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Plans for Easter. A Few Good Oils.
It’s less than a week until Easter! Which means it’s officially okay to be having hot cross buns for breakfast and also to start planning what to do on that glorious 4 day Easter long weekend. Do you think the Hunger Games hysteria would have settled down by then? If so, I’ll try and persuade…
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Contemplating Marni. Better Handwriting.
Not only is it Friday, but we’ve also hit a pocket of my favourite kind of weather in Sydney. Sure the mornings are brutally dark but daylight saving ends this weekend and then we get to have dark evenings back. And yes, the weather each night changes so that often you need 2 sets of…
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Jar-Dazzled Moccona. Cut Priced Connoisseur.
Thank you for your thoughts and tweets today. Everything appears to be going to plan with the tests and the interview went well. It’s about time good things came in threes, don’t you think? That third good think being the SSG fourth wedding anniversary. Neither of us knows exactly where all that time went but…
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Bits and Pieces. Bicarb Baths. Daiso Greenery.
I’m feeling a little ‘bits and pieces’ today. Not really here but not really there at the same time. My mind’s on so many things right now. There’s excitement, there’s nerves and the good old ‘can’t wait until it’s all done’. But there’s also a whole heap of reflection and a sense of how far…
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The Weeknight Book Club: Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay
Sometimes, the novel you start whilst trying to finish another turns out to be The One. Image from www.davekirsten.blogspot.com The One that keeps you reading all weekend, right up until Sunday night. The One that makes you tear through your chores (even the shopping related ones) and lose all interest in the week’s worth of…
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Pomegranate Noir Scented Baths.
There’s no denying the distinct chill in the night air in Sydney right now. I’m starting to need a hot cup of tea after dinner these days. Made whilst wearing my pink ugg boots and flannel pyjamas. Themselves further signs that winter is approaching in SSG Manor. On the nights Mr SSG is in charge…
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The Posts That Begin With Soooooo…..
Sooooo. That’s going to be the code, I think, for all future posts about pregnancy. Not so much a code but a warning, I guess. Because I know that this blog means different things to each of you and to me. The book reviews, the food reviews, the travel, the shopping, the riveting details of…
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Where Art Thou Wagon Wheels?
That’s the question for you today, readers. www.fnw.com.au I paraphrased ‘Romeo and Juliet’ because right now, a local supermarket without Wagon Wheels is a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions. I looked everywhere. The biscuit aisle, the chocolate aisle and even the impulse purchase section right in front of the cash registers but to no avail. According…
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The Week Night Book Club: The Reality Slap by Dr Russ Harris.
www.doubleday.com.au When two people from very different parts of your life suggest that you read a particular book, it’s wise to do so. ‘The Reality Slap’ by Russ Harris was the book in question for me. I think it takes a brave person to suggest a self help book to another, there is so much…
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Le Pain Quotidien, Soho, London.
Sometimes you really do have to travel so far for something so near. Le Pain Quotidien, Soho, London is actually part of a multinational chain of boulangeries, three of which can be found in Sydney (none of which I”ve been to though I’m thinking now that I need to address this). To totally confuse matters, there…