On Grief (or “When Does This Ever Stop Hurting?”)
Left: my mum and I making cookies 1983. Right: keeping the tradition going with my girlie, 2012. So Caleb (my 8-year-old) came and saw my...
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Jenny Wynter Blog
Aug 17, 20121 min read
Needed: A Family Friendly Version of Couch Surfing
Just stumbled across this at my local library: 5 Ways to Carry A Goat, a tale of how an Aussie travel blogger embarked on a trek of the...
Jul 2, 20122 min read
Jen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Thank you once again to everybody who took the time and effort to give me some feedback on the blog. I’m so inspired, tremendously so...
Jun 19, 20124 min read
The Power and The Passion (of Pint-Sized People)
It’s Humphrey! This piece of awesomeness spotted at The Butterfly Club. I know I joke a lot onstage and off about how hard is is to raise...
May 30, 20125 min read
Finding Clarity Through Crisis (or “The Lump in my Breast and My Throat.”)
Found on Facebook. Original source unknown. Yesterday starts out like any other. I drop the kids at school, drop Cass to daycare, I kiss...
May 22, 20122 min read
A Postcard from Reality: Wish You Were Here!
Sunset over Bribie Island last weekend. The most FAQ in any interview I do – I love saying that as if it’s a regular occurrence (which it...
Apr 29, 20122 min read
Postcard from Destination Burn Out
My monkey. So apparently I’m the only one who’s surprised by my collapse, physical and emotional, this week. I feel stupid to have not...
Mar 20, 20122 min read
Adelaide Fringe Festival Tour Diary: THE END!
Barrio, a very bizarre, cool, surreal and rocking art party destination during the Fringe. I couldn't decide if I loved it or was just...
Mar 15, 20123 min read
Adelaide Tour Diary: Hahndorf, Toddler Tantrums & Standing Room Only
His royal highness, moments before the lightning struck. Yesterday we took the troops up to Hahndorf, a super cute German town just...
Mar 10, 20123 min read
Adelaide Fringe Festival Tour Diary: Approaching The Final Strait
Taking Mister 3 to the playground just pre-show, while my daughter and Keli, our fab au-pair, did Zumba! I just pretended that all...
Mar 7, 20122 min read
Adelaide Fringe Festival Tour Diary: A Personal Lifetime Highlight
Backstage before the show. Not much comedy in this post, but I just want to share it for what it is. Anybody who has seen “An Unexpected...
Mar 5, 20123 min read
Adelaide Fringe Festival Tour Diary: On Touring With Kids
My little mouse spotting a poster! I love how excited she is about the show, soooo cute (though she would hate me calling her "cute" in...
Feb 27, 20124 min read
Adelaide Fringe Festival Tour Diary: Improv, Sheer Loveliness, the Mayor of Salisbury and the Guilt/
Rockin out at the Fringe Caravan on the Mall Today was a little nuts, in theme with the rest of the festival itinerary thus far. I’m so...
Feb 24, 20124 min read
Adelaide Fringe Festival Tour Diary: “And So It Begins.”
Kids on a plane! AAAAGGGHHHH! If you’re one of these folks with an appetite for sympathetic glances from strangers, then might I...
Jan 30, 20122 min read
Our artsy attempt at a Family Purpose Statement
This vision you see before you is the result of a family bonding event gone this past weekend. Let me start by being honest: things can...
Jan 25, 20122 min read
Things To Do With Kids in Brisbane: Get Thee To The Abbey Museum!
My little girl in a low budget ad for stranger danger? WRONG, silly! We're at the Abbey Museum! Oh YOU! Though my grandma always tells me...
Jan 16, 20121 min read
Dawn French on Being Apart From Her Daughter
I have had to stop writing here to have a little self-indulgent weep, as I allow the significance of your easy forgiveness for my...
Dec 8, 20112 min read
Things to Do With Kids in Brisbane: Get Thee and Thy Brood to GOMA!
Mmmm. Colour. Sugar. In an effort to be at least mildly useful in this here life, I’m gonna occasionally be posting some stuff about, as...
Dec 1, 20112 min read
2011: MY YEAR IN REVIEW
After a beyond crapola 2010, complete with car accidents, toddlers breaking legs and husbands being hospitalised, I was ready for a...
Nov 16, 20111 min read
I Don’t Know How She Does It: A Review. (Or: “Meh.”)
Image courtesy of Hollywood Blurbs. I wasn’t expecting a whole lot from this movie, namely cos I’d already read a lot of bad about it....
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