Month: October 2016

  • Life This Week 31/10/2016: November Goals. Goodful.

    Life This Week 31/10/2016: November Goals.  Goodful.

    It’s Halloween today, Melbourne Cup tomorrow and I don’t have a thing planned for either.  It’s Party Central around here. To me, these last few weeks before December starts are weeks I like to spend getting ready for Christmas, Preschooler SSG’s birthday and New Years.  November is all about the slow build up to all…

  • The Last Week of October.

    The Last Week of October.

    Can you feel it in the air?  Our being this close to the end of the year, I mean.  This is the last weekend of October which means it will be then November with her gentle ways of reminding you that summer and then Christmas aren’t far and then…. December. How’s your week of October…

  • Lovin’ Life 27/10/2016: Same But Different.

    It’s been an off the beaten track kind of week.  Last minute routine changes, alternate routes to familiar destinations – that kind of thing.  The good thing about all this change has been the chance to explore my world using a different mode of transport and also to observe its dynamics at a different time…

  • Don’t Give Up Your Day Job….

    Don’t Give Up Your Day Job….

    It’s a well known fact that this blog loves a bit of celebrity gloss, goss and sparkle.  I’ve referenced outfits, reviewed memoirs, shared a bit of Carpool Karaoke (stop the press… Lady Gaga is carpooling this week!!) and even gotten a bit misty eyed about celeb relationships from back in the good old days… What…

  • Life This Week: Two Months ‘Til Christmas Eve.

    Life This Week: Two Months ‘Til Christmas Eve.

    Hello, happy Monday and welcome to everyone who’s following along with Denyse’s Life This Week blogging series.  Today’s theme is all about Christmas and how it’s only two months ’til Christmas Eve. I never used to get too caught up with Christmas preparations until December.  Invitations for parties would often come through in November, I’d…

  • Lovin’ Life 23/10/2016: A Highlights Reel.

    Lovin’ Life 23/10/2016: A Highlights Reel.

    This week’s Lovin’ Life highlights reel looks a little something like this: The days have mostly been warm and sunny but the mornings have been a bit crisp.  It’s the kind of weather that has called for a denim jacket to be casually slipped on as I head out the door to work.  I love…

  • Friday Drinks #2: VBxTarget, COAR and Other Things.

    Friday Drinks #2: VBxTarget, COAR and Other Things.

    I call these posts ‘Friday Drinks’ because they’re a fun way to end the week.  No considered discussions, no cohesive themes and no intelligent analysis of the big issues.  Just a Daily Tele style take on the various things that have happened in my bubble of the world this week. Reading the Daily Tele (the…

  • Wynyard Walk and Barangaroo South.

    Wynyard Walk and Barangaroo South.

    If I’d only done a little reading about Barangaroo before taking Preschooler SSG for a little walk around yesterday then it would be highly likely that I’d have more to report back to you today besides a photo essay of Wynyard Walk, the sparkling office towers and beautiful new eateries of Barangaroo South.  It turns…

  • Boundaries and Consent.

    Boundaries and Consent.

    The irony of the timing of today’s post is not lost on me.  After a rash of ‘mummy blogger’ type posts, I bring you a few of my thoughts and reactions to this opinion piece from the New York Times written by another self labelled ‘mummy blogger’ on why she’s decided to stop writing about her…

  • A Day at Taronga Zoo.

    There are those days where the only way to walk to preschool is to do so in the company of your new monkey called Purple. Your mum might have wanted you to call him Prince but to you, he’s Purple and you love him so much you wear him like an infinity scarf to bed…