the end was just the beginning
Keeping food up to the kids during the school holidays is exhausting. They're constantly hungry, but offers of a Cruskit with Vegemite or piece of fruit are met with a sneer. Spoilt brats. So I've been researching snack ideas that are big on both taste and novelty. Here are the top 10 bites I'll be... Continue Reading →
It's a lurky life working on magazines. Once upon a time, I handed out lipsticks from work "beauty sales" like candy, walked the red carpet movie premieres, even crammed my extended family into an all-expenses-paid apartment - with live giraffes swaying past the balcony - during a "travel junket" to Disneyworld ... But those perks... Continue Reading →
How was your Christmas Day? Ours was HUGE. Well, I felt huge after eating chocolate almonds, potato chips, cashews, turkey, roast beef, roast potatoes, roast pumpkin, Waldorf salad, mixed salad, gravy, pudding, ice cream and custard. And backing up for leftovers plus an extensive cheese plate a mere four hours later. Then there were the... Continue Reading →
How'd you fare in the gift stakes? I haven't opened mine yet, we're still wading through the excess that Santa delivered. Finding the perfect gift for loved ones is always a little fraught. And I find receiving even trickier, not being the naturally effusive type. Fortunately my relatives put a lot of thought and heart... Continue Reading →
Dear all, It's hard to believe another year has almost gone. And what a hectic one it's been for the Household. Fortunately, aside from the latex Christmas outfit getting that little bit tighter, we're a healthy, happy bunch. But Queen Elizabeth's immortal Annus Horribilis speech does ring in my ears. To quote our monarch, 2012... Continue Reading →
School holidays mean six weeks with occasionally bored, always hungry kids underfoot. Why not kill two birds with one stone and do some pizza decorating - and eating - together. Here are some of my favourite suggestions from around the globe. 1. How fab are these mummy pizzas (above) from Parents.com? 2. Americans love their... Continue Reading →
What do you really want for Christmas? Not the talc and body lotion sets, the new frying pans or the slippers. I'm talking the stuff you could have if you could ask Santa for ANYTHING. I just got tagged in my very first meme by Shambolic Living. Thx Shambles! I'm not quite sure what it... Continue Reading →
Four years ago, I met the real Santa. He was at Santaland, in the Macy’s department store in New York. It had to be him - he had a real beard and everything. At the very least, it was an extremely close relative, like a brother or a nephew or a fifth cousin once removed. Sprog... Continue Reading →
OK, I can't help myself, HouseGoesHollywood is baaaaaack ... until tomorrow ... when it goes on holidays for 10 days ... then hopefully returns in a glamorous new format in the new year, if I get my act together, which I probably won't, so who knows ... Bradley Cooper pranked Ellen DeGeneres on her show... Continue Reading →
A lovely friend invited me to the opening of the Anish Kapoor exhibition at the MCA yesterday. I had no idea who Anish Kapoor was, but I don't get out much so I said yes. It was a media event, featuring a Q&A with the artist and lots of arty farty journalists trying to outdo... Continue Reading →
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