How was your weekend? Mine was such a happy one. It started with a walk on Balmoral Beach with friends on Saturday morning. The beach isn’t far from my new apartment and we jagged a parking metre-free spot just a few blocks up the hill (saving us about $10 per hour). It is the most... Continue Reading →

I am at a point where I know women at wildly different life stages, ranging from those preparing for the birth of their first child through to those awaiting great grandchildren. Meanwhile, my children are teetering on the edge of adulthood and I am betwixt and between. I have been waking in the morning feeling... Continue Reading →

My walls are looking fabulous after Bryan the picture whisperer decorate them with art. It took about three hours for them to all be arranged and hung. I left Bryan to it for the most part because I was on lots of calls for work. I told him to just make it look nice. We... Continue Reading →

I don't generally look in the spam folder of my gmail account, but my accountant said my tax return might be lurking there, so I opened it and guess what? There was a message that said: "Your Email Account was selected for a Donation of $2,500,000.00. Contact us by this email at keramatmirgasanov@gmail.com for more info." I'm... Continue Reading →

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 →