Meanwhile from the land of annual / school holiday leave… The seedlings are growing in the manner of newborns.  Literally overnight. I ventured beyond Westfield for lunch and was rewarded with this barbecue pork banh mi for … $5.  That’s practically unheard of for a delicious and filling lunch around this neck of the woods. …

The official start of spring, the final single digit month of the year…. September, you’re pretty special. Spring has sprung and what beautiful weather to usher in the new season. I just met lovely people wherever I went today.   Here. There. Everywhere.  I opened a new block of chocolate for the treats jar today. …

My batteries are recharging as I type this post.   I’m officially at the start of a fortnight and bit’s worth of leave and it feels good.  I don’t know what it is about the pace of my life right now but the school holidays are as much for my benefit as they are for the…

This week I’m loving being an accidental green thumb thanks to Woolworths’ Discovery Garden seedling kits. What started off as Master SSG’s hobby has now become mine. I’m fully invested.  I even bought two of the limited edition sunflower kits – proceeds from their sale goes to a drought relief fund Woolies has set up…

I’m no longer even remotely embarrassed to admit this…. I love being a tourist in my own city. I’m there taking in the view from hotel windows the moment family come to visit and invite (as if I need any persuading) me to meet them where they’re staying. My Perth nephew is as passionate about…

I’m in two minds about how the rain has finally stopped.   It’s wonderful not having to leave the house with an umbrella and it’s positively glorious not being slightly damp from the parts of you the umbrella didn’t protect but our dams! The downpours barely made a difference on that particularly soggy day I checked…

I don’t know why I get as anxious as I do on that Saturday before a race but I do. The conveniently bundled quartets of safety pins at the race bib collection point were a soothing sight. I know that I’m there for the fun of running.  The buzz of being part of a group…

So that rain is Back in Sydney and while this is excellent news for the Warragamba Dam, it’s the humans (myself, specifically) that are struggling. After the magnificence that was Sunday’s weather and that it enabled me to do in the great outdoors, I’ve found myself scuttling from one indoor location to the next all…

Try as I might, I just can’t get life to slow down a bit so that we can both enjoy the wonder that is spring in Sydney.  We’re hurtling to the end of term three (!!), I’m off traveling in just under three weeks (!!), the car’s got to be taken to the panel beaters,…

 Wasn’t the bridge looking absolutely stunning this morning? Fitting, given that it was the Blackmores Bridge Run today. The Bridge Run is the 10K race of the Sydney Running Festival.  Other race options are the marathon, half marathon and a family 3K run.  Both the race bibs and finisher’s medals are clearly colour coded for…