![I took Rhea, Lara and two of their friends to a Billie Eilish concert a few weeks ago. We all reflected on the experience. Isolde: What was surprising about […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Billie-Eilish-IMG_9668-640x250.jpg "Isolde and the Four")
![It’s been a painful couple of months physically, culminating in a day that saw me working from home last Monday. I started off working from bed at 9am and by […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG_9660-640x250.jpg "Bottom")
![Back home after a month away. It was a month of connecting with families – Steve’s at the family holiday house, and mine when Duncan, Becky and their little boys […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/IMG_9448-3-beach-621x250.jpg "Connections")
![Lara and Rhea went to their first live concert at the age of thirteen, but they don’t play any instruments themselves anymore. We organized for both of them to learn […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/IMG_7936-476x250.jpg "Not playing")
![I have been enjoying a couple of new podcasts recently. The first is called Read This, with interviews of writers, many of them Australian. The second is Wiser than Me […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/IMG_9245-640x250.jpg "Listening to them")
![Steve’s 60th was months in the making: his family and I took about 50 text messages to find a weekend that everyone was able to travel up and surprise him; […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/PHOTO-2024-09-01-21-41-07-640x250.jpg "Sixty")
![Before I start a six-month secondment, I’ve had a break from work for three-and-a-half weeks. I started with four days in Noosa enjoying the beach, restaurants, company of my parents, […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/IMG_9119-3-476x250.jpg "Winterlude")
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![My uncle Roger’s 40th birthday party was held at his brother, my uncle Malcolm’s rustic guesthouse on the Gippsland lakes forty years ago this month. I was eleven and dressed […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/thumbnail-5-379x250.jpeg "A milestone")
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My uncle Roger’s 40th birthday party was held at his brother, my uncle Malcolm’s rustic guesthouse on the Gippsland lakes forty years ago this month. I was eleven and dressed […]
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![It was pure coincidence that we arrived in Valencia in the second weekend of May during the preparations for, then the procession of, the Festival de la Virgen de los […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/P1040296-115x115.jpg "Religious Spain: Santiago de Compostela and Valencia")
Religious Spain: Santiago de Compostela and Valencia
Posted on October 17, 2010 | No CommentsIt was pure coincidence that we arrived in Valencia in the second weekend of May during the preparations for, then the procession of, the Festival de la Virgen de los […] -
![Our holiday started in March with a jetlagged 48 hours in Frankfurt and Madrid on the way to Casablanca in Morocco. It was interesting to stop in Frankfurt instead of […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/P1030018-115x115.jpg "Marvelous Morocco")
Marvelous Morocco
Posted on October 8, 2010 | No CommentsOur holiday started in March with a jetlagged 48 hours in Frankfurt and Madrid on the way to Casablanca in Morocco. It was interesting to stop in Frankfurt instead of […] -
![Monday, twelve thirty, Serviers (population about 200), Southern France. We were at the only restaurant in the village – the only commercial centre in the village too, there are no […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/P1030418-115x115.jpg "Lunch at Serviers")
Lunch at Serviers
Posted on October 5, 2010 | No CommentsMonday, twelve thirty, Serviers (population about 200), Southern France. We were at the only restaurant in the village – the only commercial centre in the village too, there are no […]