Month: March 2020

  • Life This Week 30/3/2020: Chocolate

    Life This Week 30/3/2020: Chocolate

    I don’t think there’s ever really a bad time for chocolate. It heals and it goes with practically everything.  Including Jatz crackers and a cuppa. It lends itself splendidly to dramatic chocolate fountains at ritzy buffets and it can also express its artistic side as a medium for chocolate art. Chocolate is enjoyed all over…

  • Lovin’ Life 26/3/2020: Homemade Fried Rice.

    Lovin’ Life 26/3/2020: Homemade Fried Rice.

    This week, I’m loving homemade fried rice. Usually, a dish made on autopilot from leftovers in the fridge and freezer plus a few fresh eggs and specially seasoned rice (I add enough soy sauce and sesame oil to give my rice glisten, a rich brownness and that intoxicating fragrance of sesame oil) – this week’s…

  • Life This Week 23/3/2020: Out and About.

    Life This Week 23/3/2020: Out and About.

    In this strange new world of ours, even the concept of being ‘out and about’ has been turned on its head.  The seemingly rare opportunities to experience the little things of our old, ‘normal’ world are moments to be celebrated.  ‘Normal’ seems like decades, rather than weeks ago to me. Without further ado…  a few…

  • Lovin’ Life 19/3/2020: Five Things

    Lovin’ Life 19/3/2020: Five Things

    Things that have put a smile on my dial this week: 1.  Proper, actual, ‘chapter books’.  I’m reading these with Master SSG.  They were favourites from my own childhood. 2.  The humble Milk Arrowroot thickly spread with butter and creamed honey.  So simple but so good. 3.  Rainbows. I hope they are a good omen…

  • Keeping Up With …. COVID-19.

    Keeping Up With …. COVID-19.

    It’s back, or more precisely (since it never really left) – it’s gained a freakish momentum.  A life of its own.  It’s so thick in the air you could cut it with that proverbial knife.  That sense of impending doom, that rim of anxiety that seems to edge practically every aspect of our daily lives…

  • Life This Week 16/3/2020: My Neighbourhood.

    Life This Week 16/3/2020: My Neighbourhood.

    My neighbourhood.  There isn’t just one word, feeling or image that defines all that it means to me.  It’s both a physical home and an emotional retreat to return to from work, travels near and far, adventures good and bad. It’s a little beach I can walk to and have a little think and a…

  • Lovin’ Life 12/3/2020: Five Things.

    Lovin’ Life 12/3/2020: Five Things.

    This week, I’m lovin’: Homemade bread which I baked in my trusty slow cooker before browning up the crust in my equally indispensable benchtop convection oven.  I used this recipe from Baked By An Introvert’s blog.  I like how readily available the ingredients are and that it is a no-knead recipe.  Bonus tip: pop a…

  • Life This Week 9/3/2020: Share Your Snaps.

    Life This Week 9/3/2020: Share Your Snaps.

    This week’s snaps: An eyelash curler someone thoughtfully put on the wall next the etrance to our work carpark.  Which leads to the question of how it came to be there.  I have full respect for anyone who can check let alone do their makeup in the car on the way to work. Mardi Gras…

  • Lovin’ Life 5/3/2020: Preparedness.

    Lovin’ Life 5/3/2020: Preparedness.

    This week I’m grateful, perhaps even lovin’ the privilege of being able to plan and prepare my little household for whatever consequences Sydney will suffer in the event that a coronavirus pandemic is declared in Australia (link to a sensible and practical article from the ABC).   I’m aware that I sound dramatic and possibly even crazy…

  • Life This Week 2/3/2020: Taking Stock

    Life This Week 2/3/2020: Taking Stock

    It’s been a grim start to the year on so many levels.  Natural disasters, infections and our actions towards the more vulnerable members of our society.  So a warning right here regarding references today to domestic violence. Making : travel plans for the second half of the year.  The best kind of plans to be…