Another Day - a collection of thoughts, happenings, dreams and inspirations

In a little cottage on the side of a hill in Southern Tasmania is where the song of this story is sung. Once a place where sheep grazed, this home is now a retreat for pademelons, bandicoots, echidnas, and our family. Originally from the East Coast of New South Wales we traded hectic highways for a calmer, more meaningful pace of life.
I'm Elke and together with my husband Graham - we strive to live conscious, grounded and joyful lives as we share the privilege of walking along a parenting path with our two precious children; Chilli and Marlin.

Favourite city treats for second breakfast today Chai latte and almond croissant from @salamanca_cream
Ever since I’ve been watching Hallmark movies I’ve wanted one of these glass cake pedestals with a dome lid to display baked treats in - because every feel-good Hallmark movie seems to have a happy baker who has one of these on their counter! However good ones are normally horrendously expensive and so I just looked longingly at them as I walked through the tableware areas of department stores - until yesterday, when I happened to notice this precious and totally perfect one, on sale @minimaxbyhabitat for half price! Now of course I need to bake lots of pretties to
Marlin’s been working hard this morning on finishing this jigsaw as part of his current @oakmeadowschool #oakmeadow1 Geography studies, learning about The World along with global; climates, cultures, plants and animals progress snaps, videos and a cheeky monkey trick in our current stories/grade one highlight on profile
“Nowadays they called it King’s Bridge.” What a brilliant story of how the city at the centre of the Kingsbridge trilogy came to be. Despite my grammatical irks with Follett’s writing style that I’ve been bothered by in this book I’ve thoroughly enjoyed his brilliant story telling once again. He has such a talent at creating captivating stories. This one has been shocking, heartbreaking, horrific and tragic. It’s had true love and joy woven into it, but similar to ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’, it’s been just enough to give you breathing space from the darkness, ensuring you have the strength
Today at Bushschool the children made boats out of natural materials, then put them to the ultimate test to see if their creations floated! It was so lovely watching the different ideas each child had and how they went about creatively using the materials they chose. Marlin made several small, simple raft style pieces that were all successful, but his most impressive creation was this Viking Longship - complete with floral; people, shields and figure head! He was of course overjoyed when it passed the seaworthy test! (photo 2)
Marlin’s recent Social Studies lessons have continued that ‘stepping out into the world’ work with looking at the region, state and country he lives in. Alongside this we looked at what is iconic about our local area, and as luck would have it - Andrew Smith of @williesmithsappleshed came to speak with the children at the @missarahglover Campfire Cooking Workshop, about the apple growing history of the Huon Valley. This week Marlin has been busy with adding to his year long project that displays these learnings about the world and where he lives within it. So far he’s added pieces
Nancy Blackett, Captain of the Amazon pirate ship ‍☠️ #bookweek2020
This read is a smorgasbord of Korean cuisine inspiration I’m googling lots of recipes already and I’m only a few chapters in!
Today’s been one of ‘those’ days with the 13 year old! All I wanted today was to have my traditional Sunday morning wake up coffee, danish and book reading time - but the chaos started before we’d even managed to get the water heated ‍♀️ I wasn’t giving up on my one-day-of-the-week morning me-time (‘cause I’m selfish like that!) but it did take until midday if you can believe it! I’d like to say the day got better but unfortunately it didn’t Thank goodness for the encouragement of songs like ‘The sun’ll come out tomorrow, you just gotta hang on
Pre-dinner drinks Fairy lemonade w. lychees :: magical colour-changing violet-syrup recipe from @fareisle blog
Signs you were a Graphic Designer in a past life :: You mount ten-frames for your child’s homeschooling maths onto foam core board with a 20mm border all around
Happy Monday friends Wishing you all a week filled with the same kind of joy that comes from reading the final 817th page of brilliant Follett storytelling, in another incredible instalment to this collection It’s definitely not for the faint-hearted, but if you’re a fan of the Kingsbridge series - you will definitely be impressed by this latest addition to the story that we’ve all grown to know and love so well through the years ☺️