| Title | Date Published | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| silver, scarf, soup, screencasts, spacey | June 22, 2013 | I am in a better mood today (in comparison to yesterday’s post). After a yummy scrummy breakfast at Saskia’s I bought myself a little present. Why? Because we all deserve presents for being awesome and it’s perfectly acceptable to buy them for yourself. It’s been at least six weeks since I added to […] |
| Sunday in photos | June 9, 2013 | That’s right everyone. I have spent the day at my desk. This is my view. |
| The Weight | June 7, 2013 | Here is one of my all time favourite songs from one of my all time favourite TV programs. Enjoy. |
| flounces | April 7, 2013 | I have spent the afternoon battling with French seams (and giving up because they did my head in) and flounces. In the end it all worked out okay. This was first attempt at this pattern and as has become my habit I made it in a cheap material in case I totally faffed it up. […] |
| Christmas Countdown: the Steve Martin version | December 6, 2012 | Well this is the kind of nice surprise that youtube can provide. I love Steve Martin. |
| Thinking and writing about reading and stuff | February 18, 2012 | As a lecturer at a regional university in Queensland who spends her days teaching academic writing in a preparatory program I am delighted that 2012 has been declared the National Year of Reading because it draws attention to the absolute importance of the skills of both reading and writing. The challenges facing Australia in terms […] |
| It’s the circle of 5ths | October 25, 2011 | It’s always amazing when you have a breakthrough moment with a student. This happened for me yesterday afternoon while giving a piano lesson to my newest student – an adult who recently completed her Grade 8 practical exam. We were working through some theory when she asked what seemed like a very basic question. How […] |
| A large piece of toenail | September 15, 2011 | Yesterday afternoon I made my 15 minute journey to Innes Park as usual to do an afternoon of piano teaching. The five sisters and their good friend were all delightful as always. This week I was treated to the sight of a broken toenail…and then as a follow up…I got to see the large piece […] |
| Fighting fish and fern | September 10, 2011 | My parents and my sister have left town for a week for a little holiday. Before they left they gave me the contents of their fridge (lamingtons,shallots, a leek, pumpkin, tomatoes, capscium, spinach, a single potato, cherry tomatoes, avocado) as well as my sister’s fighting fish and my mother’s maidenhair fern to look after. The […] |
| Guinea pig and frog | September 7, 2011 | One might imagine that an afternoon of piano teaching would be about teaching the piano. One would be mistaken. It’s that of course but lots lots more. For instance, take today. It was the usual Wednesday afternoon line up. We began with a brother and sister team who have their lessons one after the other […] |