https://www.katrinanannestad.com/books daily 1.0 2026-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1455150903468-OJ3FFGZYPFXDEXN6MV5Z/image-asset.jpeg Books When Mischief Came to Town is now out in America. I'm very excited that it has been received with such warmth and enthusiasm and hope that Inge Maria continues to bring joy to many children and adults. Follow these links to see some early reviews: Kirkus: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/katrina-nannestad/when-mischief-came-to-town/ Publisher's Weekly: http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-544-53432-2 Common Sense Media: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/book-reviews/when-mischief-came-to-town#   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1516090935482-4JQ70QH2DBXNR8GOX2R4/Lottie+Movie+Star.jpg Books - Lottie Perkins, Movie Star (ABC/Harper Collins, 2018) ‘Lights! Camera! Action!’ That’s my cue. My name’s Charlotte but you can call me Lottie. I’m a movie star. At least, that’s my thing this week. Charlotte Perkins is seven years old and can’t wait to grow up – if only she could decide what she wanted to be! Luckily, no dream is too big for little Lottie Perkins! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1654831672910-QB8V5WRZFL9PXX606ZIA/Anxious+Artist.jpg Books - The Travelling Bookshop - Mim and the Anxious Artist (ABC/Harper Collins, 2022) Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy. Flossy leads them where she will, to the place where they're needed most ... the place where the perfect book will find its way home. Now Mim has arrived in elegant Paris where she meets Pierre, a talented but anxious artist who cannot bear to give up his paintings, even to sell them. He's miserable and poor. His customers are cross. Mim knows they're here to help Pierre. To calm him down. To turn him into a successful artist. To make him truly happy. If only Mim could find him the right book. If only Dad would stop getting muddled and giving everyone the wrong book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1516089455281-UYVMB13K2B99VTGGLZ34/Bungaloo+Creek.jpg Books - Bungaloo Creek (ABC, 2001) Just the other day a wombat came into the classroom. It was cute to see. it squashed three xylophones and dug a hole in the carpet. We all love wombats. Josie Simpson thinks Bungaloo Creek Public School is the best school in the world! Her teacher, Mr G, thinks the school is unique - whatever that means ... Bungaloo Creek is a hilarious glimpse into the world of a one-room bush school. Notable Book — 2002 CBCA Book of the Year Awards (Younger Readers) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1516088794242-8B7OBA9W0IRF5JSS3JAG/Packing+006.JPG Books - Red Dirt Diaries (ABC/Harper Collins, 2010) Blue Weston’s life is spiralling out of control. · Her parents are sending her to boarding school next year. · Her mad twin brothers are building pig chariots in the back shed. · Her best friend has been abducted by zombies and replaced with a boy crazy tween. · And then there’s the drought that’s showing no signs of ending soon … It’s New Year’s Day and Blue has resolved to keep a diary of the year’s events. It will be another hard year of dust storms and drought on her family’s farm – with the odd leech attack, rocket launch and bagpipe-loving pig thrown in just for fun. Shortlisted for the 2011 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards Shortlisted for the 2012 West Australian Young Readers’ Book Award https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1516087733201-BYKEHAGRR30U825RR3TQ/Mischief+Cover.png Books - The Girl Who Brought Mischief (ABC/Harper Collins, 2013) When Inge Maria arrives on the tiny island of Bornholm in Denmark to live with her grandmother, she’s not sure what to expect. Her grandmother is stern, the people on the island are strange, and children are not allowed to run wild or express themselves the way they did back in Copenhagen – especially if you are a girl. Inge Maria tries not to feel sorry for herself, but she misses her mama. And on top of everything else, mischief seems to have a way of finding her no matter how hard she tries to be good ... But could it be that a bit of mischief is exactly what Inge Maria’s grandmother and the people of Bornholm need? Winner of the 2014 NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Children’s Literature — The Patricia Wrightson Prize Notable Book — 2014 CBCA Book of the Year Awards (Younger Readers) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1516083001743-2ZGVQRFK7ISAIZ3TGFET/Olive+of+Groves+Cover.jpg Books - Olive of Groves (ABC/Harper Collins, 2015) Olive has always dreamed of attending boarding school, but Mrs Groves' Boarding School for Naughty Boys, Talking Animals and Circus Performers is not what she expected. To tell the truth, dear reader, it is not what anyone expected! The headmistress is completely bonkers and Pig McKenzie, school bully and all-round nasty swine, is determined to make Olive's life unbearable. Olive, however, is clever, sweet and kind, and soon gains the loyalty and devotion of three rats, a short-sighted moose, a compulsive liar and a goose who faints at the sight of cherries. But will friendship and wits be enough when Pig McKenzie puts his Truly Wicked Plan into gear? Or will Olive be cast out of Groves forever? Shortlisted for the 2016 Indie Book Awards (Children’s) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1516089547481-PVXWR5HB48U4ABCK85RC/GDW+Rome.png Books - The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in Rome (ABC/Harper Collins, 2017) For the first ten years of Freja's life, she and her mother Clementine have roamed the Arctic in search of zoological wonders. Happy, content, together. Freja and Clem. Clem and Freja. But now, everything is changing, and Clementine must send Freja away to live with her old friend Tobias, a best-selling crime writer and, quite possibly, the most absent-minded man on earth. Tobias isn't used to life with a child, and Freja isn't used to people at all, but together they'll stumble into an Italian adventure so big that it will change things forever... This is the first book in a new series about family, friendship and finding yourself. Notable Book — 2018 CBCA Book of the Year Awards (Younger Readers) Shortlisted for the 2018 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards (8–10 Years) Longlisted for the 2018 ABIA Book of the Year for Younger Children (Ages 7–13) Here you can browse at a few photos of Rome. