the end was just the beginning
I've been missing my Hollywood fix on HouseGoesHome, so here's today's installment of HouseGoesHollywood ... Hugh Jackman opened his heart on the Katie show this week, discussing the adoption of his children, son Oscar, 12, and daughter Ava, 7, and the trauma of his wife Deborra Lee's miscarriages. "To be clear, Deb and I always wanted to adopt. So that was... Continue Reading →
Social media freaks me out. Everything is so incredibly public - people blithely share their lives with the entire world. Myself included ... I think that's what scares me most. Writing this virtual "diary" - that absolutely anyone can read - will have to come back and bite me one day. Hang on, I just... Continue Reading →
Husband and I ate this dish all the time before the Sprogs. It reminds him of his childhood - lots of tinned fishy casseroles. No tinned fishy casseroles in my childhood - we were strictly a chops and veg family. I've been avoiding serving it to the Sprogs, as I could hear the complaints from... Continue Reading →
Things I remember about infants school: learning to sing ‘Frere Jacques’, poking around in drains for coins to buy 6-cent packets of Chickadees from the canteen, being mortified that I couldn't pronounce “choir” during a reading test with the principal (couldn’t understand why it wasn’t choy-er), sitting on painted circles drinking warm milk out of glass... Continue Reading →
You know how jail is like a holiday in Surfer's Paradise, with luxury balconies and palm trees and summer breezes and cordial with ice in it? Well, get ready to be outraged, because it's even more five-star at Christmas. I'm surprised anyone ever wants to leave. I mean, you wake on Christmas Day on your... Continue Reading →
I've been experimenting with the 20 calorie noodles again. Aside from waking ravenous at 4am, I'm a total convert. If I could just stop eating potato wedges at parties, they might even lead to weight loss. Recipe: Sambal prawn noodles 1 tablespoon peanut or rice bran oil 400g green garlic prawns (got mine in a... Continue Reading →
Santa photos are a bit of a tradition in my family. My mum made sure every Christmas was documented on an old bloke's lap. Actually, now that I look through the photo albums, she appears to have lost interest around 1976, which would have been when I was eight. Come to think of it, that's... Continue Reading →
Husband won't let me sell the house so I had to find something else dramatic to do. It's become a bit of a pattern. My crazy way of dealing with high-stress situations. So I went to the hairdresser and told him to cut my hair off. I emphasized that the change needed to be dramatic... Continue Reading →
When the weather warms, my desire to live beside the sea intensifies. So I typed in "Avalon" and "less than $1.2million" into Domain last night and some gorgeous stuff came up. Yes, yes, I know ... it's too far away. I'd only have to hop in the car and head halfway to an open house to... Continue Reading →
Fortunately most of my Christmas shopping was done before I got sacked. Unfortunately I put it all on our credit card in anticipation of fortnightly pay checks ... The only gift that hasn't been bought is one for me from Husband. I told him it really wasn't necessary because I wasn't making any effort with him... Continue Reading →
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