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 →

I love it when a getaway exceeds expectations. We’ve had a fantastic time this week on the South Coast. I booked a holiday house in Gerringong on the recommendation of the youngest, who is a huge fan of the sleepy village after a few trips there with her dad. Fortunately Google Maps had it wrong... Continue Reading →

Wednesday night was one of those infuriating ones where I was bone tired but couldn't get to sleep. It wasn't helped by Bilbo the moxie barking at regular intervals from his bed in the laundry. He doesn't normally bark in the middle of the night, but I stupidly ignored the signs that something might be... Continue Reading →

There’s a quote by author Martin Amis that appears regularly on HouseGoesHome. It’s about ageing and goes like this .., “As the 50th birthday approaches, you get the sense that your life is thinning out, and will continue to thin out, until it thins out into nothing. And you sometimes say to yourself: That went... Continue Reading →

DD and I have seen some incredible concerts since we started dating eight years ago. We love watching live music together and I often speculate whether our retirement should be spent flying to destination gigs around the world. Our latest adventure was a little closer to home - we were very kindly given two tickets... Continue Reading →

I made a little girl's dream come true on Saturday when I organised for her to meet Bluey and Bingo. I must confess to having a teensy stirring of desire to become a grandmother as I saw her joyfully watch Bluey and Bingo on stage before taking her backstage to meet her idols. The look... Continue Reading →