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a cup of tea with me

I have been following a great blog called Meet me at Mikes for a while now and recently the amazing lady behind the blog Pip Lincolne, held a course to learn more about blogging. I have to admit that I wasn’t the best student and it has taken me a while to get this blog up and running.  I will blame the busy ness of life in general for holding me back.

Anyway, my post today  is a little segment that Pip has organised for our class called “A cup of tea with me.”  So grab a cuppa (or wine/water) and learn a bit more about me.

1. Name, state and a bit about what you do on a daily basis:

My name is Alison or Ally to my friends, and mum/mumma to my kids and I live in NSW (just) on the border with Victoria.

Most of my days are spent looking after three little people and one big one. My eldest is a very busy 6 year old boy, who asks at least one thousand questions a day, loves sport and has crazy ideas about inventing things when he is older. My first daughter is nearly 5 and loves to draw, cut paper, use stickytape, paint, dance and sing, so basically the creative one. And lucky and definitely last is the next little miss who is 20 months and literally a jumping bean/climber/stuntwoman and is sending me grey. The big one that I look after is a very busy husband who works crazy hours, has a mind exploding with ideas and who loves me and his children.

On the odd days that I am not busy with them, I am a nurse and at uni part time.

2. Favourite things to do:

I think the politically correct thing to say is that my favourite thing to do is to being a mum which is obvious but on the days when I need time out, my favourite thing would be a tie between having a 4 hour pamper session or sitting in a restaurant/pub overlooking the ocean with great friends, great food and a nice wine.

3. Favourite place to be:

As above or at home as I really am a home body. I would like it even more if I could get around to doing some serious decluttering.

4. Favourite things to eat/drink:

To eat, it would probably be my homemade Sticky Date pudding with vanilla ice cream. My favourite drink would be a nice Pinot Grigio or a glass of cold water.

5. Favourite inspirations:

Most of my inspiration comes from creative people, which is why I seem to spend so much time reading blogs and getting ideas about new things to try out.  My other inspiration in life is Nelson Mandela who I first starting learning about as a teenager when I spent a year living in South Africa as Rotary exchange student in 1990, which just so happened to be the year he was released from prison.

6. Something I want to know more about:

Photography, craft and how to raise children! I would love to be able to take awesome photos all of the time. I really want to learn how to crochet well and how to use my Silhouette Cameo properly. And raising children…well !

7. Some favourite blogs:

There are way too many blogs that I love but the tops ones would be (in no particular order)

So that is me in a nut shell. Thanks for taking the time to read this and I hope you enjoyed your cup of tea.

A x