I'd like to think that people who knew me would say that I am relatively smart.  But they might also say I am trusting and try to avoid ...

For the first time in my life I now have an ensuite. It's pretty fabulous when it comes to showering late at night, because it means I...

Hindsight, what a marvellous invention. I can't turn back the clock on my own renovations, but if anyone out there is mad enough to be...

Can you hear that? That is the sound of a vacuum being run over the floorboards in my new upstairs extension. That is the sound of being s...

Despite my harried  rantings last year about my writing life being over before it started due to mix ups with daycare days, all has been so...

And so they have finished for the year.  Tools have been laid down, the skip emptied. The scaffolding has come partly down and removed offsi...

Good evening.  I am here to humbly accept the award for most prolific writer.  When I first started this blogging gig, I sometimes worried I...

There is more than a grain of truth to the saying 'time flies when you are having fun' and even more in the saying [which I just inv...

Last night I stood in my new bedroom.  Sure, it didn't have walls or a ceiling.  Or a bed.  But it actually looked like a room and felt ...

'So where exactly is your baby sleeping?', the nice builder man asked me.  We had a plan of the house in front of us, and I jabbed a...

I came home today and the roof had disappeared, replaced by billowing red and blue tarps, attached tentatively to my house by a few ropes. ...

I currently have two, half naked young men, liberally covered in tattoos lounging on my front verandah.  Some of you may think I am the luck...

It's the waiting that gets you.  The not knowing.  Today, allegedly, is the first full day of our new building project.  I say alleged...