orange earlier this year.<br />
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The Country Style's Producers Lunch at F.O.O.D Week, has been on my 'to do' list for a while. It was the only event that my cousin and I had pre-booked. In fact, this lunch was the reason for <a href="http://monkeemoomoo.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/food-week-our-way.html">my trip</a>.<br />
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I couldn't have dreamed of a better way to spend a rainy Thursday.<br />
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The perfect setting, the perfect weather, the perfect food! <i>Oh my - the food!</i><br />
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Complimentary <a href="http://winery.csu.edu.au/categories/buy-wine/letter-series-1.html">sparkling</a> and cups of warming, roasted, tomato soup greeted us on arrival. Figs picked from a nearby farm (the night before) were served with fresh mint and drizzled with <a href="http://www.asliceoforange.com.au/orange-mountain-caramelised-verjus-375ml.html">this</a> amazing caramelised verjus. It is true, that we ate a little too much of the <a href="http://www.trunkey.com.au/">Trunkey Creek pork belly </a>with zucchini relish. We wondered: <i> </i><br />
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<i>"Would we have any room left for our lunch?"</i>.<br />
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We chatted to the producers and did some more tasting, before moving in to the beautifully decorated hall. Lunch was amazing - <a href="http://www.mandagerycreek.com.au/">that venison</a> - WOW! Lunch was simple and light and fresh and very, very local.<i> </i><br />
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<i>"Seconds anyone?" </i><br />
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<i>"Yes please!</i>"<br />
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We enjoyed the wonderful company of wonderful strangers, and I loved listening to the producers talk. What an amazing community and how passionate they all are. I certainly have renewed respect for all small producers and farmers everywhere. <br />
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At the lunch, my cousin bought me <a href="http://www.local-lovely.com/p/recipes.html">Sophie's lovely book</a>. Each night, I would snuggle up in bed, when the rest of the house was asleep and read. I enjoyed reading more about the farmers I had either met, or heard speak at the Producers Lunch. I felt such a sense of community on this visit. Not only because of the Producers Lunch, but on hearing of how <a href="http://gooseberryjamman.blogspot.com.au/">my cousin</a> and her family, are settling into this close knit community of farmers and country folk. Even though I am from a small country town myself, my life was never lived on the land. I am in awe!<br />
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I cannot end this post before mentioning dessert.<br />
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THE BEST PLUM CROSTATA EVER!<br />
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Sadly, there were no seconds offered for this! Maybe they will serve that again next year... Because, yes, there will be a next year!<br />
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It has now been a little over a month, since I returned from my trip to <a href="http://monkeemoomoo.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/food-on-farm.html">Orange and F.O.O.D Week</a>, but, truly, it feels more like 6 months. This morning as I flipped through the latest Country Style Magazine over breakfast, I spotted an article on the Producers Lunch (that we attended) and thought it was about time I shared some of my photos with you.<br />
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Despite both, my cousin and I, printing out the F.O.O.D week program and highlighting, circling and dreaming of the events we wanted to attended, the reality was always going to be very different. My children had stayed in Queensland, but my cousin has her own children and household to look after.<br />
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We would do, what we could do.<br />
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We talked constantly about food: cooking, recipes, nostalgic food, cooking tips, growing food, seasonal food, old fashioned food, coffee, new food trends, wine, farmers, Queensland foods, cold climate foods, producers and on and on and on...<br />
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This is not unusual for us. However, this week it seemed totally OK to talk about food non-stop - after all - it was F.O.O.D Week!<br />
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With all of the kids dropped off at school and daycare, our first stop, on our first day, was <a href="http://byngstreet.com.au/">Byng Street.</a> A ham, avocado and brie baguette with coffee, was the perfect way to start our day and our week. Sitting in the courtyard, in the gorgeous morning sunshine, it was only our full schedule that got us up and on our way. Another time, we might sit there for hours.<br />
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These are the very last of the persimmons on Karen's tree at the farm. She had not picked them, so we could do it together when I had arrived. However, the birds had got there before me, and this was all that was left. I didn't get to eat any of the the ones ripening the on the kitchen window ledge either. They were gobbled up by quiet a different creature; a gorgeous 7 year old girl.<br />
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On the way to daycare drop off, my cousin stopped to give her two little girls a play in the park, but that was not the only reason for the stop. Medlars!<br />
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Being Queenslanders, this fruit is completely foreign to us both. However, between us we have been learning about it and had much discussion of medlars over the week I was there. Karen told me, you either love them or hate them. When we asked a local jam maker about them at the Producers Lunch, she through up her hands in disgust - she clearly hated them! Wouldn't even touch them.<br />
