School holiday weekends.  They seem to come around just when you need them the most – even if your child(ren) aren’t quite school aged. They’re a break from the weekend rush to get to wake everyone up, get in that first coffee of the day, then to brave the weekend morning peak hour to swimming…

The times are quiet and uneventful at SSG Manor 2.0 right now.  Mount Washmore has been conquered, the floorboards are free of dirt and grime (from standing height, at least) and I’ve gone so far as to hang tomorrow’s outfit up on the wardrobe door.  Just hope I don’t change my mind and whom I’m…

The winds of change are swirling through the kitchen of SSG Manor.  In a literal sense from the almost daily use of the fan forced oven to roast our vegetables and also metaphorically with the concept of meat free dinners using said roasted veg with flavours more exciting than butter and (sea) salt. You’ve heard me go…

I’m writing to you today on a ‘Getting Stuff Done’ Tuesday.  It started off pretty nippy this morning but the sun is out, the skies are clear and I’ve actually felt the sun herself on my hands as I’ve driven about today.  In an ideal world it would have been sun up to my bare…

Making : it easier to figure out which way up my new pad of Post Its is.  Unless I mark the sticky edge out, I can be guaranteed to start writing the wrong way on them so that I end up sticking my note ‘side on’ rather than right way up. Cooking : soup.  Lots…

I won’t lie.   The debut wearing of my Marni x H+M jacket, necklace by Red Phoenix Emporium. The only reason there was Effort and an Absence of Black Puffer in my outfit on Friday was because I was spending the entire day at work.  Where the corridors and rooms are permanently toasty, the linen…

When you reach that point in winter where the afternoon skies are a clear and piercing blue that matches the coldness in the air, you know that it’s officially the start of black puffer season in the ‘hood. There were rumblings on the streets before but by Thursday, it was black puffer vests and jackets…

Things that the time poor me is loving right now. Waterproof name stamps like this one from Stamptastic .  So much easier than sew in (who does these anymore…. anyone?!?) and iron on labels (which have a nasty habit of peeling off if you’re as much of a dryer devotee as I am).  All you need…

The week in pictures. Bold clashes of colour and design on the discount shelves of Zara Home on Pitt Street. Opening a new box of Maldon Sea Salt Flakes.  There’s something so comforting about its packaging. A new painting by Preschooler SSG for my office.  My office wall collection spans the last year or so…

It’s been a lazy, restorative kind of Sunday here.   We took a brisk walk / scooter to the shops first thing in the morning where I was overjoyed to find Proper Strong Yorkshire Tea.  One hundred bags will only set you back around $6 at Woolies.  You can find Proper Strong in the regular…