Cold snaps are challenging enough to endure on their own.     But when your hot water system blows up as well, you’re going to need more of an intervention then just slipping on some fauxpard uggs and hoping that you’ve got a pot large enough to boil the water you’ll need for a…

The sun’s out in Perth this afternoon but it wasn’t the case earlier on. There were clouds, grey skies and heavy lashings of rain as far as the eye could see. From my vantage point at the dining table, it made good sense to plan a day of indoor activities.   The local Koko Black…

Do you ever have those days where you feel that a little effort is in order when it comes to your peanut butter fix? Eating it by the spoonful straight from the jar is fine. Eating it on toast with honey is even better. However, how good would it be to go that extra mile…

    You can’t leave it too long between trips to Ikea and you can’t pass up the chance to visit Ikea’s largest store in the southern hemisphere. It’s so large I got lost trying to find the car park entrance. But once inside, the store layout was reassuringly similar to the Ikea at Rhodes.…

    When it comes to making scones, I’m a bit of a dunce. I just can’t help overdoing things. I over knead the dough, I over flour each time I cut out my scone discs and I aways go overboard with the addition of dried fruit. I’ve always been a bit envious of my…

  Have you ever had one of those days where, if you could, you’d put the kettle on and make a large mug of tea for google and the internet in general? Because it must be such hard and draining work, neither of them would have time to scratch themselves, let alone scrabble around for…

I don’t know where I’d be without my daily fix of the Mail Online. Whether it’s celebrity gossip, the low down on retail trends in the UK or even…. major world news (listed in order of priority, of course) – you can count on the Mail to tell it like how they think it should…

      What’s not to love about a kitchen appliance that’s still going strong in its forties? Meet my mum’s retrotastic Sanyo Slow Cooker. It’s got all the features I love most about appliances from that era. That orange heating unit, the brown enamelled cooking bowl, the fabric coats power cord, even the font…

  Well ahoy there! It’s felt like ages since I’ve last posted.   I’ve been on strict rations with my mobile data allowance these last few days which explains my absence from the blog. Too much fancy wifi-ing via my mobile phone by the looks of things. Fortunately, I’m now a day and a half…

  As invigorating as my foreshore walks have been, they’ve not been kind to my hair. My tresses (though dreadlocks may be the more accurate descriptor for what my wash and wear wavy hair looks like these days) are that awkward shoulder length that just pulls back into a pony tail but invariably mostly escapes…