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<i>Oh my</i>, foraging for medlars, I felt like I was on an episode of <a href="http://www.rivercottage.net/">The River Cottage</a>.<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/fermenttheorangewinecentre">Ferment </a>had some very exciting things happening behind it's doors most nights, however, most nights, by 6pm, we were back on the farm, bathing and feeding the little ones. Next time. <br />
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On a rainy day, a country drive. With my cousin's littlest two girls in the back eating easter eggs. Sheep, old houses, cows, goats, deer, vineyards, tractors, orchards and rolling green hills. Gorgeous. I do love a country drive on a rainy day.</div>
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On my last day, while we were driving around touring the farm paddocks, my cousin's neighbour waved us over. She was ripping out her old tomatoes and "Did we want any?"<br />
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What an afternoon. Her vegetable patch was a dream, complete with ancient trees, a small orchard and a sweet chicken coop surrounded by old fashioned rose bushes. Beyond, by the house, there were more roses and rows of french lavender. With soft scents on the breeze and in dappled shade, we filled baskets and baskets of tomatoes - green and red - that were later eaten for our dinner.<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/theagresticgrocer?fref=ts">The Agrestic Grocer. </a>I love this place. We had a wonderful lunch here. Lazy and lingering. What a wonderful atmosphere and wonderful philosophy. I wish this was my corner shop.<br />
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Downtown in Summer Street to run errands, once done, a quick stop in the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Essential-Ingredient-Orange/713816998651316">Essential Ingredient </a>for my cookware fix. We were greeted with a champagne glass of elderflower cordial as we arrived and were sorry that we had just missed <a href="https://www.facebook.com/UnionBankWineBar/posts/662274290501550?stream_ref=10">Belinda Jeffery's</a> book signing. After making a mental list of my kitchenware must-haves we headed out to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/theagresticgrocer?fref=ts">The Agrestic Grocer</a> for lunch. It would soon be time to collect the children from school.<br />
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The night markets in Robertson Park were always going to be a bit 'iffy' for us.<br />
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We had been excited that the event had been cancelled on the previous Friday night, due to rain - it meant that we could go together. But by the time Friday came around we were a little over eating... really?...yes, it's true. We also knew, that six kids would be coming along with us. <br />
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A morning in Manildra. Ham and cheese toasties and coffee at the 'the shop' and an hour or so in this gorgeous old house/garage sale/bric brac shop. Purchases were made: some china teacups and some enamel for me and two chairs for my cousin. One chair, a ridiculously long early, Australian bench seat got jammed into the van. I love my cousins just-do-it-attitude.<br />
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Breakfast out at a favourite place and some lingering by the beach. Warm, clear, bright and blue. It had been forecast rain, <i>but no</i>, mother nature knows just what a mum needs on her special day. </div>
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A giry day. The first in a long time. A morning at the markets and an afternoon at the shops. Vintage aprons and a rabbit ring. Coffee and croissants, rugged up in scarves and jackets and later mango and strawberry sorbet in the beautiful autumn sunshine. A magical day in every way.</div>
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After I told Spunky Monkey he could not put a real tent up in his bedroom, he set to work, to make his own. While I made dinner, old drop sheets, trampoline poles and bits of wood (!) </div>
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However, due to a 'not-very-nice-person' leaving my mum without staff over her busiest time of the year, I have been working some odd hours to help her out. So Easter Sunday lunch was postponed a week, to yesterday.<br />
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Since every child in our street, has their own cubbie house in my backyard, yes, it's like a cubbie village! (I must take some pictures) We decided to move the lunch to mum's house. It made the most sense, as she lives on a gorgeous canal, a much better view than my backyard.<br />
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We kept up our <a href="http://monkeemoomoo.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/april-is-all-about-france.html">french theme</a> for the lunch. Mum had laid the table beautifully with a Provencal tablecloth she had bought on her travels and blousey blooms of white roses. <br />
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I had originally intended to make this a longer lunch, one of those long french lunches that stretch over several courses and many hours, one of those long french lunches where there is way too much food and way too much wine. I had imagined a lazy afternoon nap under an olive tree. But... back in the real world, and in Australia, three of us had to go to work last night, so we did what we could. <br />
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These roses on the table are reminding me of my time in <a href="http://monkeemoomoo.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/food-on-farm.html">Orange</a>, I still have heaps of pictures of F.O.O.D Week to share. Maybe tomorrow? I have a few days off work and while I do have floors to clean and about 7 loads of washing to fold, lets get our priorities right! </div>
