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Tales From Trenna’s Kitchen

By Greg

This post has a connection to the Menu Diaries series.  If you aren’t familiar with the series, a good place to start would be HERE.
Some of the items and practices I discuss here are mentioned in the series of posts in which I explain some of the mechanisms Trenna used to cope with her Marfan’s Syndrome. That series starts here.

Introduction

As I have explained a few times, meals and their preparation were central to Trenna’s … Read the rest ... “Tales From Trenna’s Kitchen”

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1990s Darwin Featured Household Tips Snippets and Vignettes

The Green Salad Sandwich Maker, and Other Darwin Stories

By Greg

Introduction

I think Trenna’s Darwin letters to my parents convey a lot of the colour and light of our two year stay at the top of Australia. If you haven’t caught up with them I suggest you start them HERE.

There were a few stories from that period that weren’t covered by Trenna’s letters, so I thought I’d cobble together a bunch of them in this post.

Decision to Go

We moved to Darwin so that I could … Read the rest ... “The Green Salad Sandwich Maker, and Other Darwin Stories”

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2010s Household Tips Snippets and Vignettes Visually Impaired

A Rug for Jack and Jade

by Trenna and Greg

To fully understand this post you are going to need to access the iPad document I have embedded above.

You won’t need to know much about crocheting, and you don’t need to read the whole document, provided you scan through the lot.

So what am I talking about?

Well. Some time, probably in September 2014 Trenna and I received the wonderful news that one of our 9 nieces was pregnant – congratulations again Jade.

Trenna decided … Read the rest ... “A Rug for Jack and Jade”