Perth, you’re okay.  You’re more than okay.   You’re fresh air, wide open spaces and a sky whose colour and texture changes with the breeze. You’re sleek new finds and proud terraces houses reminding a recently upmarket suburb of its working class roots. You’re new trees that line the perimeter of purposefully built apartments, offices and…

Those who can, SnapChat their lives.  Those who can’t (because they’re too camera awkward) make WordSwags about theirs instead. My love of activewear has been documented here previously however normal life seems to conspire against my being able to wear it all day and ‘just because’.  But then the holidays and minimalist holiday packing came…

I’m still very much in holiday casual mode at the moment.  The fluidity of each day, the sleep-ins, the minimal amount of adulting I have to do each day.  It’s been lovely to take a little break from Sydney and Sydney me this past week.   I’m coming to you this week in a pretty relaxed…

Farewell, first microwave I ever bought.  You were the first major electrical appliance I bought when I moved to Sydney in 2007 (!!).  Eleven years and many memorable moments later, it’s time to say goodbye.  You tripped the mains switch twice in as many weeks so I knew it was time. You’ve been there for…

It’s day three of school holidays and we’re treating ourselves to a day in doing not much at all.  I’ve got this week off from work and a completely unscripted day is just what I need. To help me make good on kicking back indoors for as long as possible today, I’ve dressed for the…

Welcome to our Continental Drift linkup! The reason we are  dabbling at a link up was that we wanted to connect and learn from bloggers from all across the world about their passions and lifestyle.  We will host the  Continental Drift link-up the first of every month.  The concept for myself and my fellow hosts (Mutton Style & Bo’s…

Sun on a Saturday afternoon.  Chores ahead of schedule.  No place in particular to be. The planets aligned for me over the weekend and I could tick all of the above. And guess what I did with myself?  I popped out the back door into the garden and raked the lawn in my red gumboots,…

The Acre in Camperdown is one of my favourite ‘urban farm’ spaces in Sydney.  I first visited it a few years ago when it first opened.  It’s still hard to believe that this eatery / urban farm / community centre used to be a lawn bowls club.  The transformation feels more ‘complete’ now in that the…

There’s one end of the built-in wardrobe in my bedroom that has an element of the mysterious to it.  I never really know what I’m going to find when I open the door and have a rummage around.  Spare party tablecloths, high-risk art supplies (high-risk because of the damage they could inflict if a five-year-old…

Life this week looked like this. In no particular order. Comfort food for a wintery Sunday night.  Roast chicken with all the trimmings is pretty fabulous but so too is a packet of Mi Goreng with bok choy, leftover chicken teriyaki meatballs and extra fried onion on top.  Both have their place in my kitchen…