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Ever since my son could read, he has been staring at two boxes on a high shelf in our garage labelled: DADDY'S TRAIN SET. <br />
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For reasons I could not, and never will understand, Mr Moo, would not get it down and let him look at them. <i>Really?</i> This was torture for my boy. But on Easter Sunday, I could stand it no more and intervened.<br />
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"He is nine years old, not three!"<br />
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So the boxes came down...and were spread out over two tables. I have never seen my son so excited. In fact, he it was like he was someone else, so in his element, so grown up and knowledgeable. Explaining to me all about the different types of trains, what was older and why. Hours of hours of pure joy.<br />
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I don't understand it.<br />
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My children have been playing with <i>my toys</i> and reading <i>my childhood books</i> since they were born. Nothing gives me greater pleasure than to see them enjoying the exact same things that I loved a a child.<br />
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So what if one or two of my stuffed animals have needed mending, it was no bother. As I sat and stitched a split bottom or torn ear, I felt nothing but love. I would remember my own fond memories of that particular toy and smile. Thirty-five years on, and a favourite toy had been a comfort for my own children. This is a good thing.<br />
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My daughter's favourite doll is my Wendy doll. The very same Wendy doll, that lay in her wooden dolls bed, next to mine, from the age of five. It doesn't matter that her hair is bit wild and that one eye is little dodgy or that when our little cousins came to play, her leg fell off. Miss Moo Moo loves her just the same.<br />
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When I was about 8 or 9, I was desperate for a Rainbow Bright doll. I was told "no". I was just short of the amount to buy her with my birthday money. So one day, when my mum was still at work and I was suppose to be at my cousin's house, I took $5 from 'the jar' and rode my bike downtown to the toy store. I was scared to death the whole way. I was scared, because I had never ridden my bike downtown before, in fact, I had never been downtown, by myself before. All the while, I knew that what I was doing; was very wrong. It was an old fashioned toy store, with dark narrow aisles and purple scratchy carpet. The toys were lined up on shelves that reached the ceiling, I had to stand on tip-toes to get Rainbow Bright down. I nervously took her to the counter and handed over my money, in small bills and coins, with shaking hands.<br />
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I hid Rainbow Bright in my room for a days before telling the truth to my parents. I got into a lot of trouble and I never did anything like that ever again. <i>I looooved that doll</i>. I took her everywhere with me for years and years to come. When I was I little older I started making clothes for her, as her original dress had become threadbare. Miss Moo Moo loves that story and has loved Rainbow Bright just as much as me. She has played with, and slept with, Rainbow Bright for nearly as many years as I. It was only recently that she has been 'shelved'. She is about to lose her head and I am stumped as to how to fix it. But every now and again I find her up and about, enjoying company with my girl. <br />
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Traditionally fish (seafood) for Good Friday. Eggs in the salad, naturally. </div>
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Old-fashioned Easter Ducks, like the kind I got when I was a child. </div>
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Chocolate cake and morning tea with friends. Easter egg hunting.</div>
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Hot cross bun baking and a bunny book (well, a white hare really) - How did the Easter Bunny know that we were <a href="http://monkeemoomoo.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/april-is-all-about-france.html">learning about France</a> this month!?</div>
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Some things did not go to plan, but... the Easter Bunny <i>came</i> and he/she brought <i>chocolate</i> and <i>gifts</i>. The kids were happy and that is all that really matters.</div>
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I have just spent a wonderful week at my cousin's farm. <br />
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I went (all alone!) to attend some of the <a href="http://www.orangefoodweek.com.au/">F.O.O.D week </a>events. This is something that I have wanted to do for a long time and with my favourite person living on F.O.O.D week's doorstep, it seemed like the perfect time to go. It was a great excuse for us to catch up and have some quality time together.<br />
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Local food and wine, farm tours, real* autumn weather, country drives, bric brac and wonderful new discoveries - <i>together</i> - that ticks all the boxes for a perfect week. But, hang on, these are not pictures of F.O.O.D week. This what we ate on the farm. These are photos of our last lunch together.<br />
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An antipasto platter and red wine.<br />
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Homemade feta, blue cheese, olive hommus, tomato and basil from the neighbours garden, marinated olives, artichokes, rocket, salami - hot and mild, brie, crackers, homemade <a href="http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/7728/plumbrillo">plumbrillo</a> (made from the bountiful plum tree during summer) and figs from the farm.<br />
