Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
Last year, my husband and I went to a talk about parenting twins, given by a child psychologist, himself an identical twin. One of the tips that stuck in my mind was that he advised making two birthday cakes and singing “Happy Birthday” twice. Back then, this seemed like a concern for the far distant [...]
One of the best things about summer in Australia is the fruit, especially mangoes! My babies think so too – they’ll do just about anything for mango. You can see my daughter here sucking on a mango seed and looking pretty happy with life. Any time I eat a mango near either of the babies, [...]
It took a lot of effort to get to Canberra for the weekend but it was worth the trip. We stayed with my husband’s aunt and the babies got to hang out in her gorgeous backyard, which had ripe, red berries in the strawberry patch and gorgeous white peonies in the flower beds and fresh [...]
Now that the babies are nine months old and becoming more sociable and independent, I am able to turn my mind to my freelance journalism career once again. I have negotiated with my husband so that I can have some time mid week to work and if things work out, we may end up hiring [...]
For most of my Camera Craft II course at the Australian Centre for Photography, we studied the rules of photography – exposure, tonal range, colour theory, composition, and so on. For one of my previous assignments, I played with shadow profiles in black-and-white photography. But in the final week, our assignment was to break the [...]
I feel absolutely shattered tonight, having just returned from a trip to Canberra with my husband and the babies. We went to help celebrate my husband’s aunt’s 70th birthday and to catch up with her and various cousins. I’m glad we went – we all had a good time, especially introducing the twins to their [...]
I’ve been playing around with tonal range in black and white for my photography course. We get the morning sun now that our windows are fixed – and that makes for some nice silhouettes on the glossy white cupboard doors. I had fun taking these photos! This is day five of NaBloPoMo. I will be posting [...]
We skipped town for most of August and September because of renovations on our apartment. We have spent most of that time visiting my family in Queensland – staying a week at my cousin’s place in Brisbane, 10 days at her family’s holiday house in Noosa and a week apiece with two different aunts near [...]
Sunday was Mother’s Day in Australia and my first one as a mother. My twins were born exactly three months earlier. They are obviously very advanced babies because they brought me breakfast in bed – scrambled eggs on toast with coffee – and gave me money to treat myself to a massage. Clever babies! Being [...]
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