Month: July 2017

  • Life This Week 31/7/2017: Winter.

    Life This Week 31/7/2017: Winter.

    Winter, it’s always a been a bit love/hate/love between us, hasn’t it?  I love that your crisp mornings and sunrises are so beautiful but I hate that those same mornings make it so hard to find my get up and go from under my doona and then I’m back to loving you because when I…

  • Perfect Ponies and Other Things.

    Perfect Ponies and Other Things.

    I bet you never really saw me as a horse or pony person, did you? via pinterest Gotcha.  I’m not one at all.  What I do admire is a good pony tail.  The ones humans wear their own (or someone/thing else’s thanks to hair extensions and hair pieces) in.  But they’ve always eluded me with…

  • Cheers to the Weekend. The Big Issues.

    Cheers to the Weekend.  The Big Issues.

    Cheers to the weekend, everybody. One of my beloved uni besties brought me home these champagne flavoured Pocky from her last trip to Japan.  Words just cannot do them justice.  Remember when Lindt toyed around with the champagne flavoured Lindor balls?  And how they weren’t all that….  Well, these Pocky actually taste of champagne in…

  • Lovin’ LIfe 27/7/2017: Cooking With Coles.

    Lovin’ LIfe 27/7/2017: Cooking With Coles.

    Today’s love is a simple one. The July 2017 edition of Coles’ in store magazine.  It’s got Curtis Stone on the cover and the promise of sub $10 meals for the family inside.  So many of the recipes look both doable and delicious.  Instagram also agrees with quite a few of my friends already raving…

  • Tuesday. And That’s A No to ‘No Sugar’.

    Tuesday.  And That’s A No to ‘No Sugar’.

    Keeping it real world today. Beginning with this flat lay of real world mum life.  A stack of freebie magazines from the supermarket, laminated tear outs from said magazines, this morning’s at home yoga sequence, stationery and a couple of Paw Patrol pups.  Speaking of whom, what’s the low down on those pups?  Why do…

  • Life This Week 24/7/2017: Can’t Live Without….

    Life This Week 24/7/2017: Can’t Live Without….

    Clocks.  I know.  How exciting.  How fun.  How life affirming.  How profound (actually, they can be just not in the way I can’t live without them).   How … practical and highly scheduled. One of those peculiar joys in my life is getting a new desk clock.  Which happens more often than you’d think because…

  • The Yin and Yang of Winter. Flik, Victoria and Their Sleek Technique.

    The Yin and Yang of Winter.  Flik, Victoria and Their Sleek Technique.

    The days might be short, the nights best for snuggling under a doona and the mornings best slept in for as much as possible but the pace is hectic right now at SSG Manor 2.0 and its surrounds.  Such is the yin and yang of my life in winter. Scarf – Zabavushka from Hermes, jacket…

  • Friday Drinks #14: Recipe Feedback. Thank You.

    Friday Drinks #14: Recipe Feedback.  Thank You.

    It really was only last weekend that I was standing on the balcony of an Alpine chic serviced apartment with a sensible pour of Moet with strawberries taking in this view of Lake Jindabyne. In hindsight, I should’ve had the drink after attempting to operate that work of the devil that is a combined washer…

  • Lovin’ Life 20/7/2017: Next Time, Canberra.

    Lovin’ Life 20/7/2017: Next Time, Canberra.

    I have a confession. It’s taken me 40 years to visit our nation’s capital for the first time.  Even more embarrassingly,  all I did in a cultural sense is drive past the Canberra Museum and Gallery before stepping straight into the pretty swish (and very warm) Canberra Centre’s Big W five minutes before closing.  May…

  • The Snow.

    The Snow.

    And after an epic 5 hour drive home/ test of endurance / battle of wills just like that, we are home.  Preschooler SSG’s treasures from our weekend away, as found in the bottom of my handbag.  His Grill’d lamb model only has three legs.  It’s going to be a very long day…. Our bags are…