It’s been a week of little moments. We attempted and conquered our first 500 piece jigsaw together.  After all that time thinking I wasn’t a jigsaw kind of person.  Taking advantage of the momentum, there’s another puzzle coming our way via Amazon this week. These four got together for a natter and some scooter racing.…

It’s nothing special or fancy but this week I’m loving just sitting in my backyard feeling the warmth of the winter sun on my face and hands. The lawn needs a bit of a trim (after I’ve seen to its blanket of leaves). I’ve neglected a few (most) of the planters on the verandah. But…

Life this week…. The bare-branched, arching trees of winter and the last of the leaves of autumn. It’s only taken until the end of autumn for me to pause and really see the faded golds, russets and burnt orange hues of the leaves.  Better late than never. On a more practical note, we’re heading into…

I’m going to miss the rhythm of this somewhat crazy ‘keep on keeping on’ rhythm of life that the virus imposed upon me all those weeks ago.  The quiet roads, the under scheduled weekdays, the home-bodied-ness focus of each week, the discovery of simpler things as a source of immense joy.  Australia has done an…

Toasties, jaffles – whatever you know them as – do we all agree that they are Good with a capital ‘G’? There are toasties you prepare for by purchasing their ingredients with the express purpose of sandwich assembly, there are standard issue toasties you might make for your resident 7 year old for breakfast, there…

Sydney, you didn’t do too badly for the first day of winter. I was greeted with a string of rainbows on the footpath as I ran on Monday. Being a Days Off Monday, I had all the time in the world to see the sights.  Or sites as the case may be.  It’s not every…

The things I’ve seen this week.  A kaleidoscope of colours, climates and subjects.  Life really isn’t as mundane and predictable as you think it is. A chocolate freckle for afternoon tea to celebrate my being at school pick up well before 5pm for a change. My shopping from the little grocery store down the road…

May has been a month of little things.  Sydney is making those first tentative steps towards reclaiming our pre-Covid19 lives back.  On the one hand, it’s been an amazing achievement by both the government and the public in getting us so quickly to this point on the curve but there have some elements of isolation…

It’s blowing a gale in Sydney today. These cockatoos have the right idea – taking in the might of the wind over the water at Rose Bay from the safety of these apartments.  They are pretty much perfectly socially distanced, aren’t they? When the weather’s like this, self care is a fine balance between taking…

And I’ve gone and done it again. Found myself a new crime series peopled with characters whose chemistry I will not be able to put from my mind until I’ve read every one of their shared adventures. ‘Painting in the Shadows‘ is the second instalment of the Alex Clayton art mystery series by Katherine Kovacic,…