After a final blast of wet weather last month, I think it’s quite safe to say that spring has finally sprung . We celebrated the new season the first weekend with a relaxed, chilled-out family BBQ at King’s Park. After we had our fill of sausages, we took a slow, leisurely stroll along the familiar stretch of the park looking down on the iconic view of Perth city. I think it was probably the first time we were looking down on that iconic view together as a family. We pointed out various landmarks and marveled over the beauty of our home city together. It felt really special sharing that moment as a family. I came across this quote which really sums up everything I felt so well about that moment… A mother discovers with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children; But because of the friendship formed while raising them.” — Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez . We recently finished reading both books in Enid Blyton’s ‘The Wishing Chair’ series....

We’ve been having lots of really wet days last month. Not your usual light drizzle. But full on stormy, pouring down with rain kind of weather. Too wet to play outside. Too stormy to go out anywhere. For a moment I wished I could wave a magic wand to make all the clouds disappear and bring out the sunshine and blue skies. Do you remember Mary Poppins? I absolutely loved watching that movie as a child (and still do). I remember one of my favourite scenes was when the children (and Bert) held hands with Mary Poppins and they magically jumped inside a picture and went off to have some funny little adventure there. How wonderful would it be if I could have some magical fairy godmother to whisk me away to some place else exotic and beautiful and WARM… perhaps to Bali or The Maldives. Summer in New York or Paris or London. Maybe Santorini or Nice. Even Singapore or my hometown KK… Anywhere but this miserable, cold, wet winter in Perth. I am just so DONE with winter here. Please be OV...