the end was just the beginning
It's my dad's 73rd birthday today. Wow, where have the years gone? I thought I'd mark the occasion with a photo from the olden days, when he was a studly twenty-something and I was a chubby little beach cherub. Cute huh? My dad was pretty cool when I was a kid. He'd play endless games... Continue Reading →
See how my bunny looks dead in this photo ... relax, he's just chilling out in his favourite spot on our Persian rug. But I wanted to kill him yesterday when I wandered into the family room to discover him doing THIS to my sofa. Normally I know when he's being naughty because it's accompanied... Continue Reading →
Now and then I make the mistake of read the letters page of the newspaper. I really should stop - all it does is make my blood boil and my jaw clench. Latest example: The Sydney Morning Herald ran a story last week about the lack of after-school places for kids in OSHS (Out of... Continue Reading →
There I was having a lazy trawl around the gossip sites on Sunday morning when BOOM I spotted Charles Saatchi's divorce statement. Such a despicable man. Nigella's husband files for divorce A few short weeks after celebrity chef Nigella Lawson's husband was photographed grabbing her throat during an argument in a restaurant, Charles Saatchi has... Continue Reading →
I started the week with this sinking realisation: "We had our neighbours over on Sunday. Not the noisy ones, they’ve thankfully moved far, far away. Or the ones who invited me to dinner and I disgraced myself by getting drunk and spewing in their bathroom between entree and main. And not the ones with the phantom baby ... The ones whose mail I... Continue Reading →
I love celebrating Christmas in July ... I happened across a post about how we celebrated the occasion last year in the Household and was swept away on a wave of nostalgia. We had a Christmas tree twinkling in the living room and lots of holly scattered around the house (ouch!). Even the bathroom had a Santa... Continue Reading →
My fetish for all things edible and Southern continues unabated following the Martha Stewart-esque wedding I attended in Charleston earlier this year (check out the pics here and here). So when I had my sister, her boyfriend and some old friends from Newie coming over for drinks and nibbles last Sunday I decided to head... Continue Reading →
What did you blink in Hollywood this week? Heaps, actually - two weddings, two babies and 3 Independence Day bikini selfies ... just to name a few of the fluffy bits I loved! Read on for all my favourite moments ... Following last week's Supreme Court's decision to legalise gay marriage in California, Doctor Who starJohn Barrowman (Captain... Continue Reading →
Remember Anthony LaPaglia, the Aussie actor who made it big in the US with a starring role in the TV series Without A Trace? More recently - aside from appearing in in the political thriller Balibo back in 2009 - he's been better known as The Slap and Underbelly star Jonathan LaPaglia's older brother. That's Hollywood for... Continue Reading →
Husband sent me several very annoying text messages while I was at work yesterday. The first one said: "Woken by my beautiful girls at 9.30am - I could get used to the school holidays." He later informed me that the youngest had tried to wake him earlier without success. She'd poked him and then lay... Continue Reading →
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