Archives for September 2013

Sydney’s Hilton Hotel

Last Saturday night was the annual awards night for the company Carl works for.  The black tie event was being held in the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton Hotel and as we knew we were in for a big night, we decided to indulge in a hotel sleepover. Accommodation in Sydney’s CBD hotels isn’t cheap. […]

Scoop Wholefoods Master Class in Making Peanut Butter

Alfie asks a lot of questions. So many questions. It can be exhausting and sometimes I reach my threshold and find myself saying, ‘We’re now going to have half an hour where you don’t ask me any questions.  I’m setting the timer.’  And in that half hour Alfie will find other people to target. Like […]

Tree Top Adventure Park, Sydney

A few weeks ago I won a double pass to Sydney’s Tree Top Adventure Park on Seana’s blog, Sydney, Kids, Food and Travel. I was thrilled because the school holidays were approaching and I thought this would be a terrific outing for my little guy but Alfie was even more thrilled because he just loves […]

The Burger Shed, Mosman

There’s a burger restaurant in Mosman that opened a few weeks ago that I’ve been keen to try. It’s located on the corner of Military Road and Raglan Street and in recent years the site has had a chequered history where a revolving door of businesses have opened then closed, barely before the locals have […]

Vodka O Birthday Cake

Arabella has just celebrated her 19th birthday.  While this was not a birthday carrying the weight of other milestone birthdays like an 18th or 21st, it still had huge significance to Arabella who was keen to ensure the date didn’t slip by without a loud splash. We booked a clubhouse on Balmoral Beach that has […]

Two Poor Little Girls

Over the last few weeks there has been an increasingly appalling wafting of halitosis coming from my sweet little Rosie.  She has had trouble with her teeth in the past and late Friday night she was up on the couch with me and we reached ‘situation critical’.  I could no longer abide her on the […]

A Fundraiser For The Royal Flying Doctor Service

The Royal Flying Doctor Service was the dream of a Presbyterian Minister, Rev John Flynn, who was very concerned for the pioneers living in remote and rural areas where there were just two doctors trying to cover around two million square kilometres.  He wanted a better health service for these people and in 1928 his […]

The Hunter Wine Bar, Mosman

Mosman has always been a hive of activity by day as shoppers venture into the boutiques and sip coffee in the cafes, but at night it’s been like a ghost town as residents shift out of the suburb to do their dining elsewhere. But recently things have been changing in Mosman and only for the […]

Pressed Brick Sandwich and…The Disappearing Ham

Around a decade ago and before my youngest child was born, I used to host Christmas Dinner for everyone in Carl’s family.  And I didn’t mind.  It was something I loved to do and not least because it spared me from going to his parents’ house and (I say in the nicest possible way), suffering […]

The 30-Year Reunion

Back in the early 80’s my sisters and I attended the local high school.  At the end of Year 10 my older sister won a scholarship to a fairly prestigious private boy’s school that opened its doors to female students for the final two years of school.  My sister’s experience was a positive one so […]