Two thirds of the way through winter has got to be the sweet spot of the season.  There’s been plenty of time to cocoon, comfort eat and layer your clothing excessively.  Around now, the days begin to get that little bit longer, the sun (when it does shine) has a tantalizing bit of warmth to its…

Basically, today has been brought to you by the words ‘Crazy’ and ‘Crazier’ both of which are subsidiaries of the ‘One Of Those Days’ corporation. I know.  It’s hard to know what’s for me and what’s for the patient in this trolley… I’ve just returned home after receiving The Call from daycare.  The one about…

It’s been a long time in the hoping and wishing for the planets to align but it finally happened.  My drive back to the old ‘hood to check out Cav & Co, the new cafe venture by the team behind an old favourite of mine, Cavalicious. The team have relocated to new premises in what…

Hurry up, spring. The trees that line my street are starting to lose their bare branched look and the soft pinks and purples of spring are beginning to appear in their flowers.   The sudden appearance of all this colour and light has made me as excited for spring as I am for Christmas (a…

Baking.  It’s one of those winter things, isn’t it? Though it is getting to that time of the season when I’m trying (halfheartedly) to be a little calorie conscious with the baked goods.  Frozen berries in with the muffin batter rather than chocolate, going fifty fifty with wholemeal and white plain flours.  But then I…

Exciting times have descended upon SSG Manor once more. The dinner that cleared the fridge at SSG Manor 2.0 Wednesday night. The kitchen bench hosted an interesting midweek dinner featuring leftover baked salmon, chopped celery and the last almost limp leaves of a large bag of spinach.  All served on a few toasted slices of…

Today’s post takes the blog to an emotional territory it (very fortunately) hasn’t had to delve into recently very much at all.  Its theme is grief and dying.  As always, identities have been obscured and the facts submerged a little.  I also got a bit teary writing it.  Sorry. Carol and Therese are two strong,…

Winter, it’s always a been a bit love/hate/love between us, hasn’t it?  I love that your crisp mornings and sunrises are so beautiful but I hate that those same mornings make it so hard to find my get up and go from under my doona and then I’m back to loving you because when I…

I bet you never really saw me as a horse or pony person, did you? via pinterest Gotcha.  I’m not one at all.  What I do admire is a good pony tail.  The ones humans wear their own (or someone/thing else’s thanks to hair extensions and hair pieces) in.  But they’ve always eluded me with…

Cheers to the weekend, everybody. One of my beloved uni besties brought me home these champagne flavoured Pocky from her last trip to Japan.  Words just cannot do them justice.  Remember when Lindt toyed around with the champagne flavoured Lindor balls?  And how they weren’t all that….  Well, these Pocky actually taste of champagne in…