Dear NSW Government Revenue, I am writing about your email to me regarding my penalty notices for driving an unregistered vehicle and not having a validated green slip. You say you "considered the circumstances" I presented and determined my penalties should still apply. You tell me that "driving an unregistered vehicle is illegal and potentially... Continue Reading →

The coming-of-teen-age birthday celebration went well: much fun and very little sleep was had by all. DD graciously provided his living room for the overnight event, requested due to its size and proximity to the beach. The girly gaggle went for a swim while DD and my ex - who'd helped transport the guests -... Continue Reading →

Humans are strange beings. My blog is hosted on a platform called WordPress. It has a dashboard that gives lots of statistics on how many people have clicked on various posts, what social media channels referred them to your site, that sort of thing. It also tells you the weird and wonderful Google searches people... Continue Reading →

Every day seems to be ONE OF THOSE DAYS at the moment. But yesterday was a killer. It started with me turning the house upside down looking for a front-door key after the eldest accidentally dropped the spare family one down a brick cavity. Don't ask, too hard to explain. The eldest and the youngest... Continue Reading →

I have a dodgy sacrum. Back when I was a crazy chicken lady, two of my chicks were pecking on the deck when a storm hit. I scooped up a chick in each hand, ran into the house and slipped on the wet floor. What happened next is known in physio circles as a "splits... Continue Reading →

I work from home on Fridays. It comes in handy when an exciting booze story breaks overnight - I can jump out of bed and start typing, without having to worry about showering, cleaning my teeth, getting dressed and scooting up to the office by 9am. That's what happened last Friday when Lion announced it... Continue Reading →

This may be a new overscheduling record for me ... I stayed at DD's on Saturday night as a rare treat before he flew to Korea yesterday for work. We set the alarm for 6am so we could have coffee, watch the sunrise and go for a beach swim before my 8am pump class. We... Continue Reading →

Mornings are pretty hectic in the Household as three of us scramble off in different directions. I took things up a notch yesterday when I needed to be at work by 6.45am for breakfast event at Luna Park. The guest speakers at The Drinks Association Network Breakfast were PwC's Paul von Kesmark and Birger Maekelburger,... Continue Reading →

Aileen Weintraub writes at HuffPost: "The symptoms were subtle at first: insomnia, a racing heart, a lost word, sometimes a wrong word. But within months there was no denying it. Soon enough there were panic attacks, sobbing fits and that verboten emotion of middle-aged women ― rage." She's talking about perimenopause and when I read... Continue Reading →

I'm a bit low rent and my standards are slipping with age. I was stoked to find a Bacon & Egg McMuffin in my fridge yesterday morning. I figured my friends Megz and Tracy must have accidentally left it behind, so I texted to check whether it would kill me ... nope, it had been... Continue Reading →