Month: July 2014

  • Books I’ve Been Thinking About Lately.

    I’ve been reading all sorts of books lately, most of which I’ve enjoyed immensely. www.beliefnet.com ‘The Fault In Our Stars’ by John Green is such a perfect novel of teenage love and loss that I couldn’t bring myself to watch the film because I was afraid that it would spoil my mental snapshot of the…

  • A Sunset In Words. Save the Date.

    A Sunset In Words.  Save the Date.

    It was a beautiful sunset in Sydney yesterday evening.  No matter where you were under that rose gold sky, all you had to do was look up from what you were doing and just gaze in awe.  From your car window in peak hour, through the sunroof, out the back window at home, on your…

  • Early Starts. Underground.

    Early Starts.  Underground.

    Hello and good morning.  I’m bright and early this Monday morning. It was one of those working weekends for me but on the up side, it wasn’t as traumatic as I thought it would be.  On the even upper side, I’m off the hook for the next seven weekends.  Not that any of us actually…

  • Returning to the Routine. Makeup Misses.

    Returning to the Routine.  Makeup Misses.

    I’m still here, it’s just that the week seems to have gotten away from me. The mornings have been a blur of waking up, rugging up and heading to work. It’s been a week of trying to re establish Routine.  A word steeped in anxiety for the parents of toddlers who’ve just returned from holiday.…

  • Lemon Juice and Lemonade Cake.

    Lemon Juice and Lemonade Cake.

    I’ve been struggling with a cold for the last couple of days and have been missing my get up and go terribly. Honey and lemon for the time poor just flip the lids and squeeze. These squeezy bottles of honey and lemon juice have been my constant companions.  I’ve been sipping at mugs of hot…

  • More Senseless Loss. Home. Snaps of Holiday Places.

    More Senseless Loss.  Home.  Snaps of Holiday Places.

    As trying as yesterday’s flight home from Perth was for all involved (45 minute total body toddler tantrum that lasted through to touchdown and the entire 20 minutes we were on the runway waiting to disembark), talk of my immense relief at ‘surviving it’ would be clueless and insensitive in light of the tragic news…

  • ‘Confessions of A QANTAS Flight Attendant’ by Owen Beddall. Banana Bread Supreme and Other News From Perth.

    ‘Confessions of A QANTAS Flight Attendant’ by Owen Beddall.  Banana Bread Supreme and Other News From Perth.

    It’s been the second day in a row of staying in with a book and pottering kind of weather in Perth and I’ve made good use of it. www.news.com.au I’ve just finished ‘Confessions of a QANTAS Flight Attendant’by Owen Beddall and thoroughly enjoyed it for what it was.  Beddall dishes the dirt on the famous and…

  • Good To Be Home. The Second Winter.

    Good To Be Home.  The Second Winter.

    It’s good to be home. That familiar masthead on the paper accompanying your pot of tea. Finding the local dairy brand at Woolies. Lunchtime runs by the river in a tank top on account of the warm winter sun (on any day except today). And coffee runs up the road with Toddler SSG on his…

  • Turning That Frown Upside Down.

    Turning That Frown Upside Down.

    I’m all out of deep breaths.  And it’s only Thursday morning.  Work has been crazy and the planets just haven’t aligned themselves for the rest of my life.  The last load of washing I wanted to get done before leaving for Perth?  Got rained on on the line as I drove home from work.  Micro…

  • Faux Fur Finds. Sultana Cake Is the Only Kind of Fruit Cake.

    Faux Fur Finds.  Sultana Cake Is the Only Kind of Fruit Cake.

    It was only this time last week that I was having a little whinge about the lack of faux fur vests of this calibre in women’s sizes. Well, readers, the high street obviously reads this blog and makes my wishes their command because Forcast and Ice have made my dreams come true.  I’m linking to the…