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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've always loved food and I've always eaten well, often too well. Without wanting to dig too deeply into the psychology and conditioning behind how I eat and why I eat, I'm aware that in recent months I've gotten very lazy about feeding myself. I've reached far too often for packaged convenience and, while eternally trying to shovel wholesome goodness into my children's mouths, far too often I've settled for peanut butter toast late at night for my own dinner. <a href="http://typicallyred.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/big-and-fat.html">Old habits die hard</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But at the start of this year, I promised myself I'd address the old energy issue. I'm tired of dragging myself out of bed in the morning, counting down the minutes till the first coffee, scraping my way through the afternoon, and then hitting my stride sometime mid-evening and thus ending up in bed far too late, only to wake up and do it all over again. I'm tired of being tired.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I'm better at making massive changes than gradual ones, so I decided I needed a big jolt, a big wake-up, something to strip me back to basics. So I've just come off a three-week elimination diet. It was fairly extreme - no sugar, wheat (or grains of any kind), fat or dairy for three weeks. No alcohol. <a href="http://typicallyred.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/bread.html">No bread</a>. None. At. All. I got through it, much lighter and clearer as a result.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It wasn't necessarily difficult, but it was boring. I was on a culinary desert island where I found myself fantasising long and hard about food. I rediscovered my cookbooks (and added to my collection as well.) I found myself drawn to blogs about real food and whole food. I toyed with previously unconsidered notions such as gluten-free and sugar-free. I lay in bed at night creating incredible meals in my head.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And now I've begun the part where I introduce foods back in. There's still no sugar and wheat, for the time being. I'm crossing my fingers and hoping this process doesn't reveal any sort of gluten intolerance. I know I have to cut back on the bread and the baked goods, but I can't stomach the thought of never enjoying them again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But what I'm really excited about is something that's becoming clearer every day in my mind - an approach to food and eating, a philosophy, if you will, that I want to apply to how I feed myself and my girls. I hope to share more here in the coming weeks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This past Saturday I travelled an hour up the highway to buy an organic chicken straight from the woman who raised it. Yesterday, the girls and I enjoyed it with roasted sweet potatoes, parsnips and beetroot. I made a delicious side of sautéed black cabbage and kale (bought direct from a woman who described herself as a kale specialist). The girls wouldn't touch that, so the leftovers went into a frittata for my lunch today. This afternoon I picked the chicken carcass clean then boiled up the bones for stock. I used a little of it to make a sauce with carrots, peas, a little creme fraiche and the leftover meat, which Pearl and I wrapped in pastry and called a pie. The girls devoured it, Lola declared it the best dinner ever, and then they insisted I pack the leftovers in their lunch boxes for tomorrow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Winner, winner, organic chicken dinner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Once upon a time, long, long ago, I blogged about knitting. Truth be told, it was the knitting that got me into the blogging. My return to the needles in my late 20s saw me seeking out new techniques online, which is how I discovered the knitting blog, which led me to the sewing blog, the mummy blog, the any-kind-you-will blog. And eventually I was inspired to start my own blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So the knitting did beget the blog, and the blog, in turn, did beget the knitting. I knitted for the love of it, and to feed the growing obsession with yarns and patterns and the finish line. I knitted to clothe and warm other people's babies, and then my own babies, and, ever so occasionally, and far less successfully, me. The blog, meanwhile, was the impetus to keep going, to record, to show off, to share.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And then the blog led me to selling my knitting. And it was wonderful and grand and all things good. But all other knitting ceased. My children grew out of the last of my handknits and nothing has replaced them. No cardigans, no jumpers, no core-warming vests, no funny stripy leg warmers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My Lola started kindergarten last year and I couldn't bring myself to dress her in the standard issue acrylic V-neck. While she wore through a few fleecy hoodies, I got my hands on some superwash wool and found a pattern. Winter arrived, and left, and still she wore the hoodies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This year I was determined to get it done. My hands weren't used to knitting on smaller needles. I wasn't used to reading an actual pattern. I worked at it in bursts, between the hats. I relaxed as we languished in a long, not-very-cold autumn. But when winter hit good and proper, I knew I had to finish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My big girl, no longer a kindergartener, but a first-grader with a gappy smile and an obsession with books, finally has a handknit cardigan to keep her warm in the schoolyard. Now, back to the hats...