Today’s love is a simple one. The July 2017 edition of Coles’ in store magazine.  It’s got Curtis Stone on the cover and the promise of sub $10 meals for the family inside.  So many of the recipes look both doable and delicious.  Instagram also agrees with quite a few of my friends already raving…

Keeping it real world today. Beginning with this flat lay of real world mum life.  A stack of freebie magazines from the supermarket, laminated tear outs from said magazines, this morning’s at home yoga sequence, stationery and a couple of Paw Patrol pups.  Speaking of whom, what’s the low down on those pups?  Why do…

Clocks.  I know.  How exciting.  How fun.  How life affirming.  How profound (actually, they can be just not in the way I can’t live without them).   How … practical and highly scheduled. One of those peculiar joys in my life is getting a new desk clock.  Which happens more often than you’d think because…

The days might be short, the nights best for snuggling under a doona and the mornings best slept in for as much as possible but the pace is hectic right now at SSG Manor 2.0 and its surrounds.  Such is the yin and yang of my life in winter. Scarf – Zabavushka from Hermes, jacket…

It really was only last weekend that I was standing on the balcony of an Alpine chic serviced apartment with a sensible pour of Moet with strawberries taking in this view of Lake Jindabyne. In hindsight, I should’ve had the drink after attempting to operate that work of the devil that is a combined washer…

I have a confession. It’s taken me 40 years to visit our nation’s capital for the first time.  Even more embarrassingly,  all I did in a cultural sense is drive past the Canberra Museum and Gallery before stepping straight into the pretty swish (and very warm) Canberra Centre’s Big W five minutes before closing.  May…

And after an epic 5 hour drive home/ test of endurance / battle of wills just like that, we are home.  Preschooler SSG’s treasures from our weekend away, as found in the bottom of my handbag.  His Grill’d lamb model only has three legs.  It’s going to be a very long day…. Our bags are…

If all goes to plan, we’ll be on the road to Jindabyne by the time this post goes live.  Preparation for our two-night stay has been brief but focussed.  I’ve tried to pack as light as I can but needing to be warmly dressed for the snow is thwarting my noble intentions. Preschooler SSG has…

We’ll be in the snow tomorrow!! It’s going to be an early start for the drive but before then there’s much to be packed, planned and prepared.  It’s all going to be happening today. Have a lovely weekend and I’ll be back next week.

With the way the weather’s been lately, I really haven’t been left with much choice but to get out there in those immortal words of Nike and ‘Just do it.’.  Clear blue skies, just the gentlest of breezes every now and then and the mere hint of a chill to the air that’s perfectly tolerable…