Spring so far. Blood Orange San Pellegrino and Tasty Cheese Rice Cakes.  The kind of meal that really knocks a cold on its head. Another cold but I tend to get over them quicker when the sun’s about and I’ve eaten the right things.  This might look like a whole heap of empty calories to…

My glory days of getting into the city for Vogue’s Fashion’s Night Out (VFNO) have been and gone. I’m swapping sneaky glasses of in store champagne for an illicit bottle of coke zero as I’ve logged on as virtual attendee. www.metalicus.com And  by virtual attendee, I mean I’ve taken advantage of some early VFNO promotions online.…

Title: ‘Butterfly’.   Medium: paper, feathers, cotton wool and bedazzler embellishments. Artist: Preschooler SSG. Location: a wall of my office at work. Title: ‘So It’s Not Spring Just Yet’ Background: I genuinely thought that Tuesday was the last day of winter and that today was the first of September….  Technicque: so I gave myself some…

And just like that, we’ve had our last day of winter.  Can you believe it?  Spring has nearly sprung. Spring excitement was everywhere around me today.  Or maybe it was that infectious enthusiasm of mine making it look that way. Artichokes artfully arranged. Elegant eggplants. Cheap children’s Croc-offs. Doesn’t the change of season put that…

Even Harry Potter needs to use the lift every once in a while. And even Harry Potter’s wand can’t make those lifts come any faster. It was Preschooler SSG’s first Book Week this year.  Celebrations at his preschool were spread over the whole week to accomodate the fact that most of the children don’t attend…

All it took to turn today’s weather around was me squeezing some limes in the kitchen for my salad dressing this morning. I mean seriously, after all the rain we’ve had this week coupled with the ominous grey clouds already in the sky as I started juicing, how else can we explain the 360 degree…

I’m very comfortable with the fact that it’s going to be Friday tomorrow.  The weekend is also in my sights.  We’re catching up with our good friends from mothers group on Saturday and Sunday is going to be proudly brought to you by the words ‘low’ and ‘activity’. Today, meanwhile, was all about finding the…

Heeeelllllloooooooooo!!!!!!  I’m bellowing because it’s raining so hard around here I don’t think you’d be able to hear (okay, read) me otherwise. We’re in the midst of another east coast low and pops of colour in the landscape of grey black skies and inky puddled roads are few, far between and savoured when they’re chanced…

Yesterday was definitely a top drawer Monday. While I did get to work in once piece, it was on about 4 hours sleep thanks to a sick preschooler and the fun times that are working a Sunday in late winter. The top drawer of my desk contains a rescue remedy cocktail of bits and pieces…

It’s a simple lovin’ life post today.  The sun is shining outside, the day ahead is free of any formal commitments and I’m sitting here in front of my computer dressed for a day of pottering and I’m just enjoying looking out through the French doors of the study and seeing sun, green leaves and…