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1527988766156-OJPL1327E94Y3WXWNCWQ/GDW+Provence.jpg Books - The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in Provence ABC/Harper Collins, Australia, 2018 When Freja and Tobias arrive in Claviers, it feels like home. The hilltop village is surrounded by olive groves, lavender fields and drifts of red poppies. The market square hides a world-famous patisserie and an antique merry-go-round. Pippin, their precocious young neighbour, and Vivi, the beautiful chef, fill their lives with chatter and laughter and love. For a moment, the girl, the dog and the writer are happy. But a spate of criminal activity casts a cloud over the village. Freja is determined to solve the mystery and uncover the villain, but the closer she gets, the more impossible things seem to become… Notable Book — 2019 CBCA Book of the Year Awards (Younger Readers) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1565838838942-6QLWOWYR3B2ONWFT2T68/y648.jpg Books - The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in Lucerne (ABC/Harper Collins, 2019) At last, Freja and her mother, Clementine, are together again. Tobias and Vivi are in love. And Lucerne, Freja's new home, is a paradise of snowy alps, sapphire lakes, white swans and delicious Swiss chocolate! Everything seems perfect, until poor Lady P appears, bandaged from head to toe after a fall - or was it a push? Crimes break out across the city, all involving chocolate. Clementine doesn't seem her usual self. And still Freja has not solved the biggest mystery — who is Tobias Appleby? All is revealed in the girl, the dog and the writer's final adventure. Notable Book — 2020 CBCA Book of the Year Awards (Younger Readers) Shortlisted for the 2020 Davitt Awards (Best Children’s Crime Novel) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1633320632019-USO6RR0XXTA08J7MG6UI/Cover+2.jpg Books - The Travelling Bookshop - Mim and the Woeful Wedding (ABC/Harper Collins, 2022) Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy. Flossy leads them where she will, to the place where they're needed most ... the place where the perfect book will find its way home. Now Mim has arrived on a charming Greek Island, where a wedding is about to take place. Everyone is excited - everyone, that is, except the bride and groom. Mim knows they're here to help Anjelica, the bride. To stop the wedding. To set her free to follow her dreams. If only Anjelica would read the right book, the one Mim gave her. If only she would stop reading the wrong book. Notable Book — 2023 CBCA Book of the Year Awards (Younger Readers) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1626938256191-IZ70Y2MAEBBOPAI72PND/thumbnail_C0894+-+1080+x+1080+-+Rabbit%2C+Soldier%2C+Angel%2C+Thief+-+cover+reveal+IG.jpg Books - Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief (ABC/Harper Collins, 2021) Wood splinters and Mama screams and the nearest soldier seizes her roughly by the arms. My sister pokes her bruised face out from beneath the table and shouts, 'Run, Sasha! Run!' So I run. I run like a rabbit. It's spring, 1942. The sky is blue, the air is warm and sweet with the scent of flowers. And then everything is gone. The flowers, the proud geese, the pretty wooden houses, the friendly neighbours. Only Sasha remains. But one small boy, alone in war-torn Russia, cannot survive. One small boy without a family cannot survive. One small boy without his home cannot survive. What that small boy needs is an army. Winner of the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize (Children and Young Adult) Winner of the 2022 Indie Book Awards (Children’s) Winner of the 2022 ABA Booksellers’ Choice Book of the Year Awards (Children’s) Winner of the 2022 CBCA Sun Project: Shadowers’ Choice Awards (Younger Readers) Honour Book — 2022 CBCA Book of the Year Awards (Younger Readers) Shortlisted for the 2022 ABIA Book of the Year for Younger Children (Ages 7–12) Shortlisted for the 2022 Book Links Award for Children’s Historical Fiction Shortlisted for the 2023 NSW Premier's Award for Children's Literature - the Patricia Wrightson Prize. Shortlisted for the 2023 R.E.A.L./ KOALA Awards (Years 7–9) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1626051351277-M969IZELLQZ2DS9FA137/x293.jpg Books - The Travelling Bookshop - Mim and the Baffling Bully (ABC/Harper Collins, 2021) Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy. Flossy leads them where she will, to the place where they’re needed most … the place where the perfect book will find its way home. Now Mim has arrived in a pretty Dutch village where she meets Willemina, a kind and gentle child, who is being bullied by a girl named Gerda. Mim knows they’re here to help Willemina. To change her life. To make her strong and brave and happy. If only Dad would find her the right book. If only he would stop giving everyone else the wrong book! Notable Book — 2022 CBCA Book of the Year Awards (Younger Readers) Shortlisted for the 2022 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards (8–10 Years) Shortlisted for the 2023 R.E.A.L./ KOALA Awards (Younger Readers) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1602019343687-TF2Q1O746KF2N2NZIVAC/Wolves.jpg Books - We Are Wolves (ABC/Harper Collins, 2020) Sometimes it’s good to be wild. Sometimes you have to be wild. When the Russian Army marches into East Prussia at the end of the war, the Wolf family must flee. Liesl, Otto and their baby sister, Mia, find themselves lost and alone, in a blizzard, in the middle of a war zone. Liesl has promised Mama that she will keep her brother