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Mid Week Debrief. Books. DJs 2.0.
Hello from the back end of Wednesday. Thank you kindly for all your birthday wishes on the blog and elsewhere yesterday. It was lovely hearing from all of you and a reminder of just how many people read the blog and follow on other social media. I’m very touched and humbled. Brick walls in…
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Vale, Robin Williams. Nearly Forty.
For every day that we walk this earth, there will be moments of great joy but also great sadness. Milestones reached but also the daily grind that has to be gotten through to keep things ticking along. We will see things of great beauty but also ugliness. It’s the cycle of life. And most…
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Game Face. Car USBs.
On a good morning, I have 10 minutes to put my game face on for work. Unfortunately, a good 4 of those minutes usually goes to finding the brush, eyeliner or blush I need out of the 8 options for each I have floating around in my makeup tray. I just can’t part with any…
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Hands Across the Water. This and That.
I know there are two sides to every story but what if the emerging details of the other side of the story are even more shocking than what we’ve already heard? I’ll be honest and say that it’s going to take a better person than I to empathize with Gammy’s biological parents. www.independent.co.uk The…
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Everything and Nothing On A Friday.
Apologies in advance for this post which seems to have covered lots of territory with no real structure about it at all. The executive summary is as follows – mandatory PINs, Jeans for Genes, CR versus BR, makeup I’m loving, reflections on motherhood and puff pastry pizza pinwheels. Got all your PINs in order? www.inkfrog.com…
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Books I’ve Been Thinking About Lately.
I’ve been reading all sorts of books lately, most of which I’ve enjoyed immensely. www.beliefnet.com ‘The Fault In Our Stars’ by John Green is such a perfect novel of teenage love and loss that I couldn’t bring myself to watch the film because I was afraid that it would spoil my mental snapshot of the…
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A Sunset In Words. Save the Date.
It was a beautiful sunset in Sydney yesterday evening. No matter where you were under that rose gold sky, all you had to do was look up from what you were doing and just gaze in awe. From your car window in peak hour, through the sunroof, out the back window at home, on your…
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Early Starts. Underground.
Hello and good morning. I’m bright and early this Monday morning. It was one of those working weekends for me but on the up side, it wasn’t as traumatic as I thought it would be. On the even upper side, I’m off the hook for the next seven weekends. Not that any of us actually…
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Returning to the Routine. Makeup Misses.
I’m still here, it’s just that the week seems to have gotten away from me. The mornings have been a blur of waking up, rugging up and heading to work. It’s been a week of trying to re establish Routine. A word steeped in anxiety for the parents of toddlers who’ve just returned from holiday.…
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Lemon Juice and Lemonade Cake.
I’ve been struggling with a cold for the last couple of days and have been missing my get up and go terribly. Honey and lemon for the time poor just flip the lids and squeeze. These squeezy bottles of honey and lemon juice have been my constant companions. I’ve been sipping at mugs of hot…