What a difference a day (and a good night’s sleep) makes! It’s been so long since I’ve been truly sleep-deprived (The Toddler Years, if I remember correctly) that fronting up for work on Monday with ‘way less than one hand’s fingers’ worth of sleep totally threw me.  It felt like being hungover and jetlagged simultaneously…

Things that were off the beaten track for me this week: I stumbled upon this VHS videocassette that had been put on the verge for bulk rubbish collection.  It was a sobering moment trying to explain to Master SSG what they are and they did way back in the day.  How can the eighties be…

After the rain and heat that’s battered our city, Sunday was a gift.  Not too hot, not too cold.  The perfect conditions for getting out and about without getting soaked. We stopped for coffee and a cupcake (not pictured as it was eaten well before this photo was taken) in between our morning errands.  The…

Things I’ve done just for me or enjoyed ‘just because’ this week…. Laps at the pool. A coffee after those laps. Discovering the first tomato on the vine I’ve grown from those Woolworths Discovery Garden seeds. Another coffee but this time I found it at a new cafe I discovered on a walk I took…

This week’s interesting but also embarrassing achievement was that I finally (after having moved house five years ago) unpacked that last packing carton. Inside the carton (and still in excellent condition, mind you) were a series of my favourite photos of Master SSG as a baby.  In further interesting developments, I have now hung up…

You have a Sydneysider checking in today so of course all I have to talk about is The Rain. Its ferocity has flooded carparks, caused leaks to spring in more than one roof, wreaked havoc on the traffic and caused all sorts of other interruptions to daily suburban life.  But (such an important ‘but’ that…

It’s a relatively cool, make that perfect 19C in Sydney right now.  Perfect conditions, really, to be waiting with bated breath as the Telstra NBN technician works miracles as he tries to content my house to the promised land of the NBN. Can you believe that only a few days ago we were sweltering through…

And we’re back to reality with a thud.  A hot and sweaty thud, to be precise.  The February heat has well and truly arrived in Sydney and I, for one, am drained by it.  The big challenge in my life right now is finding the get-up and go required for #workingmumlife in weather that’s more…

The first month of a new decade.  That’s quite a bit of pressure, January.  You poor thing. The first day of the new year. And decade.  I’m on that team.  Started as I meant to continue.  Pottering, decluttering, standing my ground and yes … going to Ikea. I wrote today’s date correctly first go.  And…

And just like that, we’re back to our regular programming. School has begun for the year, a tooth has been lost, I figured out how to attach my car line sign to my car The first week back at school. A tableau. and through it all Sydney’s infamous hot humidity has been a faithful companion. …