One Woman and her Dog
Last year I became a dog owner for the very first time. I didn’t want to start my dog ownership journey with a puppy, so I adopted a five-month-old instead! She’s a rescue pup and knows what it’s like to be starved and mistreated. She has decided to give humans another chance and chose me…
More
My soon-to-be eighteen-month-old grandson has just learnt one of the most powerful words a toddler can arm themselves with – ‘more’. It’s the one and only time in his life that saying ‘more’ without structuring it into a polite sentence is acceptable – he’s too young to say ‘please can I have some more?’ And…
When Love Shines
As I reflect on this ill-tempered year that is screeching to the finishing line, the most joyous of days for me was my daughter’s long-awaited wedding. There was a delay – not a Covid one. Something far more exciting – a little-bundle-of-baby-boy delay. Born in early November last year, and just four months before his…
Waking the Wombat 