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Jenny Wynter Blog
Aug 26, 20072 min read
A blog entry of immense practicality
A repost of an e-mail conversation today between me and Girl Clumsy – partly cos I’m always forgetting to address the damn obvious on...
Aug 24, 20072 min read
When I die, I wanna end up in Banff
I think today has been one of the most magical of my entire life. And considering that my 21st was an ‘Enchanted Forest’ theme, complete...
Aug 24, 20071 min read
And the downside of travelling with kids…
…they wake up at midnight, demand breakfast and then spend the next three hours jumping on the bed spilling rice cakes everywhere. Plus...
Aug 23, 20072 min read
The upside of travelling with kids
Damn, people can be friendly when they see you travelling with human baggage. From the Qantas check-in guy who re-seated Ella and I to a...
Aug 20, 20071 min read
Off we go!
After months of planning, scrimping and saving our buttocks off (how I wish this would transfer into real life buttocks-losing…but that’s...
Aug 18, 20071 min read
3 more sleeps!
We’ve gone from Poo Central to Whoopie City! Clearly the prospect of our long-awaited overseas adventure is making me delirious. Anyway,...
Aug 16, 20071 min read
Rename the Comic Mummy blog!
Okay folks, I’ve been racking my brain for ages (seriously, the minutes have hit double digits) trying to find a fabulous new name for...
Aug 14, 20072 min read
A week today and we’re off!
I’m hesitant to even put that in writing, so regular have become the hiccups in our plans of late – I feel like the dude on The Simpsons…...
Aug 13, 20071 min read
My daughter on comedy
Her: “Mummy, how come when I try to make you laugh sometimes, you don’t laugh?” Me: “Well Ella, my job is to make people laugh and you...
Aug 12, 20071 min read
Live birthday blogging update!
Anyone familiar with my birthday cake track record will understand my need to gloat here in cyberspace. I now consider myself justified...
Aug 12, 20071 min read
5 Years Ago Today…
…just as Dylan whatever-his-name-is was being evicted from the Celebrity Big Brother house, so too was my little house-mate being evicted...
Aug 10, 20071 min read
Thoughts following a talking-to from she-who-cannot-be-named
…why is it, that the man in the house can leave for work before the kids are even up and return only an hour before they go to bed, and...
Aug 9, 20071 min read
The Tooth Fairy Visits: the Sequel
This kid is gonna send me broke.
Aug 7, 20071 min read
Pollyanna is back in da house!
Firstly, Mum’s results are back and it’s not cancer!!!!!! Woot!* Turns out it’s a rare blood disorder, it’s still not good as such, but...
Aug 2, 20071 min read
Sorry folks…
…but I’m seriously over writing negative blog entries. My nickname has always been ‘Pollyanna’ and I don’t like it when my attitude...
Aug 1, 20071 min read
Upon discovering I shall be flying Qantas…
Mum’s wise words to me this morning: “You get onto them! Before you hop on the plane, ask them right then and there, ‘now has this plane...
Jul 31, 20071 min read
I dreamed a dream
No doubt inspired by a very saddening episode of Australian Story last night, I was rocked by disturbing dreams all night that my Mum had...
Jul 30, 20072 min read
Forecast: brighter and still Canadian
New week, new outlook. After last week’s corker of fevers, cancelled Canada plans and chest x-rays, I’m happy to report that I’ve had a...
Jul 26, 20071 min read
Just when I think life has run out of punches to throw at us…
…it finds more. But I’m sick and tired of writing whingey blogs, so I’m gonna leave it at that for today. Let’s change the subject. How...
Jul 25, 20071 min read
Waaaaaahhhh.
Last night I was supposed to be on my flight to a new exciting chapter of life! Instead I was in *drumroll please* the emergency room of...
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