the end was just the beginning
A gossip item popped up at iVillage this week that swept me right back to my Cosmo days. During my tenture as features writer at Cosmopolitan magazine I travelled to Hollywood a few times to organise photo shoots and interviews with celebrities. Now photo shoots with celebrities don't come cheap. Well, the celebrities themselves are... Continue Reading →
Wills and Kate will be parents any day now and royal baby fever is set to sweep the globe. Here's how you can ensure your bub doesn't feel left out (from the sublime to the ridiculous). There's a royal onesie ... Only the finest organic cotton for your baby, combed for softness and comfort at Zazzle. A... Continue Reading →
It's my dad's 73rd birthday today. Wow, where have the years gone? I thought I'd mark the occasion with a photo from the olden days, when he was a studly twenty-something and I was a chubby little beach cherub. Cute huh? My dad was pretty cool when I was a kid. He'd play endless games... Continue Reading →
See how my bunny looks dead in this photo ... relax, he's just chilling out in his favourite spot on our Persian rug. But I wanted to kill him yesterday when I wandered into the family room to discover him doing THIS to my sofa. Normally I know when he's being naughty because it's accompanied... Continue Reading →
Now and then I make the mistake of read the letters page of the newspaper. I really should stop - all it does is make my blood boil and my jaw clench. Latest example: The Sydney Morning Herald ran a story last week about the lack of after-school places for kids in OSHS (Out of... Continue Reading →
There I was having a lazy trawl around the gossip sites on Sunday morning when BOOM I spotted Charles Saatchi's divorce statement. Such a despicable man. Nigella's husband files for divorce A few short weeks after celebrity chef Nigella Lawson's husband was photographed grabbing her throat during an argument in a restaurant, Charles Saatchi has... Continue Reading →
I started the week with this sinking realisation: "We had our neighbours over on Sunday. Not the noisy ones, they’ve thankfully moved far, far away. Or the ones who invited me to dinner and I disgraced myself by getting drunk and spewing in their bathroom between entree and main. And not the ones with the phantom baby ... The ones whose mail I... Continue Reading →
I love celebrating Christmas in July ... I happened across a post about how we celebrated the occasion last year in the Household and was swept away on a wave of nostalgia. We had a Christmas tree twinkling in the living room and lots of holly scattered around the house (ouch!). Even the bathroom had a Santa... Continue Reading →
My fetish for all things edible and Southern continues unabated following the Martha Stewart-esque wedding I attended in Charleston earlier this year (check out the pics here and here). So when I had my sister, her boyfriend and some old friends from Newie coming over for drinks and nibbles last Sunday I decided to head... Continue Reading →
What did you blink in Hollywood this week? Heaps, actually - two weddings, two babies and 3 Independence Day bikini selfies ... just to name a few of the fluffy bits I loved! Read on for all my favourite moments ... Following last week's Supreme Court's decision to legalise gay marriage in California, Doctor Who starJohn Barrowman (Captain... Continue Reading →
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