and sister safe. But sometimes, to survive, you have to do bad things. Dangerous things. Wild things. Sometimes to survive, you must become a wolf. Winner of the 2021 ARA Historical Novel Prize (Children and Young Adult) Winner of the 2021 Book Links Award for Children’s Historical Fiction Winner of the 2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature — Children’s Literature Award Winner of the 2022 KOALA Awards (Fiction for Years 7–9) Shortlisted for the 2021 Queensland Literary Awards — Children’s Book Award Shortlisted for the 2021 CBCA Book of the Year Awards (Younger Readers) Shortlisted for the 2021 ABA Booksellers’ Choice Book of the Year Awards (Children’s) Shortlisted for the 2024 Children’s Sequoyah Book Award Longlisted for the 2021 ABIA Book of the Year for Younger Children (Ages 7–12) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1709671813401-4ZTWDGBQZ6R9M4OPXIH8/Book+5.jpg Books ABC/Harper Collins, 2024 Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy. Flossy leads them where she will, to the place where they're needed most ... the place where the perfect book will find its way home. Now Mim has arrived in wonderful Venice, city of canals, palaces, bridges, boats and ... quarrels. Gondolier battles, cat-nappings and laundry theft are just the beginning. The Magnifico family and the Forte family are at war. Mim knows they're here to help the feuding families. To show them a better way to behave. To bring an end to the vicious vendetta. If only Mim could find each of them the right book. If only they'd all stop reading the wrong books. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1716782843750-NORDRNN1VZFP4F70J363/All+the+Beautiful+Things+-+Cover+Reveal.jpg Books - All the Beautiful Things (ABC/Harper Collins, 2024) A new heart-wrenching, impeccably researched historical novel for middle-grade readers. The Nazis want everyone to be the same. If you're different, you don't belong. Not belonging is dangerous ... Anna's little sister, Eva, is frail and needs time to learn new things. She has a huge heart and a gift for loving, but Hitler doesn't value such riches. And so she's hidden away. Safe for now, but with the threat of discovery always near. Anna does her best to bring joy and light to Eva's small life with stories, trinkets and treasures from the outside world. But soon, more children need hiding. Risks are taken - by Anna, by her best friend Udo, by a Nazi seamstress and feisty Brunhilde. Until Anna wonders if any of them will make it through the war ... Loyalty and love. Family and friendship. Understanding and tolerance. Right and wrong. Multi-award-winning Australian author Katrina Nannestad explores it all in this thrilling and powerful historical novel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1655859858056-ARFT8919P2CJOMPSMLSH/Waiting+For+The+Storks+Social+1.jpg Books - Waiting For the Storks (ABC/Harper Collins, 2022) I don't want to remember the truck, or the night I was taken, or the family I left behind. I am not a sad Polish girl. I am a good and happy German girl. I am. I am. I am. It's the Second World War and Himmler's Lebensborn Program is in full flight when eight-year-old Zofia Ulinski is kidnapped by the Germans. She has blonde hair and blue eyes, just like the other Polish children taken from their families and robbed of their names, their language, their heritage. But when Zofia is adopted into a wealthy and loving German family, it is easier, it is safer to bury her past, deep down, so everything is forgotten. Until the Polish boy arrives. And the past comes back to haunt her. From Katrina Nannestad, multi-award-winning author of We Are Wolves and Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief, comes a story about family lost and found, and the choices we make when we don't have a choice at all. Winner - 2023 Queensland Literary Awards - Children’s Book Award Winner - 2023 Book Links Award for Children’s Historical Fiction Notable Book — 2023 CBCA Book of the Year Awards (Younger Readers) Shortlisted - 2023 ARA Historical Novel Prize - Children/YA Shortlisted - 2023 ABIA Book of the Year for Younger Children (ages 7-12) Shortlisted - 2023 R.E.A.L./KOALA Awards (Years 7-9) Shortlisted - 2024 YABBA (Young Australians Best Book Awards) - Fiction for Years 7-9 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1689842003220-BWGD6U2AEIRHNNE96RLX/y648.jpg Books - The Travelling Bookshop - Mim and the Disastrous Dogshow (ABC/Harper Collins, 2023) Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy. Flossy leads them where she will, to the place where they're needed most ... the place where the perfect book will find its way home. Now Mim has arrived in the Cotswolds, just in time for a dog show. The judge, Lord Melville-Timms, is in a pickle. He has judged cakes and flowers and vegetables, but never dogs. And his bulldog, Bubbles, is shamefully disobedient! Mim knows they're here to help Lord Melville-Timms. To give him courage. To prevent a dog-show disaster. If only Mim could find Lord Melville-Timms the right book. If only Dad would stop giving him the wrong book. Shortlisted - 2024 YABBA (Young Australians Best Book Awards) - Fiction for Younger Readers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1733630736816-WYLAL74MCGP5V6CIU171/C1024+-+Mim+and+the+Anxious+Artist+-+Digital+-+FB+Cov.jpg Books - The Travelling Bookshop 6 - Mim and the Mother Muddle ABC/Harper Collins, 2025 Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy. Flossy leads them where she will, to the place where they're needed most ... the place where the perfect book will find its way home. Now Mim has arrived in Salzburg -- the town of Mozart and mountains, gardens and castles, Sacher torte and sausages ... and Mum! Mim knows they're here to help Mum recover from the bump to her head. To show her love and patience. To remind her who she is. If only they could find Mum the right book. If only Dad would stop giving everyone the same silly book. The charming new adventure from award-winning author Katrina Nannestad and beloved illustrator Cheryl Orsini. