Keep calm and carry on

It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Lest you think I got attacked by the birds congregating around Munchkin’s home-made feeder, let me assure you I am alive and well. Well…. not that well, but alive. I’ve been a little busy, you see. Got caught up in a major national news story, and it’s been kind [...]

How to make a bird feeder Munchkin-style

1. Acquire a plastic gallon container of milk, drain it, burp very very loudly, and get your mum/dad/parental guardian to wash it out.           2. Get your mum/dad/parental guardian to cut a hole where the handle is, leaving a suitable lip at the bottom for holding bird food.     (Ooh, [...]

The Doors (but not in a sexy Jim Morrison sorta way)

My DIY-ADD tendences are surfacing again. Here is my email conversation this week with Ms Fix-It. She: What would you like to accomplish this week? Me: oh Gosh, dunno. I do need to think about the office (still to paint, hopefully will do that by Thurs) but would love to tile the shower room as [...]

Happy New Year…. sort of

On New Year’s Day 2012 I found myself doing two unexpected things. The first was pushing a stolen supermarket trolley up and down a street in Phoenix. The second was driving a 10-foot truck down the Highway to Tucson. You may surmise that Hubby and I suddenly found ourselves homeless, and that I was recruited [...]

“The worst Christmas ever”

This was Sweetpea’s declaration last night as she pulled the bed covers over her head and dug down deep, refusing to come up for air. It hadn’t started off badly. Well, the 6am wakeup was none too pleasant, I admit, but Hubby and I put on brave parental smiles and tried to be jolly. It [...]