The journey of the days and weeks deep and then deeper again into the winter season feels like a deliberate grinding down. A forcible slowing, as primal as hibernation. It starts on the first morning you realise you’re getting up in the dark, and that night blankets the streets outside before the kitchen fires up…
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Happy Friday, friends. Oh and an extra big welcome if you’re visiting for the first time from Pip Lincolne’s blog Meet Me at Mikes. How awesome is Pip! Sending big love and thanks her way for sending YOU my way. I’m a Melbourne-dwelling mother of two, a journalist, an author, and a big fan of…
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I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine: There sleeps Titania sometime of the night, Lull’d in these flowers with dances and delight. ~ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2.1.255-60) Have you ever wondered what…
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In 1800 BC, Babylon was the biggest city in the world. Queen Sobekneferu of Egypt died, heralding the start of the 13th and 14th Dynasties. In India, the Iron Age got underway. And on the western slope of what is now known as the Sierra Nevadas in California, USA, a sequoia seed germinated in a…
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I’m hankering for some time spent in nature of late. Hearing the wind in the trees, splashing through puddles, growing things and eating them. All those cliches. Winter isn’t exactly the best of times to decide to get back to nature, but it’s still rather nice to dream, don’t you think? 1. The Kombi tent…
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Have you heard of urban foraging? According to this guy from the Pop Up Patch in Melbourne, it’s completely legal to pick fruit off of your neighbours’ trees, if it is hanging over the fence. Take a look. Laneway Foraging from The Little Veggie Patch Co on Vimeo. I’m not sure if I could do…
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Sometimes you don’t realise how desperately you need a weekend outside of the city until the ocean air is in your lungs, dense forest canopy shades your face, and your mobile phone is useless. We are just back from three days of hiking in the bushland surrounding the Great Ocean Road as part of a…
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The jasmine tumbling over the fence in our back courtyard filled the entire house with fragrance today, as the big, yellow sun pressed perfumed oil from every petal. Summer gave a cheeky grin. “I’m almost here,” it whispered. “I’m just around the corner.” And for once I smiled back. So I strapped on the sling,…
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Living in the city is a trade-off. Small home, great food, high rent, arts and entertainment, rotten traffic, shorter commute, smog in summer, walkable everywhere. And so on. For me, that trade-off is worth it. And I absolutely love where I live now, because our little community is very old, very gentle and very quiet,…
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(This print by Laura Ruth on Etsy) Last October, this glorious video of a murmuration of starlings over a river in Ireland went viral. I missed it, what with our overseas holiday and my somewhat surprising pregnancy (and subsequent morning sickness). So just in case your attention was elsewhere, too, I’m sharing it here. Murmuration from…
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“It is astounding how little the ordinary person notices butterflies.” Vladimir Nabokov I think you would have to be pretty extraordinary not to notice these Monarch butterflies, just arrived in Mexico after migrating from Canada for the winter. The butterflies don’t live long enough to repeat the journey, yet they arrive each year in the…
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A gardener came today to cut back the vines beside our house (yes, we have the best landlords in the world). While working, he inadvertently exposed this sweet little mama. She refused to budge from her post, even with all the noise, and blades whirring millimetres from her nest. Luckily, little mama bird and her…
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