Gotta love a boyfriend who drops over on a Tuesday night to fix your kitchen cupboard door and your grey roots. Well, you don't gotta, but I'm pretty stoked. The cupboard door fell off last week, while I’ve been sporting an impressive swathe of regrowth. DD answered my distress call and trekked south to ensure... Continue Reading →

If there had been a pandemic when I was a kid, I don’t think I’d have noticed many changes to my life. I grew up in Newcastle in the ‘70s. Lives were much smaller back then. Our most exotic family holidays were a couple of trips to Surfers Paradise. The rest of my school breaks... Continue Reading →

My mornings are very relaxed these days - I don’t need to get ready for work and the kids no longer require lifts to far-flung bus stops for school. So I start each day with a relaxed scroll through my phone in bed, then I walk the dogs to my local coffee shop. I will... Continue Reading →

Forget the wheels falling off ... my kitchen cupboard door fell off on Wednesday night and that was it for me. I was soooooooooo grumpy for the next 12 hours. It literally just came off in my hands when I was unpacking the dishwasher. I'm not entirely sure why I was sooooooooooo grumpy about it.... Continue Reading →

There are so many rules in NSW these days, I'm having trouble deciding whether I'm following them correctly. The wowsers would say it's easy to follow the rules during hard lockdown: just stay home. But we've been in lockdown for a loooooong time now, and we're going slightly kooky at home. For example, I published... Continue Reading →