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Pattern: <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/grannys-favourite">Granny's Favourite</a> by Georgie Hallam</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ravelry notes <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/projects/typicallyred/grannys-favourite">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;">She wasn't very unwell, but there was just enough snot to warrant a day home from preschool. As she settled on the couch with a blankie around her shoulders and everything she needed within reach, I headed out into the rain to pick some lemons from </span><a href="http://typicallyred.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/a-funny-little-house.html" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;">that tree</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's the same simple recipe my mum made for me when I had the sniffles. The juice from one lemon, strained. A teaspoon of honey. Boiling water poured over. The whole thing stirred to dissolve the honey, and left to cool just enough for a four-year-old taking full advantage of a runny nose, a rainy day and a mum who needed a day on the couch as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My food processor's been on the blink for over a year. It used to make my pastry for me. Lately, I've had to do it myself. I've rubbed butter into flour with my very own fingers. Dripped in the water, just enough to make the dough come together. I've kneaded it, but not too much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Rest it in the fridge. Roll it out. Drape it across the tin then gently push it in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's become one of my very favourite things to do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When I get the food processor fixed, if I do, I'll let it make pesto. Almond meal. Fish cakes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But I might keep the pasty making just for me.</span></div>
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Greerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00463206542148286066noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2253042092936498909.post-22404595386180925632014-04-06T20:01:00.000+10:002014-04-06T20:01:34.872+10:00Courage/Fear<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The word 'courage' was one I clung to. Whether or not I actually had any of the stuff, and whatever the hell I was going to do with it if I could find some, seemed almost irrelevant. I just kept invoking the actual word. When I needed to make difficult phone calls, or have difficult conversations, or even think difficult thoughts, if I started to get muddied down in fear or denial or resistance, I'd remember that word 'courage' and I'd be able to go through with whatever it was that needed doing. What is it they say about courage not being the absence of fear, but rather action in the face of fear? I'm not sure. I do know I was bloody terrified. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Last week I came across a Brene Brown quote that caught my eye. In it she defines courage as: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Is that courage? I'm not sure. But I know that all of those things are incredibly important for an authentic life, and they're all things I'd like to master. I'm useless at number 1, but these days much, much better at number 4. Numbers 2 and 3 fill me with equal parts terror and exhilaration and I wonder if they might just be the meaning of and solution to everything. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A few weeks ago, <a href="http://www.practisingsimplicity.com/">Jodi</a> interviewed me for the <a href="http://www.wholeheartedjournal.com/2014/04/heart-to-heart-greer-worsley.html">Heart to Heart series</a> over at <a href="http://wholeheartedjournal.com/">Wholehearted</a>. The chat (via Facebook) was delightful and easy and entirely enjoyable. But then the fear about it being out in the world set in. It's one thing to want to speak your truth, another to do it in earshot of other human beings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On Friday, when the interview appeared on the site, I was overwhelmed with the response. Such beautiful, loving, generous, supportive comments and emails and messages, from people who've known me my whole life, people who only know me via my blog and also complete strangers (who know a bit more about me now).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Number 5 - reaching out for support. I can honestly say, during this tumultuous past year, I've not needed to reach out. In my beautiful family, in this little village community, amongst my dear friends across the country, and here in this incredible online world, it feels as though the support has come to me. How lucky am I. And thank you so, so much from the bottom of my heart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I must have driven past the funny little house a dozen times, which did nothing to improve its appearance. It had been on the market for a long time. The photos online gave nothing away. I kept thinking I should call the agent and book an inspection, but I didn't ever get around to it. A friend who had seen it described it as 'awful', so I let myself let it go. And then one day I felt compelled to look online again, and there was a date and a time. So I went.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was dirty, dull, uninspiring. It smelled dusty, and of stale cigarettes. Every wall was a different shade of grotty beige, but for the glossy pink in the main bedroom. The shower screen was cracked, the grout in the tiles black.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And then I stepped outside, avoiding the monstrosity of the falling-down garage, averting my eyes from the cobwebs on the eaves, the lichen on the deck, the curious angle of the rickety fence. And my eyes fell on a tree in the middle of the yard. Surrounded by unkempt lawn, a few other straggly shrubs, there it was - a beautiful healthy lemon tree, bursting with ripe fruit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I wandered some more, trying to see past the grime and imagine it all with fresh paint, furniture, laughter and good cooking smells. I imagined chickens poking about between the raised vegetable beds, an apple tree, rambling roses and creeping jasmine. I saw friends sharing delicious food on the back deck, enjoying the rare warm evenings of late summer. I saw my girls deep in the throes of another tightly choreographed musical performance, fighting over who's turn it was to sing. Could it even be possible?