Before Hamish (henceforth known as BH), I swore I’d never turn my blog into a place where I recounted his every move from first smile to poop stories that are humourous only to his parents. Well after 8 weeks I have come to the realisation that I need some sort of creative outlet or I [...]

I have learned an awful lot from my son these last 5 weeks. (Still feels odd to call someone “my son”…) Unfortunately I don’t know if these learnings are transferable to another baby, if they are relevant only to boys, or specific only to Hamish: Do not trust a quiet baby on a change table. [...]

This past Christmas, Duncan and I made the trip back to Canada. I was there for a total of a month, and Duncan for the last 2 weeks. This was the first time that we had all been together as a family for Christmas since 2003 – even before Sam, Katy, Brooke and Autumn were [...]

Friday, @urbanfoodmarket tweeted that he was conducting a blind tasting of grass-fed wagyu beef at his offices. They had three cuts – scotch fillet, sirloin and rump. He asked the twitterverse what we thought the ranking of each cut was. I replied with 1. rump, 2. sirloin and 3. scotch fillet – and I was [...]

We probably chose the next-to-worst possible day to go peak at sculpture by the sea. We went the final Saturday – on a glorious sunny day. The worst was actually the Sunday – the last and an even glorious-er day. Though we had to fight the crowds at certain narrow bits of the walk, we [...]

And even if you are immediate family, you can be forgiven in not finding this post all that interesting. Mozza Ball in 2D Mozza Ball in 3D Me Week 12 (excuse the clothes – Sunday is clean-the-house day Week 13 Week 14 – can you see the difference? I can!

Last September we went in halves with Sue and J in the purchase of half a Prime Angus Steer. (Which we are still enjoying.) Since then, ordering another half has proven difficult, as has locating equally well raised pork and lamb of any quantity. Enter Feather and Bone. All of their meat is organic and/or [...]

Do you know what this is a photo of? No? Not even a guess? It’s bird poop. Bird poop in our house, on our hardwood floor. Now this is not just inside our patio door. The bird had to come through the door, through the family room, skirt the kitchen, through the dining room and [...]

In our marriage, Duncan is the one who maintains the garden. He allows me to have my patch in the front yard – but the only edibles in it are the hard-to-kill rosemary tree and grows-like-a-weed mint. In all else, Duncan reigns supreme. We have a square foot garden at the front (which is probably [...]

Can one ever have too much basil? Trust me. One can. We have two types of basil at the moment – your regular garden variety + Greek basil (more “bite”y and potent). The Greek basil started as a little cutting from our friends Patto and Jess. It has grown into a veritable tree. The garden [...]