Pest Control

February 26, 2014 By in Family, Tasmania Tags: , , 27 Comments

macro photography spiders web

I was sitting outside with DorkySon the other day – eating a super tasty lunch from the TacoTaco van – when I felt something tickly on my neck. I glanced at the window beside me and could see quite clearly from the reflection that it was a BIG spider and if I wasn’t quick it was going to disappear down the back of my shirt.

*shudder*

I walked as calmly as I could across to a nearby group of three women, also sitting eating tacos, and said through quite a tight smile ‘Please could you flick that crawling thing off my back?’

All three of them looked up at me, widened their eyes, and screamed loudly.

Not very reassuring, ladies! Continue reading →

(Slightly late) Tuesday Treats

February 19, 2014 By in Blogging Tags: , , , 13 Comments

heart leaf

One of the things I found most frustrating during my time away from social media was not being able to share great content. I was still following all my favourite blogs on Bloglovin, but even when I read something I loved I wasn’t able to shout about it like I usually do.

What I did instead was favourite them all to share in this longer than usual edition of Tuesday Treats – the weekly roundup of top blog posts curated by me, Chris at Thinly Spread, Lizzie at Me and My Shadow, and Becky at Baby Budgeting. I hope you enjoy at least one or two of these, and I would love you to share some links to things you’ve read and loved recently in the comments below. Continue reading →

My month without social media

February 17, 2014 By in Blogging, Family Tags: , , , , 34 Comments

A Month without social media

*peers into the gloom*

Do I still have any readers after my month off? I hope so. I’ve missed you!

Giving up Facebook and Twitter for a month was surprisingly easy, but giving up DorkyMum was hard. I’ve filled half a notebook with scribblings that need to be turned into proper posts over the next few weeks, but I thought I would start with a few reflections on the four-week social media detox. Continue reading →

Project 52, Weeks 3 to 7

February 16, 2014 By in Photography, Tasmania Tags: , , , , 8 Comments

Hello! How are you all? I’m finally back online after my month off. I hope I didn’t miss anything too exciting…

I’ll hopefully be writing a post next week about what I did with my four weeks free of social media, but for starters I thought I’d catch up with Project 52. Here are my shots for Weeks 3 – 7.

Week 3 – Mango Sorbet

Mango sorbet

Continue reading →