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Over the following several weeks, I went looking for why it should be yes, when so much about it cried, "No!" It was tiny. It was ugly. The timing was all wrong. Other property wasn't yet sold. It was ugly. Things were entirely up in the air financially. Oh, the work it would require. A wombat lived under it. It was...ugly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I thought of the lemon tree in the backyard of my childhood home. Lemons remind me of my mum, who didn't mind a gin and tonic with a fresh slice. I thought about the funny little house, talked about it with family and friends. I made lists of pros and cons. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I listened out for the signs. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I did the research into money and legalities and potential termite invasions. I even pondered the street number and tried to determine if it was auspicious.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And every time I walked past the dusty rangehood, which I couldn't bring myself to wipe clean, I saw that question - "Yes?" And the universe, or whatever it was, kept throwing me positives. Without a huge amount of effort - as though it was meant to be - it became possible, and then it became real.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is the sort of thing I had in mind when we moved to the country. The overflowing backyard veggie patch has always been in the picture (yet to be realised) but I wanted to be near places we could visit to pick our own food. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;">There's something about an orchard that gets me all nostalgic. </span><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I spent a few years in my childhood living in a house in the middle of an apple orchard, and while the glasses have definitely taken on a rosy hue, I'm sure I'm not exaggerating when I say we spent our weekends running up and down the rows eating fruit straight from the tree. </span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Even though apples aren't uncommon in this area, and plenty of people seem to have a tree or two in their backyard, I hadn't been able to locate a proper pick-your-own farm.</span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then a friend told me last week about a place not far from here that was once run as an organic farm, and is now a meditation retreat. It's set on a beautiful patch of land alongside an enormous, neglected orchard with rows of apple trees of all different varieties. The fruit is falling from the trees and rotting on the ground - the birds are having a field day. </span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So armed with our inside knowledge, my littlest pair and some dear friends put on our gumboots, grabbed some baskets and set out. We were warned about wombat holes and rabbit warrens, then invited to help ourselves. The kids ran wild while my friend and I sampled the wares, grabbing a handful of the sweetest, a selection of the crispest, as we came across them. Every tree held a different fruit, none of them labelled. The prettiest often seemed the most lacking in </span></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">flavour. Ironically, after traipsing the length of several rows, I decided that my favourite had been the first one we'd tasted. Luckily we were able to find that tree again, and the basket was topped up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But back when I entered Year 2, back when 'teacher' was the answer I gave to every well-meaning adult who asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I took to school a set of handmade flashcards that I'd stayed up most of the previous night making. I had thought it through, you see, and I was going to teach my little sister and her kindergarten colleagues how to read. I think it lasted one lunchtime before they gave up on me and headed off to play chasies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. One evening last week, this was the scene taking place in our lounge room - a very grown-up six-year-old taking it upon herself to teach her little sisters the alphabet. And perhaps she has more of the teacher's spirit than me, because she turned it into a game, sending them off for an apple from the fruit bowl, a xylophone from the music basket, a plastic horse from a bedroom, to illustrate her lesson.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">They fight and argue with the best of them, these three, but it's these shiny bright moments of cooperation and care, the encouragement shown by a big sister, and the adoration of two little girls for one big girl, that lets me know we're doing OK.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">++ A very important birthday celebration. Four! My babies!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">++ Handmade gifts from lovely little people (whose mother allows glitter! Brave woman.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We're settling into the same old rhythm within these new walls. The work/school routine is keeping us busy. So much is so good right now. There's uncertainty, yes, but such possibility. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>{Thank you for your beautiful comments on <a href="http://typicallyred.blogspot.com.au/2014/02/afresh.html">this post</a>, and for welcoming me back with open arms. I don't know where I'll fit this blogging lark into my already overflowing days, but it means too much to me to let it go.}</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've been trying to climb back on it. There are so many reasons, some simple, some really quite profound. But mostly it's just time. In the several-times-a-day scuffle with priorities, it seems to have fallen in a great heap at the bottom of the enormous pile. Even lower than the washing, which is saying something (and which is also an enormous pile).