2024-02-18 20:00
Do you remember the first time you ever used a computer mouse? If you’re younger than 30 I think we can assume you are a digital native and don’t have any clear memory of when yo… Read More
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Welcome to the world of Janetti Spaghetti! Perhaps we've already met - after all, I've been blogging for over ten years now. You may remember me from such blogs as Middle Aged Mama, Redland City Living or Footprints. I must be the master (mistress) of re-invention because here I am again! At Janetti Spaghetti, I'm blogging purely for the love of it - and I hope you enjoy reading, as much as I enjoy the writing. So grab a cuppa, get comfy, and come join me on the journey. Who knows where we will end up?!
2024-02-11 20:00
WARNING: Kitty spam ahead!!!! Friends, I has a sad 🙁 . Miss 27 has been living with us for the past 6 months, since her marriage broke down. Now she has moved into her own apartment… Read More
2024-02-04 23:00
It’s a bird … it’s a plane … it’s WHOOOOOSSSHHHH … January 2024 that’s flown right past us! 1 January – While we didn’t stay up to se… Read More
2024-01-21 20:00
I have a new obsession: sea glass. What was once litter – bottles that have been thrown away (and not exactly in an environmentally responsible way) – are smashed into pieces and… Read More
2024-01-14 20:00
It’s my 7th year of jumping on the Word for the Year bandwagon! I’m not sure what that says about me … perhaps that I am loyal and faithful to a fault? That I don’t… Read More
2024-01-03 03:42
Hello my fine friends, and a very happy New Year to you! December was pretty full-on, you can probably tell as my last post here on the blog was the November edition of A Sentence A Day. Don… Read More
2023-12-03 20:00
Reading over this post about our doings in November, I realised: I’m pretty darn lucky! I have a lovely husband and grown kids. We have our own home AND a beach house on an island. I w… Read More
2023-11-27 12:48
I must confess: in the week or so leading up to our Darwin holiday, I was kinda wondering WHY we had chosen to go there … what on earth was there to see and do?! It was a spur o… Read More
2023-11-13 06:50
What does October mean to you? While our northern hemisphere friends are finding the days are shorter and the leaves are falling, here is Brisbane we are in the middle of spring. To me… Read More
2023-10-15 20:00
Ooops I did it again … took my time pulling another blog post together! Here we are halfway through October already, and I am only just sharing my wrap up of September. There seems to… Read More
2023-10-02 00:00
Apparently there were a couple of big football games on the weekend. Clearly, I’m not a footy fan 😉 . For those not in Australia, there are two popular types of football here … Read More
2023-09-17 20:00
I’ve taken my inspiration for the title of this post from Seinfeld – a show we’ve been re-watching on Netflix of late, which was originally pitched as: a “TV show abo… Read More
2023-09-04 00:00
What can I tell you about August? Well, for one thing, I seem to be getting closer to achieving that ever elusive work-life balance. ‘Bout time too!!!! We’ve been going out more… Read More
2023-08-20 20:00
Out of the blue, we’ve booked a week’s holiday in Darwin! When we did our big trip around Australia, we never completed the lap – it took us six months to get half way (Bri… Read More
2023-08-06 20:00
Forgive me dear reader, for I have sinned. It’s been a whole month since I last posted here on the blog – my last Sentence A Day post in fact! Have you missed me?! Perhaps the re… Read More
2023-07-09 22:53
Halfway through 2023 already … how did THAT happen?! Is it just me or are the weeks going faster than ever?! Lucky I have my Sentence A Day Habit or it would all just be a blur! So, h… Read More
2023-06-25 20:00
We had a little mystery recently which I’m about to share with you, and I couldn’t resist naming this blog post in the tradition of Trixie Belden, Nancy Drew and the like (all of… Read More
2023-06-19 08:19
It was Dad’s 80th celebration on Saturday – a month late, it’s true, but it had been postponed as he had a fall which put him in hospital just before his birthday. 2020 was… Read More
2023-06-12 07:05
Hi, my name is Janet, and I am a word nerd. So when I saw a recent online challenge, that asked me to describe myself with ten words starting with the same letter as my first name – we… Read More
2023-06-04 20:00
Welcome to another behind the scenes look into the life of Janetti Spaghetti! Here’s what I got up to in May 2023 … lots of special moments with flowers and cake, seaside and su… Read More
