Month: March 2013

  • Easter Downtime. Feeling the Love For Chunky Choc Mint Kit Kats.

    Easter Downtime. Feeling the Love For Chunky Choc Mint Kit Kats.

    If you have a choice about which long weekend of the year to get a cold over, Easter would be the ‘best’. As a four day weekend, there’s hopefully enough time to make a full recovery. The pantry is also conveniently stocked with the kinds of food you need to both ease the pain of…

  • Gym Junkie Mornings. Livin’ La Vida Loca In Australia.

    Mornings have a special look about them in the final days before daylight saving ends for another summer.     If your usual weekday wake up time is around 5am, it is depressing to be greeted by a pitch black morning. Come 7am, however, the morning light finally decides to appear with conviction. It doesn’t…

  • Finding Sanctuary With Ayurituel At Chi Spa.

    Finding Sanctuary With Ayurituel At Chi Spa.

    Top – marni at H&M, London 2012, rings and things – T&Co, sparkly shower screen – Windex and me. I like to call this ‘Dress Code – Me Time’. Sleeves that hit the bottom of my fingers, dry clean only fabrics, a high neckline accessorised with an art installation …. there’s not a ruche or…

  • The Early Noughties In Clothes and Shoes. The Timbers.

    The Early Noughties In Clothes and Shoes.  The Timbers.

    Do you remember the time when Jennifer Lopez was JLo? It was the early 2000s and I was extremely susceptible to the prevailing winds of celebrity fashion. Jenny From the Block was her on stage persona and man wise, they were the PDiddy years. Cargo pants in parachute silk and cut ‘down to there’ green…

  • Mindful Living.

    Having some time to think over life isn’t something that happens often enough for me. Usually, my spare time is spent ‘doing’ rather than ‘thinking’. One activity or goal leads to another, the time in between flies past on auto pilot and before you know it, you find yourself being a detached bystander watching your…

  • A Pseudo Spill and A Sorry. The Elusive Notebook.

    www.yahoo.com.au Well, that was a whole lot of drama for drama’s sake. Yesterday’s leadership spill that stopped a nation (whilst sending twitter into overdrive) saw PM Gillard retain her position unopposed despite her ex-boss’s name being put forward for the contest (without his consent). I dontp’t think I’ll be alone in not voting Labor this…

  • Crisp Autumn Mornings. Small Paul. The Polar Fleece Fold.

    It’s not just the latest editions of the food magazines that are saying it but the weather is as well. Autumn has arrived.     There’s a crispness to the mornings these days and having something hot to drink in the morning is a necessity as well as a ritual. Another thing that means the…

  • Politics. A Real Housewife Writes.

    With just under 6 months until the federal election, I’m really feeling for the bookmakers at places like Centrebet. Potential nominees for the ALP leadership seem to be appearing every other week. One week you think you’ve got a complete list of names from which to calculate individual odds and the next, someone else needs…

  • Mothercare Memories. Sunday Treats.

    Mothercare Memories.  Sunday Treats.

    Gee, autumn has been kind to us in Sydney.     It was another gloriously sunny Sunday today. The laundry on the line was bone dry by mid afternoon and I drove home from my swim with the sun on my arms. It’s going to be so hard to say that inevitable goodbye to this…

  • Bloody Mary Mussels – Jamie Oliver Style.

    Bloody Mary Mussels – Jamie Oliver Style.

    I’m sure you’ve heard that the secret to keeping to time when cooking with Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals is to only make a single dish from each set of recipes at a time. Well, it turned out that was just the kind of secret I needed to be clued into on a Friday night. Mr…