This week’s highlight reel. www.goodreads.com I’m reading ‘The Vacationers‘ by Emma Straub.  As if I need anything else to get me into the forthcoming holiday vibe.  ‘The Vacationers’ is about couples of all kinds and families when they go away over the summer.  While the sun, new accents, abundance of food and the break from…

I won’t lie, my Mondays are seldom pretty, often long and hectic but, so far, I’ve survived each and every one of them and lived to see another day. To break it down a bit, no make that a lot… here’s what my typical Mondays look like. The day begins at an ungodly hour, a…

Don’t get me wrong, there’s so much to love about winter food.  Soups, pies, curries and roasts but the fruit?  It’s all a bit of the same old same old.  The apples, pears, and bananas that we get year round don’t seem as enticing without things like watermelon and stone fruit to break up the monotony.…

It’s been a pretty hectic couple of days for the table tops of SSG Manor 2.0. There are times when there’s nothing better in life than leaning back in your chair, hoisting your heels up onto the dining table chair directly opposite you and wallowing in a random array of things.  Catalogues, sample sachets, more…

May is officially the month where I start feeling that the year is flying by too quickly.  Sure I might mutter a few ‘March already!?!?’-s and ‘I can’t believe it’s Easter!’-s here and there but when the calendar turns over to May, it all gets serious for me.  May turns into June, the official halfway…

 It’s Friday and we have so much to discuss. I knew I wore this scarf and wide grin to work for a reason… my tickets for Texas came through today and it’s only 17 sleeps until I fly.  Behind that wide smile and cabin crew-esque  scarf there’s a bit of mild panicking going on.  Visa…

What’s not to love about life when your Sunday morning looks a little like this? Preschooler SSG and I took advantage of the last Sunday of the April school holidays and used it to visit Taronga Zoo via the ferry. The weather was perfect and we started the day with a sneaky bottle of soft…

It’s been a special Tuesday. Not just because breakfast involved several defrosted hot cross buns. Or because I managed to make it onto a bus and then straight onto a train platform without either spilling my coffee or being asked to dispose of it. Today was an extra special Tuesday because it was Preschooler SSG’s…

Say what you like about the price premium and slick marketing of Apple products but at the end of the day, they tend to work the moment you take the out of those sleek boxes, charge them up and turn them on.  There’s been a technology upgrade here at SSG Manor 2.0.  My previous cheap…

It’s hard not to love life when it’s the second short working week you’ve had in a row, isn’t it?   Aside from the short weeks, I’m loving: Finally getting on top of all the photos in my iPhone.  I’ve been meaning to continue scrapbooking my favourites from where I left off … 3 years…