Some festive family fun! Click to view

Well, most of my readers probably already know the news, but I think it’s time to make it official.
We are moving back to Sydney! In January. I have decided to try and achieve a dream to go to medical school. Unfortunately Wellington does not have a medical school, so the options were either Auckland or […]

Sorry about that little three weeks of unavailability. I’m not sure what happened, but I upgraded WordPress to version 2.3.1 and that seems to have fixed it. Hurray for WordPress!
I have been VERY VERY busy as usual - in Sydney for five days, then back into tons of work and also doing a lot of […]

Upon leaving kindy:
“Mummy, that teacher is not a very good singer.”
Upon getting in the car:
“Can we listen to Uncle Sam’s song that starts with the beautiful fairy music?”
Upon being put in his room for time out (as heard through the door):
“What will I do if she opens the door? I will kill her! But then […]

Yesterday Archie walked in the door from school, put Prince on the stereo and then sat at the kitchen table to read “Habitat” magazine. He is a rather unusual six year old! He discovered an old Prince compilation of mine and it’s currently his favourite. It is pleasant after the unending rounds of Bob the […]

In case you missed it, the new Phoenix Foundation album, featuring my hirsute little brother Samuel Flynn Scott, is now in the shops. It’s called “Happy Ending” and I reckon it’s their best one yet! In another family connection, my brother Jake Walker did the album artwork which is very very groovy, and nice to […]

The tooth fairy has visited our house for the first time! Archie has lost one of his bottom canines. It was wobbly for a while and then it popped out - no doubt with a little help from Jan who was obsessed with wiggling it. It seems rather freaky that all his teeth are going […]

See if you can spot another family member too!
Good on you guys, great video, and particularly nice DeLorean, who owns that car?

Aside from my feelings about school holidays as a parent, it is interesting how much of a difference they make to the Wellington vibe. At university today, there were kids in the cafe, and in the hallways. And sitting here in my little shoebox of an office, I am frequently hearing kids’ voices echoing up […]

Had a most excellent time at Mighty Mighty last night attending the Cook Strait Social Club gig. Barry Saunders and Julia Deans both did amazing solo sets. Julia has such an incredible voice, it was bloody lovely to listen to. And of course the Samuel Flynn Scott set astounded and impressed! Believe it or not, […]