I've decided I need a long weekend without blogging, so I'm signing off until Tuesday. It's a bit tricky to find inspiration five days a week when working remotely ... and even harder to be funny. DD reckons I was funnier before my spirit was crushed by COVID, health issues, teenager wrangling and horrible bosses.... Continue Reading →
The whole package
It's a bit unfair that the universe decides to give some people the double blessing of talent AND incredible good looks. All those singers who write No.1 songs and the actors who play Oscar winning roles who are super hawt as well … Take Nicholas Hoult ... who wouldn't ... He's ridiculously handsome and also... Continue Reading →
She won’t be told
Not long after I pressed publish on my blog post yesterday, I had a Cat's In The Cradle epiphany about my daughter. My girl is just like me, she's was growing up just like me ... I arrived home at 7.30am after walking the dogs to the cafe for my morning coffee to find my... Continue Reading →
Can’t slow down
I hit the wall on Saturday evening. There were tears. Lots of them. I went to DD’s place for a bit of quiet time after our star-crossed lunch, but it got noisy instead. Well, I got noisy. I collapsed in a blithering mess after making it through a relentless week. The only time I stopped... Continue Reading →
When the stars align
A serendipitous thing happened over the weekend: my friend Nic's birthday fell on National Pisco Sour Day. You’re probably wondering what the hell a pisco is and why it’s sour. Pisco is a grape-distilled spirit that has become the national drink of Peru and a Pisco Sour is a cocktail that mixes the spirit with... Continue Reading →
Performing official duties
It’s not often you get paid to sit in the dark at 9am and watch a live gig. It was so surreal to see Casey Donovan perform yesterday at the announcement of the full line-up for Great Southern Nights. It was my very first official outing as a ministerial corporate communications flack and it was... Continue Reading →
Loving the lemonade
Life has given everyone a few lemons over the last two years. I'm getting better at turning mine into lemonade. I didn't even bat an eyelid when a nice Yorkshireman clambered onto my roof earlier this week and declared my terracotta tiles were shot. Quite literally - that's what they call the little shatter marks... Continue Reading →
How about you?
Did you know more than one million people in NSW have tested positive to COVID? Nationally it’s more than 2.6 million. That’s a lot of dry coughs. There’s so little information out there about the effects of the disease, so I'm wondering - how is your recovery going? It's been more than a month since... Continue Reading →
Non-essential item
I took the kids to a Malaysian restaurant for dinner on Friday night - it's not often that we eat out together as a family, due to social lives, work commitments and financial concerns. As we hooked into our roti chanai, the kids started discussing their plans to move out of home. I should have... Continue Reading →
Changing the date
I’m embarrassed to say that I've arrived a little late to the urgency of the "change the date" debate. So late, in fact, that I went to an Australia Day event this week. Going to Australia Day events is frowned upon in many circles, but I've been so distracted over the past few years that... Continue Reading →
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