About Me

My name is Kim. I am a ceramic artist and storyteller, I have been blogging as Frog Ponds Rock since 2007.

I live on a small island underneath Australia and I like to do my thinking in public.

I am 45 years old. How the hell did that happen? I can’t remember my twenties, I got my shit together in my thirties and now I am in my forties. It is true that youth is wasted on the young.

I fell in love with clay over twenty years ago but life and children intervened. I spent most of the nineties and early noughties raising my children and helping my husband build our home from recycled materials.

When my eldest child went to college she dragged me along with her and I rediscovered my love for clay.

I also balance amazing cooking with indifferent housekeeping. Vacuuming is definitely bad for your soul.

I see dragons in the clouds and I dream about clay. Sometimes I catch glimpses of ghosts and I whisper my secrets to the moon.

I am comfortable in my skin and my hair is purple.

Once I was positive that my children had mastered the use of correct grammar,spelling and punctuation. I promptly forgot all the rules.

It was like all that information had been sucked right out of my brain. And I find that I am starting sentences with conjunctions and using full stops as exclamation marks… Oh dear, there goes another ellipse…

The cast of characters are as follows.

The Spouse:- My long suffering husband Jeffrey, I found him on the side of the road and decided to keep him. We have been together for 24 years and I love him very much, he is my best friend. BUT, I do have my alibi prepared for the day that he finally pushes me over the edge..

Together we produced two children.

Veronica:- Who has her own blogs. Sleepless Nights and Veronica Foale

David:- Who occasionally reads this blog, so whilst he does some incredibly blogworthy stuff, I promised that I wouldn’t embarrass him on the internets. David is 17 and the definition of what is embarrassing, can and does change without notice.

My Mother Lyn:- Who was diagnosed with lung cancer on the 24th of June 2008. My Mother has never smoked is a social drinker and has been fit and active her whole life. Cancer fucking sucks.

Mum died on the 24th of June 2009 and my grief has stolen all my words.

Amy and Isaac:- Veronica’s gorgeously quirky children.