Author Archives: Tanya

A pleasant weekend…

Posted on 02/08/2009 by Tanya

Most of it was pleasant anyway, poor Bagheera kept me up most of Saturday night – turns out she has ear mites, no wonder she wasn’t happy. She has now spent the majority of Sunday passed out on Tamsyn’s bed. … Continue reading →

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Giveaway…

Posted on 02/05/2009 by Tanya

Two cats (3 years/3 months) – tabbys, oodles of personality, okay one might have a slight brain malfunction every now and then – but the other one’s cuteness makes up for it tenfold. Guaranteed to give you hours of fun … Continue reading →

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Close to freaking out…

Posted on 02/02/2009 by Tanya

Anyone that scrapbooks is hyper aware of using acid free paper, acid free glues, making sure the photographs don’t come into contact with anything that might contain acid. So when you discover that something – which I might add only … Continue reading →

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Three down, six to go…

Posted on 02/02/2009 by Tanya

(As an aside, my in-laws gently chided [aka full on nagged] me for shirking my blog responsibilities – so I thought I’d best put finger to keyboard and write something. The fact that they already know everything I’m about to write is … Continue reading →

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Why, oh why…

Posted on 01/27/2009 by Tanya

Does the morning have to come so early? My typical morning goes something like this…. become aware of the birds twittering and tweeting outside my window (more like a cacophony of screeches and squaawls), five minutes later… the cell phone … Continue reading →

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Back to school…

Posted on 01/22/2009 by Tanya

Well the first day of school has come and gone and apart from a few hiccups all would seem reasonably well in the land of new schools. Jessica seems to be taking to high school like a duck to water … Continue reading →

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I now know why cats get nine lives

Posted on 01/16/2009 by Tanya

Although I suspect our two cats need about 149 lives. Jessica has been away since Wednesday evening at a guide camp and so Bagheera has been sleeping in our room. Picture it – one very small cat sleeping at the … Continue reading →

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Nagging works!!

Posted on 01/15/2009 by Tanya

Not that I nag…much. My one goal this holiday was to get my scrapbook room sorted and after some gentle hinting, ingenious clues, loquacious comments and whispered pleas in the dead of night I got my much anticipated shelves. Originally … Continue reading →

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The clash of the Titans…

Posted on 01/13/2009 by Tanya

Meet Sophie Bagheera, having had her for a few days it was obvious that Sophie wasn’t going to cut it. We needed a name with heaps of potential, a name that would symbolise great things to come, a name that … Continue reading →

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It isn’t true….

Posted on 01/13/2009 by Tanya

I have cooked two recipes from The *Bloody* Book and the last one was an unmitigated disaster. Not only did I injure myself (apparently slicing parts of one’s finger off isn’t part of the recipe) but the mince for the … Continue reading →

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