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But wait there's more... we definitely did a lot of eating this week.<br />
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We ate Karen's famous tandoori chicken pizza with mango, coriander and yoghurt dressing and the best-ever homemade sausage rolls. The last of the homegrown walnuts and persimmons were tasted, along with, out-of-this-world stewed apricots and tangy homemade yoghurt. Too many of my cold weather favourites - ham and cheese toasties were eaten (both at the farm and out) and too many cappuccinos were consumed (both at the farm and out). I loved eating Karen's homemade fig and vanilla jam on toast for breakfast, so good, that two jars of it came home with me.<br />
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Maybe, we didn't need to leave the farm at all.<br />
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<i>*In Queensland we do not get what I call 'real' autumn weather, we don't get the four seasons. Autumn is my favourite season, but I did not get to experience it for myself, until I was 22 and moved to England. Now, I miss autumn and the seasons. Every. Single. Day.</i><br />
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I woke this morning to find Spunky Monkey playing with his remote control cars - in the rain! </div>
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And Miss Moo Moo snuggled up in Spunky Monkey's bed watching <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079588/">The Muppet Movie</a>.<br />
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I knew that it would be a very long time before I would be jetting off to any far away destinations. So, I thought, that when they are old enough, I would do something like this: Each month we could learn about another country. About other cultures: the people, the food, the landscape. We would cook regional specialities in our very own kitchen and maybe even learn a few foreign words. You get the idea.</div>
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We have started a special "Countries Around the World" notebook and have been cutting and pasting and colouring and writing.<br />
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Miss Moo Moo is really into it (she loves to learn) She has been grabbing her book at random and writing away, like this above. When I
explained to her that the French words aren't written how they sound in
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spelling of the words in French. She has even written out a 'procedure'
for making wine. <i>Tres mignon!</i><br />
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The coffee table has been piled high with French themed library books and dvd's. <br />
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Last Monday night, I helped out at my Mum's restaurant, she was hosting a 50th birthday party for a French friend, it was a weird coincidence.<br />
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We have started watching<a href="http://au.tv.yahoo.com/plus7/my-france-with-manu/"> 'My France with Manu'</a>, already eaten way to many croissants,</div>
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and watched Monte Carlo more than four times! I secretly love this movie.<br />
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Drawing, colouring and looking at foreign coins. Gossip and french cookbooks. Playing with Nanny's dolls house furniture and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1596786/">'American Pickers'</a> for my boy. A new hair colour for me, brown, not grey.</div>
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Dark and moody, wild wind and tiny drops of rain. Sticks and logs and foam and baby jellyfish, upon the shoreline. Fishermen. Usually my most favourite kind of beach day... however on this day, Spunky Monkey discovered a needle syringe on the edge of the dunes. On the edge of the dunes, where he and Miss Moo Moo play, where all the children play, where mum's and dad's and grandma's and grandad's sit to rest </div>
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Miss Moo Moo - ready for the annual Easter Hat Parade. <br />
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Spunky Monkey - laying on his unmade bed with a mouthful of cheese and vegemite sandwich. I had been chasing this boy around all week trying to get just one photo!<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(a portrait of my children, once a week, every week in 2014 inspired by <a href="http://practisingsimplicity.com/">Jodi's 52 Project</a>) </span></i></div>
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We spent a lovely weekend visiting my Dad in Hervey Bay. Our days were spent with family and friends, new and old. The weather was magic, our time unhurried. Lazy breakfasts and dinner and lunch out. Ice-creams and sunshine, sand between our toes. Long walks and antique shops.<br />
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A rainy Sunday, a cancelled boat trip on the river, the perfect afternoon for baking <a href="http://www.marthastewart.com/966161/ideal-sugar-cookies">cookies</a>.</div>
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Watercolours, acrylics, playdough, clay, cardboard crafts, paper crafts, cardboard box crafts, sticky tape, staples, glue, string, rubber bands, textas, highlighters, ribbons and fabric scraps. This week has been all about making. One of the best ways I know to while away the hours.</div>
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A cool day, a damp day. <b> </b><br />
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Spunky Monkey's school excursion to the rainforest.<br />
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A relaxing day, an informative day, a tiring day.<br />
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A leech, a snake, a slug and a brief sighting of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pademelon">pademelon</a>.<br />
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Bird song.<br />
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