#sorrynotsorry if Tuesday aka Day-Off-Tuesday isn’t your personal favourite weekday because it is definitely mine.  Life’s pretty busy at the moment so this weekday off is even more sacred than usual. It seems that the weather agreed with me today as well.  Will you look at all that sun! It was just magic when I…

I love ‘Share Your Snaps’ time on Life This Week.  Work and life have been hectic and it’s been challenging summoning up the concentration and creativity to write anything coherent.  It’s times like these that prompts based on photos are a lifeline to bloggers like me caught up between the opposing forces of life’s commitments…

Five things this week that have made me smile: finally going for a swim with my Apple Watch.  I was hoping that it would give me an accurate distance but alas, I entered my swim as an outdoor open swim rather than one that took place in an indoor pool.  The devil is in the…

Contentment is …. witnessing the sun rise over another fabulous day in this beautiful city I call home.  The colours of the sky, the freshness to the air, the boats gently bobbing on the water that sense of collective anticipation of others who were out and about with me as they began their commute, morning…

We’re in peak hygge mode here at SSG Manor 2.0.  It’s blowing a gale outside and despite the sun, there’s a chill to the mid-morning air. Even the stuffed toys are allegedly feeling it.  I’ve just had a request to swaddle the rays and a meerkat together.  I’m suspending my disbelief because we are, after…

It’s been just over a month since I got an Apple Watch and I don’t know how I lived before it came into my life.   Initially, the features that got my attention related to activity tracking.  It’s mind-blowing just how much physiological data a mainstream watch can calculate from the information it obtains from your…

Firstly, some photos of my autumn that could have come directly from central casting. Gold and rust-hued leaves on creepers, tree branches and the footpaths beneath them. I don’t think anyone ever gets completely on top of the leaves of autumn but I like the look of what gets left behind.  It makes the streets…

Making: basil pesto with the massive crop of basil that I grew all on my very own!  The recipe is from a Jamie Oliver cookbook. I’m using the pesto for a pesto chicken lunch prep idea I found on the internet. Cooking: tray bake meals for lunch.  An hour at the weekend from start to finish…

This week has literally flown by. And I’m happy to say that I’ve landed on my feet.  There’s been no time for jetlag. My mum, aunty and I have analyzed George, Amal and their bombshell from all possible angles over a mug of tea… Can you believe this is what the world looks like in…

I’m definitely one of those people for whom the journey means as much as the destination. I love that added element of excitement/drama that foreign airports add to a trip.   From the legendary glacial speed it takes to get processed at LAX to the quirks of local life you get a glimpse of by people…