the end was just the beginning
I'm still weeping as I write this. My beautiful feathered friends are gone. My heart is in pieces and I so desperately want it not to be true. Please let me go home this afternoon and discover it's some terrible prank. But I'll never again see their beady little eyes staring in my kitchen window... Continue Reading →
Flying to Melbourne for the weekend less than a week after getting home from our Northern NSW jaunt isn't the most genius planning we've ever done in the Household ... But it's worked out remarkably well. Melbourne is home to The Cousins and the eldest is a member of The Young Australian Broadway Chorus, who... Continue Reading →
My favourite celebrity couple - Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard - have asked their fans to boycott magazines that pay for photographs of celebrity children. And, believe it or not, I'm with them all the way. Dax tweeted earlier this week: "Please boycott magazines that run pics of 'celebrity children.' They shouldn't be punished for who their parents... Continue Reading →
I still get slightly maudlin when I think about all the awesome food I'm missing since we moved back to Oz from Singapore: the amazing curries on banana leaves in Little India, the chicken rice on Maxwell Road, the roti prata, the chilli crab with steamed buns at East Coast Seafood, the char kway teow... Continue Reading →
Where do I begin? I want to get this right ... Do I start waaaaay back in 1980, as I sat watching Countdown and saw THIS and ABBA suddenly lost their magic for me ... (And simultaneously discovered ... at age 13 ... what hormones could do to a girl ...) Or do I fast... Continue Reading →
The youngest and I were walking the dog yesterday morning when we stumbled across the most amazing/horrifying thing. We have form in this area (I See Dead Things), so I was a little worried about how the youngest would handle it, but she was merely curious. OK ... as we were walking past a house... Continue Reading →
The Grammys? I know .... they don't usually feature high on my celebrity must-see list either ... but once I saw GIFs of Yoko Ono dancing in the crowd and Pink's amazing acrobatics on stage I was hooked. So indulge me by checking out these great moments from the night. PS I promise I'll cool... Continue Reading →
The loveliest man house/pet sitted for me while I was away. His name is Glen. Glen was my senior writer when I edited Woman's Day. He was the nicest, most loyal employee an editor could hope to have ... best of all he also delivered amazing interviews every week for the mag. (The pic above... Continue Reading →
Here's a little Australia Day love ... celebrity style (via Instagram, Twitter, WhoSay etc) ... ... Miranda Kerr: "Sending lots of love to all my fellow Australians! We're so blessed with such a beautiful country!#happyaustraliaday" Natalie Bassingthwaite: "Hope u are all enjoying this brilliant day.. Happy Australia Day everyone mwah xx" Ariel Winter: The Modern... Continue Reading →
I'm hopeless at sleeping at other people's houses ... All those strange noises and unfamiliar pillows and having to share a bed with a seven-year-old with really itchy eczema ... So I decided to take a crude, over-the-counter elephant tranquilizer-style sleeping pill on the last night of my far north coast sojourn. Big mistake. Because... Continue Reading →
