Inspired by this post at Gender Focus, which is in turn inspired by this post at xoJane.
- Chickens all lined up in a row along the fence, enjoying a dust bath, next to the dog (their stand-in rooster)
- My four-year-old’s original and eccentric clothing combinations, and the way she dances because she feels so beautiful
- The return of Mad Men, and the ability for us here in Australia to download it very soon after it’s aired in America, in which case I get to read all the commentary!
- Having a dream, then waking up and realising it would make a great story. Working on said story inside my head, regardless of whether I’ll get around to writing it.
- Picking up feathers on walks with the four-year-old, who asks when we get home if I can ‘turn them into a bird’. (Because I am a SUPERMUM.)
- Seeing the fourth chicken come back at regular intervals, knowing that she wasn’t eaten by a fox after all. (Still a mystery where she goes.)
- Autumn weather in and around Canberra. AWESOME time of year, with beautiful colours on the trees.
- Rediscovering certain 90s TV shows which are otherwise too embarrassing to mention.
- An excellent bookclub book… for a change.
- Trimming the hedge, knowing I won’t have to do it again until next season.
- Rain and thunderstorms
- New Zealand has marriage equality! I’m from New Zealand! I feel proud!
- Here in Australia, reminding myself that the anti-gay, anti-woman, anti-Aboriginal bigot is not actually Prime Minister.
- Finishing a very big art project which I thought, at regular intervals, would never ever come to an end
- Watching an interview panel of Australian graphic novelists, learning that one and a half years on a single project is nothing compared to six.
- Spending time with friends at friend’s new house while kids make a ‘grass-clipping man’ outside
- Buying garlic in bulk, then peeling cloves with my daughter, squishing it up and storing it in the fridge in olive oil
- Realising I’m too late to do the same with sweet basil, because a chicken has beaten me to the pot and is now using it as a nest
- Letting a huntsman spider live on our ceiling because it cleans out the worse spiders
- Watching a brown and white, long-haired, slightly overweight Border collie run through very long grass, jumping high like an Olympian. Hearing my daughter giggle with delight because she’s only tall enough to see its ears.
- Delicious apples from the neighbour’s tree, and the smell of cloves throughout the house
- Realising that our house is the one that smells constantly like soup, which in turn reminds me of a line out of the film Juno, which I also love.
