This week’s Lovin’ Life is devoted to a miraculous moment. The one in which I found my work swipe card.  In my car and on the third time I’d inspected the sides of the front seats with my iPhone flashlight.  The discovery brought me feelings of both joy and relief. Joy because I’d be able…

The rain’s finally come and with it. the haze has finally lifted.  In the wake of bushfires elsewhere in the state, Sydney’s taken quite a hit in the air quality stakes recently.  Even healthy lunged people like me have felt that twitch in their lungs.  I’ve also felt the pollution on my skin as I’ve…

I couldn’t narrow it down to just one colour this week.  It’s November, after all.  The unofficial start of an endless spring / summer of good times and celebration in Sydney.  These are the colours I’ve seen and loved this week. The disco colours of Master SSG’s 7th birthday party invitations… Seven.  Gulp. The late…

And breathe.   It’s the weekend.  And not before time. I might be fresh off some holidays but that was largely irrelevant when the full force of Real Life hit my world this week.  Faulty power outlets, the car needing a service, a lost work swipe card, forgotten swimming gear needing to be urgently couriered to…

What.  A.  Month.  In the nicest possible way.  It still feels like it was all a dream, even as I put together this post and added my photos.  Paris via Doha, Kiama and not to mention all the wonderful family time I also had in between.  The excitement and spectacle have given me a much…

Halloween and Valentine’s Day traditionally rate at very similar levels on my radar which is barely.  As you probably already know, I embrace practically every other commercialized holiday on the Australian calendar of such days but H and V Days leave me cold.  While there are chocolates and lollies related to trick or treating, the…

A look back on the week that was. An indulgent, sit down coffee at Garcon between school drop off and the official start of the working day. Chocolate crackles and snow cones on the astroturf after school on Friday. It was a school fundraising afternoon that went well into the afternoon. So we stayed for…

It’s quite the life, isn’t it?  One weekend it’s flying home so Sydney from Paris via Doha and the next it’s hitting the wide open roads of New South Wales’ finest motorways and highways headed for a weekend at the beach in Kiama Downs. We began, bright (the sky, not necessarily me personally) and early…

As promised, I’m returning to normal programming.  No more dreamy posts about my adventures in Paris or being in transit in Doha and no more photos of both extremely photogenic locations. I’m back at work happy.  With the return to the busyness, my colleagues, the thinking and the low key drama. The landscape, sky and…