I am not sporty. I don’t like playing it. I don’t like watching it. And yet there I was at Allianz Stadium on Sunday, cheering on the Rugby 7s. I scored a couple of free tickets and took DD along, as he enjoys a spot of rugby. It wasn't my first experience watching a match,... Continue Reading →

I finally got my new car - woo hoo! It's a Subaru XV. All hail the Queen XV! Long may she reign. The car salesman spent 30 minutes taking me through all her buttons and functions on Friday afternoon. After he explained each one I intoned "well, I won't be using that one" or "I... Continue Reading →

There are many things I could have done with my spare time on the public holiday, but I chose to spend it searching for a desk online. It adds to me wasting 500 million hours searching for a desk online over the previously weeks and months. Once I get fixated on something I can’t let... Continue Reading →

I am not brand loyal and I love a bargain. When I need dishwasher tablets or bacon or grated cheese, I choose the one that is on sale. My local Woolies doesn’t usually have much on sale because the local clientele are prepared to pay whatever. So when we ran out of body wash and... Continue Reading →

Things are starting to come together at Chez HouseGoesHome. The electrician arrived yesterday to install my new lights. The ones that were previously in the apartment were fake stainless steel or fake aluminium or fake something and starting to rust, so they've all been flung. I am a bit worried that I have been too... Continue Reading →

How could I say no to an invitation from Cointreau to sip Margaritas at a festival of French food, drinks and music? Impossible n'est pas français! The event was called So Frenchy So Chic. I hadn’t heard of it before, but it attracted quite the crowd of fashionably dressed types to Bicentennial Park in Glebe... Continue Reading →

I love it when a getaway exceeds expectations. We’ve had a fantastic time this week on the South Coast. I booked a holiday house in Gerringong on the recommendation of the youngest, who is a huge fan of the sleepy village after a few trips there with her dad. Fortunately Google Maps had it wrong... Continue Reading →

Communication may be sporadic over the next week because I am relocating to a holiday spot, where I will be working half days. This is not ideal for someone who really needs a whole week off, but I am at a critical point in a project, so I had to compromise. Relocating to a holiday... Continue Reading →

Wednesday night was one of those infuriating ones where I was bone tired but couldn't get to sleep. It wasn't helped by Bilbo the moxie barking at regular intervals from his bed in the laundry. He doesn't normally bark in the middle of the night, but I stupidly ignored the signs that something might be... Continue Reading →

There’s a quote by author Martin Amis that appears regularly on HouseGoesHome. It’s about ageing and goes like this .., “As the 50th birthday approaches, you get the sense that your life is thinning out, and will continue to thin out, until it thins out into nothing. And you sometimes say to yourself: That went... Continue Reading →