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1697669732269-U8D8G2JYAIRPW7VTAK7G/Final+COV_Silver+LiningsMarkmockup.jpg Books - Silver Linings (ABC/Harper Collins, 2023) A new heartwarming novel set in 1950s Australia from bestselling author Katrina Nannestad Nettie Sweeney has a dad, three big sisters, a farm full of cows and a cat called Mittens. But it's not enough. She longs for a mother. One with a gentle touch and sparkles in her eyes. Instead, she has Aunty Edith with slappy hands, a sharp tongue and the disturbing belief that peas are proper food. When Dad marries Alice, all Nettie's dreams come true. The Sweeney home overflows with laughter, love and, in time, a baby brother. Billy. The light of Nettie's life. Then tragedy strikes. The Sweeney family crumbles. Nettie tries to make things right, but has she made everything so much worse? From multi-award-winning Australian author Katrina Nannestad comes a heartbreakingly beautiful and uplifting historical novel. Life and death. Weddings and floods. Coronation joy and post-war grief. Nettie Sweeney and her community experience it all. Together. With humour, kindness and love. Shortlisted for the 2024 Indie Book Awards - Children’s Books Shortlisted for the 2024 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Award (8-10 Years) Longlisted for the 2024 ARA Historical Novel Prize - Children and Young Adult https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1754007327083-X8T6FHZCBJ7O873YVKQZ/Final+Cover.jpg Books - A Song for the King A heartwarming and humorous retelling of the traditional nativity story, told from the viewpoint and 'singing voices' of the baby animals at the inn. Netta the donkey loves to sing with her friends, Esther the sheep and Uzi the camel. They frolic around town from dawn till dusk, braying, bleating and gurgling. But sadly, not everyone likes to listen. Netta falls silent until something so wondrous happens that her song bursts forth once more. A joyful nativity story from award-winning creators Katrina Nannestad and Freya Blackwood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1754007438314-5Z1NXG2IXBH7SH13496M/Cover.jpg Books - The Story Writer's Handbook There is so much about writing that I love - playing with words, scribbling freely without a destination in mind, gathering ideas, daydreaming, planning, problem-solving and, of course, creating stories. Let's gambol, ramble, dabble and dance in storytelling. Just for fun. It will get your imagination whirring, your ideas expanding and your talents growing. Happy writing! Katrina From the award-winning, bestselling Australian author Katrina Nannestad comes a playful yet practical guide to creating your own stories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1760487590293-3XWBQ7KBO275AQW4HRP9/C1534+-+Frances+Bloom+-+Digital+Assets+FA14.jpg Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1764197602848-RR4D6BRLWD33T87TOQ2O/y648.jpg Books - The Travelling Bookshop 7 - Mim and the Frazzled Fruit Farmer ABC/ Harper Collins, 2026 The right book might just change your life ... Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy. Flossy leads them where she will, to the place where they're needed most ... the place where the perfect book will find its way home. Now Mim has arrived in thrilling Norway -- the land of mountains and fjords, Vikings and trolls, friendly folk and cuddly sheep, and one super-greedy apple thief. Norbert the fruit farmer is desperate. If the thief is not stopped, his farming days will end. Mim knows they're here to help Norbert. To solve the mystery of the vanishing apples. To save the farm. If only Mim could find Norbert the right book. If only Dad would stop giving everyone the wrong book. The entrancing new adventure from award-winning author Katrina Nannestad and beloved illustrator Cheryl Orsini. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1770361197453-BWFQB1P5VGLXD9ZLKV9V/Cover+2.jpg Books - Frances Bloom 2 - Dangerous Days ABC/Harper Collins, 2026 Frances Bloom's dreams have come true. Her grandparents are a honey-coloured bear and a garden gnome. Nasty Ms Thistle has been taken to Harsh Island Home for Unwanted Teachers and Cats. Her class is being taught by a retired pirate and a busker. Her friends are many and her happiness is huge. So why is she troubled? Could it be the mean cats that are new to the village? The talking bush in her garden? The stolen tricycle? Or the feeling that she's being followed? Can Frances work it out before disaster strikes? Delight in the cheeky antics of eight-year-old Frances Bloom with multi-award-winning Australian author Katrina Nannestad. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1770771559656-5ZOVAMK661HNIOQROWOS/your-next-read-silver-bea-bart-and-the-birds-9781923419292_lg.jpg Books - Bea, Bart and the Birds (Affirm Press, 2026) Your Next Read - SILVER Do you like ANIMALS, FAMILY and SURPRISING STORIES? Then this book is YOUR NEXT READ! It all starts with Boo, the owl. Bea and Bart take her home and love her. Soon, they have a feathered family! But Bea and Bart are not the only ones interested in these unusual birds … https://www.katrinanannestad.com/blog daily 0.75 2017-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1431568101035-B4UNGCRB96NZRKSWJOOH/IMG_0020.JPG Blog https://www.katrinanannestad.com/blog/2017/1/22/my-blog-has-a-new-home monthly 0.5 2017-01-23 https://www.katrinanannestad.com/blog/2017/1/19/country-dreaming monthly 0.5 2017-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1484886283632-NPDNFMQGXU0885MY0VRW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Country Dreaming The Great Dane with the summer-golden grass blowing against his knees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1484886448970-45CIF4XF08SAGGR3JKNR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Country Dreaming https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1484886553184-TWVDSO0KTS8YB5O153HN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Country Dreaming https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1484886628998-EB2IDLCRQK7MLVJH0J8E/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Country Dreaming Effortlessly frumpy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1484886977131-SJX7T82ZRSQ3IK97CHH0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Country Dreaming https://www.katrinanannestad.com/blog/2016/3/30/grand-designs-gone-wrong monthly 0.5 2016-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1459389041612-2Y8K801915TARVUJEOKT/Kevin+Mcleod.jpg Blog - Grand Designs gone wrong. So very, very wrong! