Making : a list and checking it twice.  It’s CHRISTMAS everybody!!!!!  Christmas. Cooking : microwave mac’n’cheese with carrots and fancy butter to ease my mum guilt.  This is one of Master SSG’s favourite school lunches at the moment.  Remember way back in January when I made batches of muffins and pizza wheels for his lunchbox?  Those…

And I’m back with another month of A Sentence (Or Two) A Day.  Just in time for one of my favourite months of the year … November! It’s been a busy month now that I look back upon it.  Work and life in general were both running at fever pitch.  Just to make sure everything…

A box from Mecca Cosmetica is always a thing of joy and beauty to receive but they’re even more of a treat when it’s practically Christmas and you’ve treated yourself to a gift to self. To begin with, the usual tasteful black, cream and pink packaging takes a break for the holidays and its place…

As we head into the silly season with all its (pleasant) excesses of food, drink and material things, there’s a lot to be said for that other luxury the holiday break also affords us.  Days off from our everyday routines and responsibilities to just get out our front door and explore the diverse natural landscapes…

There’s no place like home and I am feeling incredibly grateful to be here right now.   Dry, warm, with the roof still over our heads, the electricity, the car in one piece parked outside and my sense of humour still intact as I read the news (and fake news) coverage of Wild Wednesday.  We’ve endured…

It’s a day off for me, at last, and I am milking it for all it’s worth. Today I’m enjoying things that never get old.  To me, at least.  Take these rose gold clouds of the sunrises at the moment as Exhibit A.  They have been my reward for keeping at those longer runs this…

Summer in Sydney is a towfer: my favourite season in my favourite (adopted) Australian city. Summer also means many things to me. Summer is: Vivid colour and bold prints.  Even better if it’s all happening on your beach towel.  At the beach. It’s rose gold sunrises that you catch on your morning run. It’s kicking…

I’ve got my eye on the calendar and it’s only 10 more days until I can put up the Christmas tree but in the meantime,  I’ve made inroads into my Christmas gifting.  School finishes for us on December 6 and most of that last week is half days.  Master SSG was so eager to give…

I’m a sweet tooth so there are several best cakes that I’ve eaten.  They all have one thing in common, though.  They were all made for or served at birthday celebrations.   There’s just a certain something about a cake shared to celebrate a special person in your life.  There’s all the ritual of gathering around…