Weekly Stills

1. I'm loving the pears at this time of year. I go to the local fruit shop and they all look so beautiful I can't decide so I take one or two of each type. Is it wrong to be besotted with pears? The shape? The colours, the juiciness, the taste...
2. Friends came down to visit from Queensland so we took them to the snow up on the top of Mt Baw Baw. It has been so long since I saw snow fall. None of us were precisely dressed appropriately - we got to the top and I realised we were all wearing docs. Our toes were cold. There will be a snow post coming up. With many, many photos.... I can't resist.
3. A mushroom we found on a walk. Lots of conversations with the kids about never ever eating mushrooms unless you buy them from a shop. Even amazing red fairy mushrooms...
4. The wonders of baking. Brownies and pears. Perfection.
5. A rose at the Morwell Centenary Rose Gardens. Ah roses.
6. My Sprocket in the long grass.
7. My Poppet in the rose gardens. (Not with a rose.)
8. The kids and my to-be-returned-pile. My beloved's equally high pile is on the far side of the room. We love our library! Do you have a library pile?
9. Uggs are essential in this cold! Poppet slipped off hers at the art gallery cafe. (Um. Yes. She was wearing Uggs in the art gallery. But they're so warm!)

I missed weekly stills last week, so there are some catch-ups. Joining with the  wonderful Em over at The Beetleshack for moments in the week.

24/52 & 25/52

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25/52

24/52

1. My Poppet keeping an eye on Peppa Pig, eating a lovely juicy pear in front of the fire. Now it's so cold we've been loving nightly fires. (And have taken to wandering the garden with an axe going... hmmm. Is that tree looking a bit dead? I feel very guilty as one of my favourite books this year has been about tree women... but it's cold!) Also note the fire screen... since moving here we've brought one from Bunnings... and the Sprocket shredded it in an afternoon. My mum got us another from Bunnings... and the Sprocket shredded it in an afternoon. Fail. I like the old stuff better than the new. My mum got this one from ebay, old and sturdy and so far still alive.

2. My Sprocket watching the ipad in front of the fire. Any day now we'll have another tv detox. Any day now. But not till after the kindy holidays...

25/52

1.  My Poppet found herself a leafy, grassy nest.

2. My Sprocket looking so grown up and serious. There have been a few deaths (none in our immediate family) around us, and my Sprocket has been worried about death and heaven all week. Hard concepts for all of us, and we've been giving him lots of cuddles and trying to reassure him.


My laptop is on her last legs (I sat on her... and that was after half her keys went 'misssing') and her memory is full, so uploading photos is a multi-computer and painful process. Last week... I just didn't get round to it. So here's the backlog!

Joining with the wonderful Jodi over at Che and Fidel for a portrait of my kids once a week. Even if some are a little delayed!