DD texted me from Tokyo with those words yesterday morning. He's sooooo nice about my warts-and-all blathering, especially considering I assured him on our first 'date' that I wouldn't write about him. I told his cousin (who's just started following HouseGoesHome) that the other night and she replied: "He's mentioned every day ... LOL!" It's... Continue Reading →

I've been overthinking again. Worrying about the way HouseGoesHome has transformed into a daily digital diary of my life. You know what I mean ... lots of I did this and this yesterday, blah, blah, blah. It wasn't always that way. On January 6, 2012, I wrote a blog called Murder, Medicine and Motherhood about... Continue Reading →

DD has gone to Tokyo on business, so it's just me and the fur babies this week. I took him to the airport last night - we nibbled on (surprisingly) delicious meatballs and sipped (surprisingly) cheap chardy at Macha, an offshoot of that old-school restaurant Machiavelli. After a cuddle at the express pass entrance he... Continue Reading →

I am not an athletic person. Sure, I go to the gym, but that's a late-in-life development and I stick to stuff that doesn't require much co-ordination. When I was in primary school, teachers made fun of how hopeless I was at sport. They'd do impressions of me flailing about to make my classmates laugh.... Continue Reading →

DD has been trying to teach me to scream into a pillow. Er ... not in a sexual way ...   The screaming-into-a-pillow thing is about releasing my anger without making the neighbours think I'm being murdered. I'm not very good at releasing my anger. I'm a bit like Richard Gere in Pretty Woman. You... Continue Reading →

I have no idea how I grew up in Newcastle and spent years visiting in-laws on the Central Coast, yet never knew Somersby Falls existed. Somersby had always seemed such an in-betweeny place to me - just a turn-off on the freeway during my trips back to Newie. But DD's friends hired a house there for... Continue Reading →

How did you ring in 2016? DD and I crashed a party held by my sister's friends. So many lovely, friendly people and THE BEST slow-cooked beef brisket sliders with mac 'n' cheese and coleslaw. Mmmmmm. At 9pm we nicked off to the harbour to watch the fireworks from DD's favourite secret spot. Before After... Continue Reading →

My brain was a bit fried yesterday, so I was stoked to receive an email from my blogging platform, WordPress, containing HouseGoesHome's annual report. Phew, I thought, no need to come up with a blog topic for today. Here are some of the highlights ... "The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This... Continue Reading →

I am the opposite of spontaneous. I like order and at least a month's notice. DD is very spur-of-the-moment in his approach to life. I have no idea how we ended up together. (Actually, I do, RSVP ... but anyways ...) Case in point: as I sat at my computer working in my sweaty gym... Continue Reading →

What are you having for breakfast this morning? I'm nibbling on pumpkin and goat's cheese risotto as I write this blog. I got up early and cooked myself a batch - I just couldn't face more scrambled eggs, they were making me nauseous. While I was laid up after my pre-Christmas surgical procedure, all I could... Continue Reading →