Since starting my blog I’ve become addicted to visiting blogs every morning. I like this for the sense of community I feel from being invited into a part of your lives but also because I love the sneak peek into your kitchens and seeing what you’re putting on your table. I find this inspiring and […]
In My Kitchen, August 2013
August 3, 2013 By 50 Comments
I haven’t done an ‘In My Kitchen’ post for a while; mostly because I didn’t want to bore you with the mundane items that fill my kitchen in order to fill the mouths of hungry uni student and reluctant eight-year olds. Not terribly exciting! But this month I do have a few things worth sharing. […]
Irene Gleeson, the ‘Lioness of Africa’
August 2, 2013 By 25 Comments
A few days ago I was enjoying a quick catch-up with Lorraine and Celia. We were talking about what we’d been up to and I had to let them know that sadly, I’d been to another funeral. ‘Another funeral?’ asked Celia, ‘Wasn’t there just one?’ And I said, ‘No, there’s been two’. And so I […]
Hotly Spiced in Free-Fall
June 23, 2013 By 56 Comments
On Friday night I posted Egg Baskets and…the Sleepover. Two of you managed to comment on that post before it disappeared. That post and all my posts written from February until June 21 disappeared. Poof, they were gone. Celia and Lorraine started sending me urgent texts. With minimal IT knowledge I didn’t know what to […]
Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free Hummingbird Cake
May 7, 2013 By 48 Comments
Recently a few bloggers and I organised a get-together for a Sunday afternoon. We were to catch up at the Radisson Blu Hotel in O’Connell Street, Sydney for a high tea. During the organisational process that incredibly involved 94 group emails, it occurred to us that on the day we were to get together, it […]
The ATAR
January 16, 2013 By 62 Comments
There’s been a surprising outcome to Miss Arabella’s HSC results and it’s causing a bit of tension. And huge disappointment. And grief and anger and tears and exasperation and bewilderment and sleepless nights. But she’s not taking this setback too badly because so far the words, ‘It’s all your fault, mum’, have not been uttered. […]
The 80th Birthday Party
October 22, 2012 By 56 Comments
Over the weekend we had Carl’s father’s 80th birthday celebration. My father-in-law and his wife live interstate but came to Sydney for the event that we hosted in a hired club room that overlooks one of Sydney’s most beautiful beaches. In order to keep the costs down and within our budget we self-catered the event […]
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