Ready or not, it looks like the party season has officially begun. The weather’s been amazing, the Christmas decorations are up at Westfields around the country, all my weekends until the new year are pretty much accounted for and I’ve just discovered a makeup tool so life changing I’m amazed I’ve survived this long without…

The phrase ‘travel tales’ conjures up images of exotic locations accessed by plane, train or sea.  It implies a long journey rewarded with long dreamed of experiences quite foreign to your everyday life back home.  Travel tales are the memories you hold on to you as you return home with cases to unpack, the same…

And on the seventh day,  I rose and decided I had to get out there and watch the sun rise over this glorious city. Preferably while running. The skies may have begun the day looking grey and cloudy but the sun eventually won.  It was also the kind of day for making things like double…

SSG Manor 2.0 is officially ready for summer. While I personally am years to never away from being beach body ready,.. our freezer is now stocked with a mix of both Zooper Doopers and marginally better for you Berri Quelches. I do, however, have the makings of ‘beach face’ thanks to this generous Beauty Loop gift…

Today’s post is in praise of my (clean) Marmite jar full of spare Lego pieces and several of the orange brick removal tools that you get with the dollars sets.  Which reminds me, I need to sit down and plan my order for this Christmas’ Festival of the Brick.  The fluid routine of the Christmas…

Saturdays are generally happy days with each one having its own special causes for happiness.  This is how today went for me. It could be a coincidence that I only ever seem to photograph my shopping trolley when its full of fruit and other healthy foods…. I found myself solo at the supermarket around half six…

It’s the middle of October and I’m, rather predictably, feeling a little frazzled and looking a bit like Preschooler SSG’s stuffed toys.  The year’s gone by at breakneck speed.  Nothing major’s happened, it’s just that so much of it has happened and I’ve just been juggling and balancing to keep it all ticking over.  So…

Before I begin today’s post, I’d like to take a paragraph to thank you all for reading and responding to my previous post.  The one I wrote as a letter to my twenty-year-old self.  I really enjoyed writing the post to the point of fangirling myself and rereading it quite a few times (and it’s…

Dear SSG, Hello from the future.  I’m writing to you as a 42 year old and there’s so much that I think you should know both about your life as it is now and what the future will hold. Let’s start with you as you are now.  Congratulations on getting through the hardest year of…