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1459389554161-SMWTR9NFX71QJ9RX7VFB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Grand Designs gone wrong. So very, very wrong! https://www.katrinanannestad.com/blog/2016/3/21/wha monthly 0.5 2016-03-21 https://www.katrinanannestad.com/blog/2016/2/11/daydreaming-for-business-and-pleasure monthly 0.5 2016-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1455169017514-IYYM7L1JRO0FESF7ME2F/image-asset.png Blog - Daydreaming for Business and Pleasure https://www.katrinanannestad.com/blog/2016/2/4/lippy-and-the-slippery-slope monthly 0.5 2016-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1454639773796-RGOEVO07NVE7BQU9R261/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Lippy and the Slippery Slope https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1454639837007-BR718BSZJVZ3S5N53ME9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Lippy and the Slippery Slope https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1454639872729-JS7BZ6XRJEMHIKO2X56L/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Lippy and the Slippery Slope https://www.katrinanannestad.com/blog/2016/1/26/wild-teens-watch-sunrise monthly 0.5 2016-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1453863987534-O0QHRUYUUZ0TL52GZYEE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Wild Teens Watch Sunrise Yabby fashion - checked shirt and terry-towelling short shorts. Lovely! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1453864066952-3HUWW3G8WCPADX2OG14O/FullSizeRender+%282%29.jpg Blog - Wild Teens Watch Sunrise Walking home from a yabbying outing, across the paddocks, yabby sack slung over Kylie's shoulder. My brother has made a shady head-dress by rolling the end of his towel around his leg. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1453864277250-G08DQZJBMXL7H94R3OKU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Wild Teens Watch Sunrise Our favourite dam. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1453864321897-L30QECZ4ZT8SMC9VH96W/FullSizeRender%5B5%5D.jpg Blog - Wild Teens Watch Sunrise Spring time at our favourite dam. The Harvey Ranges are in the background. My friends are making daisy chains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1453864382739-Q17ACGWZKRDT8MQ1DJP3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Wild Teens Watch Sunrise Me at a church tennis outing. I look unenthusiastic, I know, but those old wooden racquets were incredibly small which made ball-contact almost impossible. The sponge cake at afternoon tea, however, was large and delicious and had my total dedication. https://www.katrinanannestad.com/blog/2016/1/18/a-privileged-childhood-in-a-feral-backyard monthly 0.5 2016-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1453166342915-6SDD91XOICT941ZPE53P/FullSizeRender+%282%29.jpg Blog - A Privileged Childhood in a Feral Backyard The calm and pretty façade of 79 Edward Street belied the chaos, danger and adventure that lay beyond the carport. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1453167204555-GG597FF9H71SM4TKIXB3/IMG_4090.JPG Blog - A Privileged Childhood in a Feral Backyard Yes, that's me on the right, my brother on the left. Not only were we energetic and creative children, we were total fashion icons. Long live the tucked-in skivvy! The elasticised waist band, by the way, was stylish while proving quite flexible for tree climbing and parachuting. https://www.katrinanannestad.com/blog/2016/1/7/blitzing-my-new-years-resolutions monthly 0.5 2016-01-07 https://www.katrinanannestad.com/blog/2015/11/12/i-am-electrogirl monthly 0.5 2015-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1447389130933-08E9M7LOHIDDDK19F17W/image-asset.jpeg Blog - I am Electrogirl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1447389194822-KEQ8I6RUQHBX2695SVLL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - I am Electrogirl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1447389263676-QDJB0H93N05BI8JUDCE6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - I am Electrogirl https://www.katrinanannestad.com/blog/2015/10/31/writers-block-or-just-good-old-fashioned-procrastination-with-a-dose-of-exhaustion-thrown-in monthly 0.5 2015-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1446348662132-2MVOGWMSEX0QGAW8SFKS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Writer’s block or just good old fashioned procrastination with a dose of exhaustion thrown in for good measure? https://www.katrinanannestad.com/blog/2015/10/25/whats-your-favourite-love-song monthly 0.5 2015-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1445761318575-O89AO4V4SCGZH6UTBE83/IMG_2783.JPG Blog - Remember the days of the old school yard? Just one example of my extensive collection of hair baubles. Here, they are teamed with some simple silver slides, but my mother also experimented with buttons slipped onto bobby pins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1445761679733-Q3I47JW7XM16M8OEZC1V/IMG_2784.JPG Blog - Remember the days of the old school yard? I'm not sure if I'm posing here or holding my tummy after a particularly warm bottle of strawberry milk at school. https://www.katrinanannestad.com/blog/2015/9/30/a-place-called-penguin monthly 0.5 2015-10-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1443654672304-XVA66MNPK1HVOTU6XY9G/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Place Called Penguin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1443655022647-RTX2K91K8RHFAXPB5MRW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Place