Recalibrating as a family post-separation can be unsettling sometimes. I felt guilty yesterday morning, for example, when I left my ex and the kids at home and headed out for the day. It was like I was deserting them and should have hung around so we could spend some quality time together. But spending quality... Continue Reading →

A week containing Friday the 13th AND Valentine's Day is a scary thing ... especially when it's the anniversary of your marriage breaking up. And mine somehow found new dramas to deliver. Fortunately, it's become a bit water off a duck's back. So I was totally whatever when I got a nasty comment yesterday from... Continue Reading →

I'm a teensy bit worried people are going to turn up on my doorstep tonight in three-piece white suits and platform shoes expecting a '70s disco ... Always a risk when you cancel a party. I've chilled a few bottles and put some cabanossi on stand-by ... just in case. I'll also refrain from putting... Continue Reading →

Let's just say yesterday was intense. The nervous anticipation woke me before 5am. There's some stuff I'm not ready to talk about yet, so let's skip through until 1pm when I caught the train to Wahroonga for my gyno appointment and thought "hmmmm, that's weird, I don't remember there being a really long, dark tunnel... Continue Reading →

OK, the past few days have been ... challenging. They've wiped me out, I'm possibly slightly delirious, so I need your help. You see, the youngest has requested THIS as her combined birthday present/party entertainment for her 9th birthday next month ... Buying it on ebay is only slightly more expensive than hiring it. So... Continue Reading →

February 10 really hates me. Last year, my husband announced our marriage was over. This year, in a few hours of pain and panic, I "miscarried" my Mirena. I think the technical term is "expelled" or "rejected" but that sounds too clinical for what happened. It was awful being alone, with two kids asleep in... Continue Reading →

People have been keeping me very entertained since my rant about Fifty Shades of Grey on Saturday. It seems I'm not the only one with a set against the movie ... and book. Nic wrote a comment saying: "I thought it was a book about graphic designers and how their selection on pantones would excite... Continue Reading →

If you do something and don't take a photo of the moment, did it really happen? DD took me kayaking yesterday. But I left my phone in his car, so I have no photographic evidence. As we mourned the lack of camera I started wondering: why are we so obsessed with snapshotting every moment of... Continue Reading →

My life continues to move in mysterious ways. Remember how I cancelled my '70s housewarming? Well I got invited to a '70s birthday party last night. And it was the bulkest fun. The birthday girl had hired an old hall in The Rocks and kitted it out with flashing furniture and bean bags and lots... Continue Reading →

Everywhere I turn there's another bloody ad for that bloody 50 Shades of Grey Movie. And it's driving me insane. I am deeply, irrationally pissed off about it being marketed as a Valentine's Day movie. S&M may be a lot of things, but romantic isn't one of them. Not that I'm a Valentine's Day person,... Continue Reading →