Shimmer and glitter.  It’s everywhere.  Maybe it’s this Californian sun or maybe it’s the endless walls of mirrors that all the buildings downtown appear to be constructed from but this is a photo straight off my phone from yesterday morning. The Ritz Carlton, JB Marriott, Staples Center and the Microsoft Theatre in DTLA. No filter. …

Hello again. As you might have gathered from my Instagram, I’ve been Out and About here in LA.  The places I’ve been and the eating I’ve done.  It’s been an amazing break and I’d love to share what I’ve been up to with you.  The only downside is that I have photos.  Hundreds of them…

I said goodbye to the quiet order of Camarillo this morning with its immaculate and eerily empty sidewalks and its perfectly hard boiled eggs, or ‘shell eggs’ as Master SSG prefers to call them.  Except for a lone jogger on Sunday morning, I appeared to be the only person out and about putting the pavement…

Good morning from Camarillo, California. Where I’ve mastered the in-room coffee machine and used it to make endless cups of tea.  Sadly, there was no room for a kettle in my suitcase after all but there you have it. I’ve promised Master SSG that I’d bring Tiger (you might recognize him as Tigger with a…

As someone who is well and truly into her adult years, I’d like to think that I’ve pretty much gotten the kindness thing sorted.  I know how to speak and act kindly and I also know when a word or an act of kindness has been extended towards me.  But I struggled when it came…

Just to be clear, I am trying to be 100% focused on the task at hand which is to pack and arrange for myself to get to the airport Saturday.  I’ve had today at home and it was meant to be a day of packing and planning. But.  Life happened in the form of this sunrise…

Working through the weekend always throws me.  They’ve been one of the ‘perks’ of my job ever since the year dot so you’d think I’d have figured out life the week after them by now.  You’d think. What actually happens is that I run around like a sleep deprived (and headless) chicken trying to catch…

My most favourite weather?  That’s a no-brainer. Summer.  In Sydney. Hand on heart, here’s something to love about every aspect of a Sydney summer. That cool change at the end of a sweltering day.  A little reward for surviving the oppressive heat of the day with good grace.  If it’s been a humid hot kind…

It’s been pleasantly uneventful around here. Life’s been ticking along to the tock of my beloved set of routines and ‘to-dos’ for the week.  I’m heading into that last week of work before I get on that plane to LA and the anticipation has given me a much needed second wind to get things done.…

It’s been a week of revisiting and repurposing for me.  The summer break has proven to be the ideal opportunity to declutter, streamline and take stock of all the things I already own.  My makeup stash was one of the targets of my conscious decluttering.  I’m a much more considered consumer of cosmetics than I…