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So while I try to work out the ropes and rigging (for the climbing back on, you know), I'll enjoy fresh sunflowers on a table in desperate need of oil. The table, which once sat pristine and unused in my grandparents' formal dining room, now graces the kitchen in my new home. MY NEW HOME! It's a tiny house that needs a lot of love, but has already been transformed, in the space of less than a month, by paint and scrubbing brushes, the incredible generosity of good friends, and the laughter, shouting and singing of my three gorgeous girls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm about 50 days late, but happy new year! Here's to fresh beginnings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After our <a href="http://typicallyred.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/christmas-pickings.html">little foraging trip</a>, we had a kilo of wild plums, tiny and more sour than sweet. I roasted them to soften them then pushed the pips out, one by one. I transferred the soupy flesh to a saucepan, added sugar, then watched it bubble and simmer until it was sticky and jammy. Then I poured it into scalding hot jars, left them to cool, then tied it all up with string.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A change in our living circumstances this year has meant we don't have a garden, at least not much of one to speak of. We have land, a huge expanse of vacant lawn, but lack of inspiration and the short-term rental thing means we haven't done anything out there. But</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> we live at the end of a little dirt lane, one that I meander down regularly. And a recent wander revealed a bounty of produce. So one evening last week, my babes and I went a-foraging to see what we could see.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When we returned, we had a big bucket of wild plums, a posy of pretty weeds, apple branches that we twisted together with some mysterious berried shrub to form our Christmas wreath (and the tiny apples looked quite festive, too, in a glass bowl) and a bunch of spiky holly. It brightened up our 'for now but not forever' home beautifully. All in all, a festive foraging success.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Oh, and Merry Christmas! I hope yesterday was fun and messy and noisy and a just little bit excessive - it certainly was for us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I was digging around for my Christmas spirit. I knew I'd left it somewhere. After the year we've had, the loss, the massive change, I wasn't sure where it could be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And then, in the space of 24 hours, we hit up a local carol evening, and sang and danced in the rain. We drove home via the crazy lit-up Griswold houses. We visited Santa for the obligatory half-thrilled, half-terrified photo. We travelled along beautiful country roads to pick out a tree and cut it down. And we chose a corner of our home in which to set it up and decorate it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And suddenly, there it was. Suddenly I was making pompom garlands and homemade gifts for teachers, downloading Bing Crosby and ordering ham. Every evening we turn on the lights and do a stocktake of the pressies underneath the tree. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">No, you can't open them yet. Yes, you have to wait till Christmas morning. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The party had a robot theme. I, being me, suggested we get into the swing of things and make some robot masks to wear. They, being them, decided we needed to add a touch of flair -</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> a bunny robot, a three-horned unicorn robot and a horse robot. Neigh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">They're crackers, all three of them. Gloriously, beautifully, relentlessly, seriously crackers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I had thought to begin this post with, "I was wandering through the house wondering if I'd ever blog again." Which led me to envision myself in something flowing, moving slowly, fingers draping absently along dust-free surfaces, deep in contemplation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But none of that ever happens, the flowing, the slowly, the draping. (The dust-free).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm here and I'm busy and I'm accepting it may never relent. I'm smiling more than I'm not. My girls are well and beautiful. It's November already. I'll find my way back to this space with time. I've been feeling its absence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We ate dumplings, rode roller-coasters, danced in the storm. We swam every day, several times a day, to escape the heat. We took a break from the normal, kicked back with aunties and cousins, let ourselves be looked after for a bit. My three little travellers handled the flights like champions. And we all want to go back tomorrow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Some months ago, an email arrived from a land far, far away, requesting I send a couple of my bonnets off for a potential photo shoot. They arrived just in the nick of time, and life rolled on, and I forgot about it. Then I heard word that the photos were going to make it into print. And today my copy of <a href="http://www.papier-mache.com.au/">Papier Mache magazine</a> arrived, within it a fantastic feature interview with one of my absolute favourites in this blog world, Flannery O'Kafka, alongside images from her incredible fashion shoot entitled 'When My Father Was At Sea'.* </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is all very exciting for a country mama who spends most evenings on the couch knitting in her jimjams.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">PS I'm going on holidays next week, so <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/typicallyred">the shop</a> will be closed for a couple of weeks from tomorrow. Stay tuned for some exciting new things when I return...