2023-05-28 23:00
One of my favourite books growing up was the Louisa May Alcott classic, Little Women. I was reminded of this when I caught a snippet of the movie on TV recently – what I think of as th… Read More
2023-05-14 23:00
Have you ever stopped to think about what it would be like to lose your sight? I’m a very visual person and can only imagine how devastating it would be. However, recently my sister ex… Read More
2023-05-07 23:00
It seems I have a lot in common with elephants – and I’m not talking about my size! I’ve always taken it for granted, but the older I get the more I’m realising that… Read More
2023-05-01 00:00
What is April like your neck of the woods? Here in Bris-Vegas it might be Autumn (fall) but it still feels like Summer, with a few cooler nights thrown into the mix. There’s a heap of… Read More
2023-04-17 04:47
It’s a short and sweet blog post today, as we travelled to Rockhampton on the weekend. For those not in the know, Rocky is more than 7 hours’ drive north of Brisbane – yet… Read More
2023-04-11 00:00
Today’s blog post is all about my kidults, something I am sure they will be very happy about 😉 While they are the bestest of friends, they are very different personalities, som… Read More
2023-04-02 20:00
Hello friends, and welcome to another edition of A Sentence A Day from the wonderful world of Janetti Spaghetti. 2023 is marching on (excuse the pun!), how can we be a quarter of the way thr… Read More
2023-03-27 00:00
If you read my latest Sentence A Day post, you may remember that on 28th February I received the devastating news that somebody had been diagnosed with a terminal illness. Three weeks later… Read More
2023-03-20 00:00
It occurred to me that seeing as you all love my Sentence A Day posts, you might also enjoy learning more about the minutiae of what a typical week day looks like for me. I’m a wife, e… Read More
2023-03-12 20:00
Where do you stand when it comes to Facebook birthday messages? I’ll be honest – I’m not a huge fan. If the person celebrating a birthday is somebody close, I much prefer t… Read More
2023-03-05 20:00
Health issues loomed large in February, but we still made time to catch up with our kidults, as well as to do a few of our favourite things … 1 February – Had a meeting with one… Read More
2023-02-26 20:00
Before I go any further I should probably warn my kidults – I don’t know if this is suitable for you two to read 😉 . I was looking at the husbear the other day and… Read More
2023-02-19 20:00
You might have seen on social media that I spent Valentine’s Day in hospital, having surgery. How on earth did I end up in this position?! Out of all my potential health concerns as I… Read More
2023-02-12 20:00
With Valentine’s Day this week, I thought it would be fun to share some of the silly catchphrases and in-jokes that the husbear and I use. We’ve been together for over 35 years… Read More
2023-02-06 00:43
Can you believe we are 1/12th of the way through the year already? We started the year off right, still on holidays at our weekender on Coochiemudlo Island … but once we were back at… Read More
2023-01-29 20:00
Miss 26 and I had the pleasure of meeting our brand new Australian of the Year, Taryn Brumfitt, some years ago. And here’s the photo to prove it! I even blogged about hearing Taryn Bru… Read More
2023-01-22 23:44
I’m a writer, so you would think I have an excellent command of the English language. However I’ve been struggling to pinpoint my word for the year for 2023. In fact, when I star… Read More
2023-01-17 03:21
Hello, and welcome to a BUMPER edition of A Sentence A Day – where you get two for the price of one! Last month was a bit of a blur thanks to Covid, work deadlines, Christmas and summe… Read More
2023-01-08 20:00
I can’t believe it’s taken me over a month to pull this VIP (Very Important Post) together – I’ve been dying to share the highlights from our son’s wedding with… Read More
2022-11-27 20:00
We’ve had some sad times here in the Spaghetti family over the past couple of years. My father-in-law passed away in July 2021; my mother-in-law, in July 2022 (if she’d lasted ju… Read More
2022-11-13 20:00
It’s only a matter of weeks before our son gets married, so the hunt has been on for mother of the bridegroom outfits. His lovely fiance is from a Greek family (I wrote about the propo… Read More
2022-11-06 20:00
Hello friends 😉 You can tell I’ve been busy as I haven’t posted here on the blog for a couple of weeks. But now I’m back with the latest edition of A Sentence A Day… Read More
