Month: September 2013

  • Harpaila.

    Good very early Sunday morning! It feels like the old days for me. A bit of time to myself, a large mug of tea (double tea bag) and the hankering for a bit of lightweight celebrity inspired blogging…. I’ve written about this strangeness before, I’m sure. The fascination that some adult women (myself included) have…

  • Pods Of Tea? Beyond the Purple Haze.

    Well here’s to the long weekend, Perth! Living in Perth at the moment, it’s difficult to appreciate that there is a world beyond tomorrow’s AFL Grand Final. The city is both eerily quiet and vividly purple as we head into the game tomorrow. It would be a fairytale ending for Fremantle if they were to…

  • Fine Weather, Briefly. Food Obsessives.

    I don’t remember ever being as obsessed (and upset) about the weather in Perth as I have been these last few weeks. I’m all for the city adopting the Melbourne approach to dressing and dining but the rain and four seasons in one day business? No thanks. Border security needs to take a firmer stance…

  • A Witchery Find. Around Town.

      This is the handbag equivalent of my Rockport wedge heels. Soft leather, goes with everything, easy to wear and best of all, I got it on sale at Witchery. It was practically free because I had Witchery dollars to redeem as well. I was pleasantly surprised at just how supple and thick the leather…

  • The Weeknight Book Club: The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey. The Silent Wife by A.S.A Harrison.

    When the weather conspires to keep you indoors, there’s not much to do but bring on the marshmallow sweetened hot drinks and lose yourself in a good book or two. I’ve read two novels recently that you might be interested in yourselves, if you’ve not read them already. The first is a whimsical retelling of…

  • Spring Starter Wardrobe. Kettles and Kettle Bells.

    Perth people, is it just me or is this weather messing with your minds too?  The sunny days we had last week had me rushing out to find some cooler (in both senses of the word) clothes  My current uniform of fleece zip up tops, mom jeans and hiking shoes just aren’t cutting it out here…

  • PM Speedos. Bachelor Food.

    It’s a brave new world we’re in, Australia. PM Speedos (sorry, couldn’t resist) is our new leader and while marriage equality and humane border protection policy will the be postponed indefinitely, there will be hopefully be good things like political stability and a better bottom line for the budget without cuts to health, education and…

  • Election Eve Energy.

    It was a bit touch and go there for a while this morning but thanks to this extra large TGIF (morning) coffee, I’ve now been able to rejoin the rest of Australia as we get through what we have to do on election eve. Which for me involved a trip to the bank and pushing…

  • Life Comes Together When the Weather Gets Better.

    In the immortal words of Miss Marcia Hines…..   Now that’s what I’m talking about! We did it. Something happened between my weather whinging and your words of hope to create these endless blue skies and softly sunlit days that Perth is currently being blessed with. It never ceases to amaze me how life seems…

  • Still Searching For Spring. Cooking With YouTube.

    Perth, you’re doing your darnedest to hide spring from the suburbs aren’t you? The flowers at Araluen are meant to be on schedule to bloom radiantly this month but what about the rest of us?       The branches of the trees at my local pub / cafe were still looking decidedly bare at…