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>* Bonnets aside, this woman (and her ridiculously beautiful family) is very cool and very inspiring. You should seek her out and read about her.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">:: My new Orla Kiely mugs, the perfect size for a homemade soy latte.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">:: An <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/AmeliaHerbertson?ref=pr_shop_more">Amelia Herbertson</a> lino print bought last year on a trip back to my home town.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">:: Raspberries, bought frozen, eaten as is and baked in everything.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I love her relentless requests to do "craft", to "investigate", to catch butterflies in the garden.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I love that she can suddenly ride a bike like an old pro, can suddenly read whole books on her own, will make up a song and stop whatever she's doing to write down the lyrics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I love that she suggests dinner on the lawn, then declares, "Well, isn't this pleasant," as we share our rice with the mozzies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I love her intensely choreographed dance routines, and that they're often to the songs from Broadway musicals. (And I love how far back in her head her eyes roll when I try out one of my routines on her...)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I love her gappy grin, her impossibly thick hair, her limbs that seem to stretch out longer and thinner every time she falls asleep.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I love that, given free rein in my fabric stash, she doesn't hesitate before selecting a lairy vintage sheet for her new summer dress (</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and that when she tries it on the first time, she says, "It's just like a ball gown!") </span><br />
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Greerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00463206542148286066noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2253042092936498909.post-61878562585611712502013-09-22T19:55:00.001+10:002013-09-22T20:11:22.400+10:00Sunday Lovelies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Greerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00463206542148286066noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2253042092936498909.post-19222250867191799822013-09-17T21:55:00.002+10:002013-09-18T18:54:08.783+10:00A Perfect Meal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1) Speck. This is not bacon, or at least not as you know it. I got tired of boring sliced supermarket bacon, rubbery and flaccid and flavourless. I purchase speck as a big piece which means I can slice it to my desired thickness (oh, about a centimetre) and then into lardons. Sauteed in olive oil, those little morsels become crisp and juicy and terribly flavoursome. In the past I've used speck in wintery soups and stews, but more recently I'm sizzling it up in all sorts of exciting ways.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2) Silver beet. I never loved this vegetable. It was terribly green and terribly earthy. The stems were chewy. I didn't know what to do with it. But a few years ago I jumped on the cavolo nero bandwagon, and found I loved it steamed then sauteed with garlic. Last year I tried that same simple method on some market-bought silver beet and tables began to turn. The final twist was when I planted a few seedlings last spring. That stuff grew and grew, and when I'd finally picked it all, it grew back again. Silver beet had it's time in the sun and in my kitchen, and I've not looked back. I'm looking forward to having it on tap again this summer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">3) Eggs. Or rather, very recently laid neighbourhood eggs. My <a href="http://typicallyred.blogspot.com.au/2011/09/livestock.html">chicken dream</a> still hasn't come to fruition, but I've got the next best thing - friends with chickens. Every time I'm handed a carton of fresh-laid goodness, my heart skips a beat. And while most eggs find their way into cakes and tarts and Pearl's thrice weekly "mushy eggies", I save the very freshest for poaching. You can add your vinegar, swish your water, stand on one leg and whistle the national anthem all you like. All you actually need is a pan, simmering water, and the very freshest eggs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All of that thrown together gives you this meal, this perfect anytime, every time meal. It could be breakfast, brunch, lunch or dinner. It's just right for one, but could feed a crowd. It's simple food, which means it has to rely on the quality of its ingredients. And it's got enough green to be good for you, and enough other bits to feel like a treat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One of the things I miss most about having <a href="http://typicallyred.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/four-years.html">my mum</a> around is being able to ask her about when she was at the stage of her life that I'm at now - being a mother to small children. Gosh, how I'd love to sit her down now and have her answer a few questions. Like, were we (my siblings and I) ever this much of a handful? Were we this funny and delightful? Did we test every single boundary and push every single button?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Last night, I stumbled across a little card in a box of keepsakes. It was sent to my parents when I was born. It was probably one of only a handful - poor, deprived third children don't get as much attention as the first ones, don't I know!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Oh, how it made me laugh, that one small line: "Trust you are not too frazzled and have help - the third nearly killed me." Reassuring words from one mum to another. Proof that life and mothering was just as...challenging back in the mid-'70s as it is today.</span></div>
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