2022-10-16 20:00
Perhaps you’ve heard of Liptember (a fundraiser held each September for women’s mental health services) … well this is my Lipstory (Lipstick History)! Like most little gir… Read More
2022-10-09 20:00
They say that every cloud has a silver lining; that something good can come out of the very darkest times of our lives. This is my story of one such occasion; a look back on an event which l… Read More
2022-10-03 23:30
It’s spring, the season of celebration, and there was certainly a lot going on during September for the Spaghetti household! 1 September – After work I headed to the Wellington P… Read More
2022-09-18 20:00
One trend I’ve noticed in recent years, is the inclusion of a butler’s pantry in homes. If you have been following The Block you will know just what I mean. I think every si… Read More
2022-09-11 20:00
Or … what you don’t see on Zoom! I wish it looked like those amazing home offices you see on social media or in display homes: But the reality is my office looks very different… Read More
2022-09-05 20:00
And just like that, August has gone by in a blur … now the calendar has turned over to September, it really feels like a downhill slide to Christmas (and Mr 28’s wedding)! 1 Aug… Read More
2022-08-28 20:00
You might think that the umbilical cord is cut when your baby is born, but you’d be wrong. In most cases I don’t think it’s ever cut; it just stretches. Despite being the y… Read More
2022-08-21 20:00
I love my hair when it’s sitting just above my shoulders – I feel like that’s when it suits me best – and yet you might have noticed, I’ve been letting my hair… Read More
2022-08-14 20:00
It’s no secret that the husbear and I have long loved Coochiemudlo Island; it’s our happy place. What I have kept secret however, is that we bought a holiday house there about a… Read More
2022-08-07 20:00
Everybody jokes that kids suffer from selective hearing loss – meaning they only hear what they want to hear! Ask them to clean up their room while you’re watching TV with them a… Read More
2022-07-31 20:00
I’m not gonna lie: July 2022 kinda sucked and I’m glad to see the back of it! 1 July – Yesterday we got the call we’d been expecting, ever since my Mother in Law was… Read More
2022-07-24 20:00
Have you ever noticed that it’s really easy to name the things that we *don’t* like about ourselves – and a lot tougher to come up with a list of things that we *do*? Many… Read More
2022-07-17 20:00
Today we have a special guest author on the blog – my very own husbear. He gave a beautiful eulogy for his Mum at her funeral last week, and with his permission, I’m sharing it h… Read More
2022-07-10 20:00
Looking back on the notes in my diary for early June, it just seems so loooonnnnggg ago already … so much has happened! 1 June – A busy day of work and then, at 5.30pm (I normal… Read More
2022-06-27 00:00
In these days of indoor plumbing, you’re probably surprised to learn that there are times when I think a chamber pot would be darn handy. As a tiny tot, my nickname was “Jolly Ju… Read More
2022-06-19 20:00
It’s been a tad chilly the past couple of weeks – we’ve even dropped to single digit temperatures at night. While some might scoff that we don’t know what winter is h… Read More
2022-06-12 20:00
What do you do when it’s gone 9pm on a Sunday night, and you just KNOW that if you don’t have a fresh blog post published in the morning, your adoring public kidults will be cros… Read More
2022-06-05 20:00
Greetings dear reader, and how are things in your world? For my northern hemisphere friends, you will be enjoying the first days of summer; Down Under, we have just had the first burst of co… Read More
2022-05-29 20:00
I’m hip, I’m modern, I’m with it 😉 … quite some time ago Miss 25 set me up so I could go cardless, and pay instead using my phone. But that’s not the t… Read More
2022-05-22 20:00
I was saddened by the news last week that Toombul Shoppingtown is to remain closed after flooding earlier this year. You see, Toombul and I go way back 😉 . We were both born in the s… Read More
2022-05-16 00:00
You’d be forgiven for thinking that once you’d left high school, you’d also left peer pressure behind – but the reality is that peer pressure is something that affect… Read More
2022-05-08 20:00
How often do you say those three little words: “I love you”? I’m pretty sure the “L” word came up pretty quickly between the husbear and I when we first got tog… Read More
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