the end was just the beginning
There I was having a lazy trawl around the gossip sites on Sunday morning when BOOM I spotted Charles Saatchi's divorce statement. Such a despicable man. Nigella's husband files for divorce A few short weeks after celebrity chef Nigella Lawson's husband was photographed grabbing her throat during an argument in a restaurant, Charles Saatchi has... Continue Reading →
I started the week with this sinking realisation: "We had our neighbours over on Sunday. Not the noisy ones, they’ve thankfully moved far, far away. Or the ones who invited me to dinner and I disgraced myself by getting drunk and spewing in their bathroom between entree and main. And not the ones with the phantom baby ... The ones whose mail I... Continue Reading →
I love celebrating Christmas in July ... I happened across a post about how we celebrated the occasion last year in the Household and was swept away on a wave of nostalgia. We had a Christmas tree twinkling in the living room and lots of holly scattered around the house (ouch!). Even the bathroom had a Santa... Continue Reading →
My fetish for all things edible and Southern continues unabated following the Martha Stewart-esque wedding I attended in Charleston earlier this year (check out the pics here and here). So when I had my sister, her boyfriend and some old friends from Newie coming over for drinks and nibbles last Sunday I decided to head... Continue Reading →
What did you blink in Hollywood this week? Heaps, actually - two weddings, two babies and 3 Independence Day bikini selfies ... just to name a few of the fluffy bits I loved! Read on for all my favourite moments ... Following last week's Supreme Court's decision to legalise gay marriage in California, Doctor Who starJohn Barrowman (Captain... Continue Reading →
Remember Anthony LaPaglia, the Aussie actor who made it big in the US with a starring role in the TV series Without A Trace? More recently - aside from appearing in in the political thriller Balibo back in 2009 - he's been better known as The Slap and Underbelly star Jonathan LaPaglia's older brother. That's Hollywood for... Continue Reading →
Husband sent me several very annoying text messages while I was at work yesterday. The first one said: "Woken by my beautiful girls at 9.30am - I could get used to the school holidays." He later informed me that the youngest had tried to wake him earlier without success. She'd poked him and then lay... Continue Reading →
I took the kids and their cousin to Luna Park yesterday. They all have season passes ($99 for two years - best Christmas present EVER), so if you pack snacks and water bottles it's virtually a free day out. Especially if you score one of the 70c an hour metered spots on the harbour -... Continue Reading →
We had our neighbours over on Sunday. Not the noisy ones, they've thankfully moved far, far away. Or the ones who invited me to dinner and I disgraced myself by getting drunk and spewing in their bathroom between entree and main. And not the ones with the phantom baby. The ones whose mail I lost.... Continue Reading →
Celebs spent the weekend confessing, cussing and getting sacked ... all the details here. Alec apologises for his vicious rant Predictably, Alec Baldwin has been forced to apologise for his recent Twitter rant after he was accused by a Daily Mail journalist of using social media during James Gandolfini's memorial service. Some of his tweets contained homophobic... Continue Reading →
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