I feel oddly Grinch-like about Christmas this year. It is on my naughty list. I keep muttering about the transactional nature of gift giving. It feels like a box ticking exercise, as we all frantically prepare to hand each other goods of approximately the same value. I don't like being asked what I want as... Continue Reading →

Seasoned readers of HouseGoesHome will know just how exciting this news is .... I bought a new car yesterday!!!!!! It's still on a ship in the middle of the Pacific Ocean somewhere, but I should take delivery of it before Christmas. I wasn't expecting to buy a new car yesterday. I thought there were nine-month... Continue Reading →

"On behalf of Moët Hennessy, we invite you to the official launch of The Ardbeg Peat Mie ... the only pie in Australia that requires proof-of-age to eat." Moët. Hennessy. Ardbeg. Pie. All in the same sentence. How could I resist those words? So I caught the light rail and a bus from work to... Continue Reading →

I read two things yesterday that blew me away. I will start with the really cool one. Australia's first complete plesiosaur fossil has been discovered in outback Queensland! Yep, I was a dinosaur nerd when I was in primary school. Palaeontologists unearthed the complete fossil of the plesiosaur near the remote western Queensland town of... Continue Reading →

Becoming a dog owner is a slippery slope. You start by naming the first one something traditional, like Charlie. Then you get creative with the second one and name them something non-traditional, like Bilbo. OK, maybe that's just me. Pretty soon you find yourself coming home after work and cooing "Hello my little Princess Poochie... Continue Reading →

Look what I built last night! I am in love with this clever creation from Mimosa. It slots together in a flash, like IKEA should in theory but never does in practice. I bought two pieces - a one seater and a three seater - and connected them. I was keen for a corner lounge,... Continue Reading →

I finally got a new furniture purchase to fit up the stairs to my new apartment. Naturally, it wasn't without its dramas. The delivery men arrived two hours after their allotted 11-2pm timeslot, which was a bummer as I'd been offered a ticket to Open For Lunch. If I had have known my enormous cabinet... Continue Reading →

I was a bit devastated to wake up to the news yesterday that Fleetwood Mac's Christine McVie had died at age 79. I love Fleetwood Mac and was lucky enough to finally see them in concert in 2019. DD and I rate it as one of our favourite live performances. Vale Chrissie. The rest of... Continue Reading →

Let me start by apologising to all the smokers who are reading this blog post that I am about to offend. You stink. There's a chain smoker who lives on the ground floor of my apartment block. I hear him coughing up a lung in the middle of the night. He's not that old, maybe... Continue Reading →

Starry-eyed me thought moving to an apartment would lessen the weight of responsibility that adulthood brings, but it is still a heavy burden when you are a single parent with two dogs and two kids. Well, it’s been three kids for the past week, as the eldest's friend has been staying over. There is nothing... Continue Reading →