The tree is packed away, my main source of vitamins for the last weeks has been cherries and we’ve hit that lull between Christmas and the New Year. My heart is saying Happy Festivus Inbetweenus but my mind and body are stuck in the world of work. It’s not all drudgery and sleep deprivation. Opportunities…

That Christmas feeling has crept up on me in the most unexpected ways and in the most unlikely moments.  Long-time readers of the blog will know that Christmas is my holiday.  I embrace the kitsch and the kitchen with passion each year.  I love the gifting and I love the ‘homely’ angle when it comes…

This week I’m loving the light and the view from the top floor of the car park at work…. it’s so calm and peaceful up here it makes the world at ground level look similarly so that the sky was looking so clear today I managed to get this coveted shaded space that’s a little…

 It’s definitely the silly season. I understand completely about the doughnuts, fellow Saturday morning just before Christmas shopper.  Only I wouldn’t have left as many doughnuts behind… There’s so much to be done both at work and in the Christmas lunch prep stakes at this stage of December but sometimes you just have to listen…

The Christmas break is so, so close I can taste it.  Things are starting to wind down, my mind is finally turning to what I’ll be doing for Christmas lunch and the following photos will probably be the last non-holiday photos I’ll be taking for a bit. I am.  Hard.  I found this abandoned highchair…

Things I’ve loved about the last week: Finding my favourite Danish Butter Cookie tins back on the shelves at Woolies, albeit only for days before they sold out again. Kicking back with a coffee on a Saturday morning as the sounds of the tantrums of other people’s toddlers gently jostled the airwaves around me.  I…

It all started when I proudly posted this photo of this meal (the Damn Delicious Taco Bowl recipe, FYI) Instagram. The joys of iPhone predictive text.  Do you know what came out instead of corn chips (I was being smug about not adding them to my taco bowl)?  Cognitive chips. Cognitive chips.  They need to…

It’s the second week of December, Christmas is a fortnight away.  I sound very battle weary in this week’s ‘Taking Stock’ because of both these facts.  It’s been a very therapeutic post to write though and I feel the better for completing that last prompt. Making: space in my wardrobe for all the new dresses…

My favourite intersection on George Street is where The Galeries gazes across to Town Hall. My favourite time of day to look up at Town Hall from George Street is in the evening.  Especially at this time of the year. The clouds and the haze set that sandstone off to golden perfection. I’ve read somewhere…

November is one of those ‘everything but the kitchen sink’ kind of months for me.  There’s that stunning spring-summer weather but there’s also the challenge of juggling work, child and a sudden rush of engagements to fill my usually sparse social diary.  It’s also that stepping stone month to glorious December.  Which might explain the…