Called Penguin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1443655275627-T7E786Y17G49L6EN2W7R/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Place Called Penguin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1443655838425-127JQABRSOYQBIZGMG6R/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Place Called Penguin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1443656290003-Z4QZENT1XWRE3TUJ7302/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Place Called Penguin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1443656463552-Z4KEW6WREN1FBGYY0MVD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Place Called Penguin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1443657158857-HKXF1IGKU57YKMZ9YQIT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Place Called Penguin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1443657429005-0GKFNDXE4YWJQDMWD8WJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Place Called Penguin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1443657881620-AGWB5X8P63UXBEDCDYDZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Place Called Penguin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1443658250390-TPPP05MY2D32OG41FULM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Place Called Penguin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1443658540284-3QT3PPRG9R3Y2TI7BLS9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Place Called Penguin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1443658773019-FLLRCR1AGN1WNCB71OO9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Place Called Penguin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1443659114401-9ATA0FDMEW1V19XNNBHM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Place Called Penguin https://www.katrinanannestad.com/blog/2015/9/15/primary-fashion-icons monthly 0.5 2015-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1442308287124-JXRU07O27LTCNRGH4ZL4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Primary Fashion Icons Actually, I still think Miss Siebel looks absolutely stunning in this photo. I, on the other hand, look like Gretel from The Sound of Music (second row, third from the right). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1442308548780-DAZMHYVZDWK0UHUYCE0P/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Primary Fashion Icons I'm afraid the black and white photo does NOT do justice to her extreme passion for colour co-ordination. I'm the girl with plaits, second row, far right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1442308598857-3QZVBY5DUYPS9GAA7UZU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Primary Fashion Icons Yup! Strange but true - me and my mum, Mrs Brain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1442308838908-6NS4LV5PAAP98N8OTJV9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Primary Fashion Icons It pains me to see that Miss Doherty did not wear her sleeve protectors for our class photo. It delights me, however, that I got to stand right by her for the photo (second row, far right, sporting my best grin). https://www.katrinanannestad.com/blog/2015/9/9/surfy-whippet monthly 0.5 2015-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1441775281073-8QVVF4ODRCFP4KJJURTZ/Barwon+Heads+2015+110.JPG Blog - Surfy Whippet Nervous anticipation as Olive travels from home atop her beanbag chariot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1441776856292-QZIFFFIWQ2U70FG0L2FN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Surfy Whippet First sea breeze. First time balancing on a sea wall. First beachy photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1441775588445-XO1KQR4J66T3X3PGHVNA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Surfy Whippet Looking like a drowned rat after our first dip. It was meant to be a paddle but the water at the beach doesn't stay puddley-shallow all the way out. 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Who knows?). She was clean and shiny before Olive took her for a rumble in the sand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1441776576589-6CR8JZM04LXPECN67E8Q/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Surfy Whippet Teaching Bean to sit and wait politely for a treat from Kate's pocket. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1441777734375-9N6WPU7JZE7QAS1VK996/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Surfy Whippet Exhausted. Sleeping all the way home. https://www.katrinanannestad.com/blog/2015/8/31/im-a-wallowing-ditt-squirrel-what-kind-of-reader-are-you monthly 0.5 2015-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1441072730684-M9MLY4BN9RYV0FNEQN7Y/image-asset.jpeg Blog - I’m a Wallowing Ditt-squirrel. What kind of reader are you? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1441072514715-NAQM1HS8XFKR5ZATKB8J/image-asset.png Blog - I’m a Wallowing Ditt-squirrel. 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(It probably helped that I had just eaten a slice of lemon tart the size of my head at the Vienna Cafe in the Queen Victoria Building!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1439856064977-F8QTYEPLVSHDJOIFNZWR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Hotel Snacks a la Green Eggs and Ham And the Transcontinental Hotle in Melbourne the week before.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1439856163703-V6F0PQ5A2O5QX988ZKZ8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Hotel Snacks a la Green Eggs and Ham And the Stamford Plaza in Brisbane on Monday. Such fortitude I've shown! https://www.katrinanannestad.com/blog/2015/8/8/issues monthly 0.5 2015-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1439086028570-1N999FWENYX2Z98VEX4N/image-asset.jpeg Blog - ISSUES https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1439086333813-7AEOSF2KTJINAR8MON3W/image-asset.jpeg Blog - ISSUES https://www.katrinanannestad.com/blog/2015/8/1/around-the-world-in-eighty-selfies monthly 0.5 2015-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1438404728134-1AJRUV06IO8FU7BXLYM6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Around the World in Eighty Selfies First stop, an hour into the journey, for coffee and cake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1438404799003-LFN77FXP6N87CJEVVV4J/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Around the World in Eighty Selfies At Merewether with Jacqui and Charlie. Charlie is the one licking her nose. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1438404932055-RF8565BO2GLMTPGB1NLO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Around the World in Eighty Selfies There were signs everywhere promising 'a bunch of fun' at the Big Banana, but it's a great disappointment. Am I the only one who thinks it should be standing on its end, offering an internal spiral staircase up which one can climb, to emerge at the top for a bird's eye view of the coast and banana plantations? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1438405390279-M6OPJ9NWR3DS9TO2Q7G3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Around the World in Eighty Selfies At Lennox Head with my Aunty Anne. Aunty Anne is the quiet, sensible one of the family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1438405429095-YXJVWTSEMH24RWSQLKF2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Around the World in Eighty Selfies On the headland at Lennox Head, a whale splashing out at sea. My mum has developed a crazy glint in her eye by this stage and I am not sure whether it is one custard tart too many or selfie-mania. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1438405494014-195Y9V17P6I9XICLZI39/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Around the World in Eighty Selfies Having brekky at The Goldfish Bowl in Armidale with our beautiful friend Mary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1438405551933-QA4IVDROEN8QJ4JA6OHB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Around the World in Eighty Selfies Having dinner at the New England Hotel with old uni friends, Glenn and Rhonda Wilson. My goodness we have all aged well over the last thirty years! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1438405667542-PZAXL5ZSYY1Q6Y7TPNSB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Around the World in Eighty Selfies Back in Newcastle on the Anzac Bridge with Aunty Jacq, Callan and Charlie the grinning mutt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1438405776622-PU4E25Z47BLLJPEQRBCD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Around the World in Eighty Selfies Having a serious moment with nephews Callan and Matthew. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1438487853128-7063Q4WN48NKK3AO1A23/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Around the World in Eighty Selfies A return visit to that bakery, one hour from Mum's home, for a final apple-custard tart and caramel eclair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1438405942799-D95CX3LG6U6SLDCQSM5M/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Around the World in Eighty Selfies The dad selfie - happy that his wife has made it back to Canberra without drowning in cake and cream or slipping on the Big Banana peel.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1438407532001-Z9NVATSL6MKDLDHX4VUC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Around the World in Eighty Selfies Back home in central Victoria at last. A final selfie with Olive, my whippet. https://www.katrinanannestad.com/blog/2015/7/19/yarn-bombed-dog-stops-traffic-in-kyneton monthly 0.5 2015-07-20 https://www.katrinanannestad.com/blog/2015/7/13/chocolate-rules monthly 0.5 2015-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1436833105548-OIOUNXRE9BYJMCBBAOR1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Chocolate Rules Zero out of ten!!!! Not even the cunning heart shape could cover the tragedy within. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1436833240868-V9L15QADSM09VZ17SWWA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Chocolate Rules Try ranking your chocolates as you eat them. It is wonderfully fulfilling and adds an element of education and sophistication to working one's way through an entire box. https://www.katrinanannestad.com/blog/2015/7/6/150-years-and-going-strong monthly 0.5 2015-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1436236103093-SXHX9773DY1Z7B4H36QA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 150 years and going strong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1436236332553-6FTCMAPBALKX947JF1RG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 150 years and going strong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1436236281993-SWBW4EK7TBHYWCW1MP00/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 150 years and going strong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1436236421258-Z5ET4DRK39V9IFOI8R6E/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 150 years and going strong. https://www.katrinanannestad.com/blog/2015/6/30/you-want-me-to-explain-what monthly 0.5 2015-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1435713037310-6BNEVHM7AJ4ZMZ2RUBYF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - You want me to explain WHAT?!! The development of a story over generations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1435713145245-21P9GFS1977QDU5SZ17V/image-asset.jpeg Blog - You want me to explain WHAT?!! The ugly duckling in my 1854 copy of Hans Christian Andersen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1435713255042-NKZ22USN5L47PRXRVN3K/image-asset.jpeg Blog - You want me to explain WHAT?!! Thumbelina. https://www.katrinanannestad.com/blog/2015/6/25/uncultured-culture-finding-joy-in-the-dodgy-poems-of-old monthly 0.5 2015-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1435281015169-L6FRAZAPOBSZ2U9SOTVQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Uncultured Culture - Finding joy in the dodgy poems of old https://www.katrinanannestad.com/blog/2015/6/20/one-mans-meat- monthly 0.5 2015-06-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1434778214366-5L0S4F89OUEZFDIYJSUX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - One man's meat .... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1434778421270-9NVNAGBWE872QTGNSTPS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - One man's meat .... Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.   https://www.katrinanannestad.com/blog/2015/6/15/does-a-chicken-have-lips monthly 0.5 2015-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1434417113230-7ZGQQUXZNB852N6I536N/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Does a chicken have lips? In Venice, trying to determine whether or not the pigeons have lips. https://www.katrinanannestad.com/blog/2015/6/10/make-way-for-the-donkey-ambulance monthly 0.5 2015-06-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1433911583359-LJIAJ53YEB709B4UXWLO/Nannestad%27s+Trip+219.jpg Blog - Make way for the donkey ambulance! https://www.katrinanannestad.com/blog/2015/5/31/whats-in-a-name monthly 0.5 2015-06-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1433122637074-NVXD2GQJU4NOXMNC3PC6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What's in a Name? Perhaps we should all wear sweaters with our names across the front ... or name tags in our ears ... https://www.katrinanannestad.com/blog/2015/5/24/crocodiles-sing-amazing-grace monthly 0.5 2015-05-25 https://www.katrinanannestad.com/blog/2015/5/17/the-end-or-just-the-end-of-a-book monthly 0.5 2015-05-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1431996916632-IWJVBUKZKVQOR0LJ9NO1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The end ... or just the end of a book? https://www.katrinanannestad.com/blog/2015/5/13/everything-is-more-fun-with-animals monthly 0.5 2015-05-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1431997108876-SM1TEE4WZ5JPL0O5W3MZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Everything is more fun with animals https://www.katrinanannestad.com/blog/2015/5/6/jolly-chums monthly 0.5 2015-05-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1431997205191-XGW0S6KG1WEWV9IUZCNM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Jolly chums https://www.katrinanannestad.com/blog/2015/5/4/a-world-in-a-word monthly 0.5 2015-05-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1431997289066-8BKTK2G4QRRFNIKW2U9D/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A world in a word https://www.katrinanannestad.com/blog/category/jolly+books monthly 0.5 https://www.katrinanannestad.com/blog/category/playing+with+words monthly 0.5 https://www.katrinanannestad.com/recipes daily 0.75 2018-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1516085013804-507AYJV7Y551SBQQ0UY8/GB5.jpg Recipes - Gingerbread Men   Ingredients: 250g butter, softened 1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed ¾ cup golden syrup 1 egg 4 cups plain flour 2 teaspoons ground ginger 2 teaspoons cinnamon 2 teaspoons bicarb soda Extra plain flour for dusting board   Method: 1. Preheat oven to 180C. 2. Cream butter and sugar. 3. Beat in golden syrup and egg. 4. Stir in flour, ginger, cinnamon and bicarb soda. Add a little more flour if necessary, until dough is soft to touch but no longer sticky. 5. Turn dough onto floured board and knead lightly until smooth. 6. Press dough into two balls. Wrap in cling-wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes to rest. 7. Place dough between two sheets of baking paper and roll out until about 4mm thick. 8. Use shaped cutters or the tip of a knife to cut out gingerbread men, mice or three-legged turkeys. Place on paper-lined baking trays 4cm apart. 9. Bake for about 10 minutes or until golden brown. 10. Cool for 5 minutes then remove to a cooling rack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1516084503722-NQA8Y7ITD1B832TCFT20/BB1.jpg Recipes - Blueberry Muffins   Ingredients 80 g butter, softened 2 eggs ½ teaspoon salt 1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla essence 2 cups SR flour ½ cup milk 2 cups blueberries - fresh or frozen   Method 1. Beat together butter, sugar, eggs, salt and vanilla until creamy. 2. Beat in flour and milk. 3. Stir in blueberries - just until distributed evenly through the mixture. Too much stirring will cause your muffins to go completely purple. If you like purple muffins, knock yourself out. Stir like crazy until all cream-coloured batter turns to an inky purple. 4. Spoon batter into muffin papers, reaching three quarters of the way up the sides. 5. Bake at 180C for 25 minutes or until golden brown on top and cooked through. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5500df8ee4b0f57d71dbc348/1516083718122-EAQSG143MWLY5UTBHFLQ/CC+1.jpg Recipes Choc-chip Bickies Makes approximately 70 small bickies or one large bickie, suitable to feed an elephant, a woolly mammoth or a hungry teenager.   Ingredients 250g butter - softened at room temperature. (Unless you live in an igloo, in which case it should be softened at body temperature by sticking it up your jumper for 10-15 minutes.) 1 cup white sugar 1 cup brown sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla essence 1 teaspoon salt 2 eggs 2½ cups plain flour. (You may need up to 3 cups of flour ... 4 cups if you spill a cup on the floor. If you find yourself needing more than 5 cups of flour, give up. Open a packet of chips or a block of chocolate instead.) 3 cups chocolate chips   Method 1. Preheat oven to 180C. 2. Cream butter with both kinds of sugar. 3. Beat in vanilla, salt and eggs, one at a time. 4. Beat in flour and baking powder. Mixture should be as moist as possible without sticking to your finger when poked. 5. Use a wooden spoon to stir in the chocolate chips. 6. Spoon dollops of the desired size onto lined baking trays. Leave approximately 5 cm between each dollop to allow bickies to spread as they bake. 7. Bake for 10-15 minutes, until golden brown and still a little bit soft. 8. Cool on tray for five minutes before lifting off with an egg slide and cooling on a baking rack. 9. 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