I was feeling a bit off on Tuesday night. I couldn’t get to sleep because the bit offness was roiling around inside me. I was convinced I had COVID. Half of Sydney seems to have it at the moment. I woke up yesterday feeling exhausted and funny in the stomach, with a swollen, itchy lip.... Continue Reading →
Slight miscalculation
I didn't blog yesterday for two reasons. Reason one: I went for a walk with my friend Mel at 7pm on Monday night. We haven't walked for a while and I had a brain snap about her moving to a house that’s a bit further away. We started from her new place and proceeded to... Continue Reading →
That was wild!
I get to do some crazy stuff in my role as a booze news reporter, but last Thursday night was one of the wildest. After receiving zero invitations to events over the last few months, four landed in my inbox … all for February 22. One was for World Margarita Day, one was for the... Continue Reading →
That was awkward
I had a very awkward experience on the bus yesterday. It involved me carrying a satellite dish on public transport, as you do. The satellite dish belongs to a colleague who purchased it so he could work remotely while crossing the Nullarbor in a Kombi Van, as you do. And it's been gathering dust ever... Continue Reading →
No more excuses
My new reality hit me last night when I arrived home from work. The eldest was out, the youngest was in the middle of O Week and I was left to cook dinner for one while flicking through cruise brochures. After making excuses to myself for years about being too busy with parental duties to... Continue Reading →
How can it be 40 years?
Little did I realise when I was writing yesterday's blog post about feeling old that I had missed the 40th anniversary of Footloose. How can it be 40 years?! Footloose was a big one for teenaged me. From the opening scenes I was completely obsessed with both the movie and Kevin Bacon. Kev played Ren... Continue Reading →
Who am I kidding?
It's funny how we think our kids are still children at 17, when we regarded ourselves as being fully fledged adults at that age. Well, I shouldn't speak for everyone on that score ... It's funny how I regard ... My youngest daughter and I were born in March and started school at age 4,... Continue Reading →
That was too close
I had a brush with death yesterday. It scared me so much that I was still shaking 30 minutes after it happened. I was crossing the suburban street behind my apartment block when a driver became frustrated with how slowly the car in front of him was going. He swerved out onto the wrong side... Continue Reading →
What’s love got to do with it?
Did you celebrate Valentine's Day? I did not. Though I saw lots of blokes piling onto buses carrying long-stemmed red roses home to their beloveds. And I am beside myself over the news that the Prime Minister proposed to his partner Jodie Haydon yesterday. They are engaged to be married, with Anthony Albanese writing “she... Continue Reading →
Damn, I forgot
Yesterday was so hectic that I forgot to buy a ticket in the $20 million Lotto draw. It is a terrible pity because I'd already picked out my new house, which is currently on the market in Mona Vale ... Oh. My. Giddy. Aunt … It's a corker. Location. Location. Location ... I happened to... Continue Reading →