Place: oma and opa’s farm

Poison: coffee

Favourite things: hot coconut macaroons and the tease of country op shops after lunch.

After escaping the city last night post an eventful working week, we settled into some farmstyle love.

Kym’s oma and opa have been married 60 years and have lived here on this farm for so many years of it.

We ate hot biscuits for morning tea and I just had to ask for the recipe.

1 cup of coconut

1/2 cup sugar

1 tablespoon cornflour

1 egg

Pinch of salt

1 teaspoon vanilla

Combine coconut, sugar and cornflour in bowl. Beat together egg, salt and vanilla, stir into dry ingrediants, mix well. Place heaped teaspoonfuls of mixture onto greased and lightly cornfloured oven trays, press mixture lightly into peaked shapes. Bake for 15 mins, remove and loosen. Oven at 180, make sure it’s hot before bikkies go in.

Ahhhh, what farmer wants a wife? I’m ready to hightale it to the bush.

Amps

Place: In Bed

Poison: Samboy chips

Favourite Things: My nephew Jackson

I have been feeling the post Easter slump, over these last few days, so I went and spent an evening with my family. Nothing beats a five year olds laugh, late in the night, as his Aunty (me) reads him a bedtime story…

Ahh, the romance of it all.

Speaking of romance, a great friend of mine Gaylene, affectionately called GT, emailed the most unusual of requests to me yesterday and I just had to post on it.

Creatively, funding a love affair, Im in!!

Read about it all here and buy the fabulous clothing range they have designed for the occasion.  You’ll see me wearing one of these tee’s sometime soon.

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Keep love alive, check out these frustone’s…

A

Place: home

Poison: cappucino

Favourite Things: tracky pants

This morning I made a date, I went to my local cafe and had a 45 minute catch up on the phone, with the lovely Hayley.

I have many friends who live so far away and it’s so easy for our lives to just move apart, getting stuck in the everyday. Yet intentionality is the safeguard for entropy.

I made an appointment and grabbed my phone, ordered poached eggs on toast and you would have thought Hayley was sitting opposite me in my mt Claremont haunt…

If your season changes and your friend travel afar, do everything you can in this frantic world to be intentional about your catch ups.

Our green tea cup club over the last couple of years had allowed the craziness of the week to crowd out our regular catch ups. So this year we planned the year out and intentionalised our catch ups, so we are able to stay connected.

Intentionalise your friendships, it will rock your world.

A

Place: lounge room

Poison: chewies

Favourite things: lavender essential oil…

It’s been such a great day off, but…

I’m bored!

It’s not very often that that sentance escapes my mouth, but it’s true. I’m very very very very bored.

I have had a bath, contemplated cooking, text a few friends, read my latest book from the library, snacked on random happenings in the fridge.

Still boredom haunts me.

I have come out of a super crazy season and put myself on a 6 month travel fast. I am determined to find health and happiness in the random everyday occurances.

Am I addicted to adrenaline? Maybe… Am I addicted to inspiration and drama? Possibly…

What is the line between achievement and restfulness? What is the boundary that deliniates driveness and contentment?

Boredom has the capacity to annoy or restore… My choice today is restoration, to ponder the space of boredom, to think, create and conspire with no real goal or achievement.

The consumerism of our day has created a guilt complex amoungst the people, resulting in the inability to rest and recreate.

Boredom is not necessarily a bad thing…

I hope…

A

Place: lounge room

Poison: chocolate

Favourite things: Corina

Today as I was driving, I was getting so frustrated with the traffic and it was a Saturday!

Traffic can be so intense, with unexpected frustrations and inconviences.

One way I have created a sensory distraction in my car, is a big pot of a really strong smelling hand cream. When I am stuck in traffic or at some lights I rub this cream on my hands and remind myself that this time in the car is actually a privilege.

So many others would do anything just to be in a car net alone own it!

Find a way to distract yourself or remind yourself of the priveleges we take for granted.

Something as simple as a strong smell has the ability to create new memories that remind us every time we smell them of it’s predecessor.

A beautiful hand cream can become your new best friend.

Divine driving frustrations…

A