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Six Months. 44 Years.
Mum had her first stroke six months ago tomorrow. She’s been between John hunter Hospital and the Rankin Park Rehab Centre since. We’re at the stage of looking for nursing home placements. First reluctantly now more urgently. Mum’s waiting on the manual wheelchair from Enable NSW that the OT scripted as she can no longer walk, and she needs hoisting into that and two people to support her for…
Frog Ponds Rock
Remembering Kim Foale Ahh the Golden days of mummy blogging – or whatever it was us peripherical misfit non-mummy bloggers were doing at the times. Whatever it was it really was about the friends we made along the way, and one of them was Kim of Frog Ponds Rock, kinda a mummy figure to many of us, Mum to Veronica, and one of the first middle aged women I knew diagnosed with Autism (Think she was…
WelfareMaxxing this Budget
So, it’s Federal Budget Day, and while the government tried to ease us into their cutting of the NDIS and there being little offered directly to the poorest to help their situation, there’s a few little interesting nuggets that tell you a lot about the government of the day. One is the news that the Feds will give payments of about $6000 to community housing providers for each person on Youth…
Budget asks and existential dread
Feeling a bit like Tweek from the 2016 South Park where President Garrison is threatening North Korea and cupcakes don’t solve the problem but I’m here making cupcakes (or muffins or whatever I throw together) feeding myself, feeding others and just trying to get through the days and weeks. So, the Treasurer says the budget isn’t finalised, while preparing the ground for cuts to the NDIS, while…
It's just a lot
It’s just a lot. The change in seasons, times. Everything going on in the world, existential dread, needing to keep going with everything in the meantime, needing to keep daily habits. Taking meds, making and eating meals. Looking out for others. Looking out for myself. Trying not to take on what’s not mine to stress about. At least not too much. Hit a few walls lately. Trying to reset by going…
We are saved we have banana muffins
I rarely make cakes or banana bread, and generally make muffins since they’re easier to judge if they’re cooked, already portioned and yeah, just easier. Today I made Banana Muffins since I got a lot of bananas free yesterday. I was going to put some coconut in, but I couldn’t find a hammer, so that can wait for another time. I didn’t really use a recipe or fixed portions, but they have 3…
When all you have is a hammer...
the unemployment will continue until morale improves — Antipoverty Centre (@antipovertycentre.org) 2026-03-17T03:52:52.112Z Obviously not an economist, but I can’t see how pushing up the amount people with home loans have to allocate to that, while petrol is also up, isn’t just gonna lead to a severe drop in spending. Food prices and prices on other goods are also still going to keep going up…
Indexation is not an increase, especially if we're looking at petrol and other hikes due to war
Indexation amounts were released last week, and I’ll personally be getting $10.25 more a week in my DSP and rent assistance. See all the details in the tables here. Pensions from March 20 Rent assistance amounts from March 20 As always, they start accumulating from March 20, so no one sees the full increase pain into their account until at least April, and not til mid-April for some. Standard…
It's all about timing
In the featured image for this post you will see Maxi looking pleased with himself because he got to tag along for a 2km drive to the end of the road with his head hanging out the window, past the cows in paddocks and the construction for the new twin servos off the M1, to get petrol before the prices jumped on Tuesday with the news about conflict continuing in the Middle East. Obviously, Maxi…
4 weeks
Mum had her stroke four weeks ago yesterday. It’s been up and down – for her and the rest of us. She should be moving to the rehab hospital today, if all goes according to plan, which is rarely does but hopefully this time. I think she’ll be happier and more optimistic there and hopefully that will help my father start looking ahead and the rest of us can start planning what the next steps are…
Corollin' along
Spending a lot of time in my little Corolla at the moment. Mum had a second brain bleed on the weekend and so while a lot has settled back to a routine since then, we’re all a bit more on edge and really wanting things to keep steady and on the path to rehab for her. I’m taking today away from the hospital, stocked up on snacks and hope to be rested to head back in tomorrow (I will regardless, I…
A Lack of Best Laid Plans
Fortunately my plans for this year were to focus on family and home, because mum had a stroke Wednesday morning last week and fortunately I don’t have to renege on any commitments because I haven’t made any. My weekly food posts were already out the window – the Friday before that I had a big day when pest controller who was visiting the work site next door slipped and injured himself on a star…
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Two More Years (for Eraring Power Station)
Eraring power station in the distance and a housing estate being built in the foreground Eraring power station has always been a part of my life. Construction started in 1977 and it and I were unleashed on the world in 1982. It was announced this week they were going to again extend its life another two years, this time until 2029. Transitions are well under way and it’s surely becoming more and…
What we ate last week - Week 3 2026
Started last week with some jeans / cookie monster blue cupcakes. I don’t know what I was aiming for, but obviously used way too much blue. Last week was about running down the meat in the freezer and I think we did well. Rissoles is ALWAYS a good fallback. And I did booked enough for two nights, but they got eaten up for lunches so I had to do something else for Tuesday night. As I was getting…
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What we ate last week - Week 2 2026
So last week I got a Marley Spoon box after they gave me a good discount – think it was under $80 total for the 6 meals. So Monday we started with a prawn pasta – I switched out the tinned cherry tomatoes for two punnets of cherry tomatoes I’d gotten free the Friday before and can use the tin down the track. It’s topped with panko crumbs toasted up with garlic and olive oil – part of the…
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What we ate last week - Week 1 2026
Welcome to what we ate last week, a series of blog posts I’m intending to write every Monday in 2026 to document our meals, how I cobble together a healthish menu for three adults from meal kits for two, Aldi runs, food bank discount purchases and food rescue freebies and my lil brain. It’s to rekindle my food blogger ways, reassure myself I can do this, and give me a goal that’s focused on…
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Hello 2026
Hello 2026, and everyone coming into it with me. Sadly some people were left behind last year, some were also cut off and I’m just going to have to run with that. Fortunately I still have all my favourites around the place – IRL and on this interweb, with few going by the wayside with the SM age restrictions, even if we’ve lost DMs – if you ever want to contact me come here and find my contact…
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