Month: October 2019

  • Lovin’ Life 31/10/2019: Coming Around To Halloween … Slowly.

    Lovin’ Life 31/10/2019: Coming Around To Halloween … Slowly.

    Halloween and Valentine’s Day traditionally rate at very similar levels on my radar which is barely.  As you probably already know, I embrace practically every other commercialized holiday on the Australian calendar of such days but H and V Days leave me cold.  While there are chocolates and lollies related to trick or treating, the…

  • Life This Week 28/10/2019: My Favourite Book As A Child.

    via Google images If it were humanly possible, seven-year-old me would have teleported myself into the highly detailed pages of Richard Scarry’s picture books.  I’d skip across the pages as an honorary member of the Cat or Pig families exploring Busytown. www.reddit.com There was always so much to find and discover on each page, the…

  • The Week That Was.

    The Week That Was.

    A look back on the week that was. An indulgent, sit down coffee at Garcon between school drop off and the official start of the working day. Chocolate crackles and snow cones on the astroturf after school on Friday. It was a school fundraising afternoon that went well into the afternoon. So we stayed for…

  • Lovin’ Life 24/10/2019: Road Trips and Staycations.

    Lovin’ Life 24/10/2019: Road Trips and Staycations.

    It’s quite the life, isn’t it?  One weekend it’s flying home so Sydney from Paris via Doha and the next it’s hitting the wide open roads of New South Wales’ finest motorways and highways headed for a weekend at the beach in Kiama Downs. We began, bright (the sky, not necessarily me personally) and early…

  • Life This Week 21/10/2019: Home. There’s No Place Like It.

    Life This Week 21/10/2019: Home.  There’s No Place Like It.

    As promised, I’m returning to normal programming.  No more dreamy posts about my adventures in Paris or being in transit in Doha and no more photos of both extremely photogenic locations. I’m back at work happy.  With the return to the busyness, my colleagues, the thinking and the low key drama. The landscape, sky and…

  • The Paris Diaries #9: The Long Journey Home.

    The Paris Diaries #9: The Long Journey Home.

    In real-time, it’s Tuesday, October 15th.   A beautiful spring day, the first day of term and my final day of leave before heading back to work tomorrow.  I’m glad I’ve had these last few days to ease myself back into my routine and also to get over my jet-lag.   The water feature at the Paris…

  • The Paris Diaries #8: The Loire Valley. Chateaux Plural.

    The Paris Diaries #8: The Loire Valley.  Chateaux Plural.

    And just like that, I’m home. That first glimpse of the harbour. That first proper coffee. The sound of the dryer.  The list of chores to get through.  The yoghurt in sensible plastic tubs.  It’s all got to be done, hasn’t it? Speaking of yoghurt. I’m going to miss pulling the foil top off individual…

  • The Paris Diaries #7: Heading Home. Musee Rodin. Grocery Shopping.

    The Paris Diaries #7:  Heading Home.  Musee Rodin.  Grocery Shopping.

    Writing to you today from somewhere just a little different and it is glorious.  There’s so much space, it’s as if I’m travelling by personal house rather than plane.  All the big names have been visited and my suitcase is packed. 50% toys, 45% food and 2% envirobags from favourite local supermarkets to take home…

  • The Paris Diaries #6: Montmartre. My Secret Paris Food Tour.

    The Paris Diaries #6: Montmartre.  My Secret Paris Food Tour.

    It’s my second last full day in Paris.  Already. I don’t know where the time has gone.  Even munching away on a palmier from Paul as I neck a Coke San Sucres isn’t helping me find an answer. I visited Montmartre yesterday.  Got myself there on the Metro and everything too! As you can see…

  • The Paris Diaries #5: Fast Luxury. National Treasures.

    The Paris Diaries #5: Fast Luxury.  National Treasures.

    The Paris effect.  That’s the only reason I have for how it’s taken me this long to slip in a scene from my morning run photo. Airplane pyjama tops as activewear.  A trend that’s yet to break in Paris.  Ditto the activewear everywhere thing.  I do like a challenge though…  I still have a few…