For either Christmas or his birthday – I forget which – Riley was given one of those inflatable, floating remote control sharks that set the internet alight with amusing videos. It was the kind of novelty purchase that my husband can be relied upon making either very late in the night or after a few…
This conversation is totally imaginary, but totally plausible; thus, like all fiction, making it at least as true as anything that has actually taken place. Karen: Thank you for agreeing to meet with me to discuss the potential of my PhD candidacy. Academic Dude (AD): No problem at all … [added under breath] … it’s what…
This is another recipe along the lines of the whoopie pies from last week – jumping on the bandwagon, so to speak, and I’m looking straight at Adriano Zumbo to blame here – although there’s a slight difference in this case as I have eaten many macarons in my time and none of them, none of them,…
We go through spells and phases; ups and downs, travelling along in spite of the terrain. But sometimes … there’s a point where you go ‘Okay, enough’ and have a crying jag such as has not been seen outside a screening of The Notebook. Does this sound familiar? That’s been me lately! Fun, right? I’m a…
My latest post is up over at iVillage – a quick reflection on grand final weekends, as sport was such a fixture in my home as I grew up. Here’s the link if you’d like a read. We spent the day with friends, us leaving at the nine-hour mark. We only live a few minutes…
Whoopie pies have become something of a flash fad in the baking world this past year and I’ve looked at them from a distance, considering if I’d like them or not. Seeing they look like an unfrozen icecream sandwich I thought ‘Yes, I’m sure they are tasty but can I be bothered making them?’ Then…
Updated: with an additional point* I was going to add yesterday, but forgot. I got caught up a little in the hysteria last week (what hysteria? this) after reading about what was going on, when I logged into Feedburner, as I do, on occasion, to see my subscriber count at zero. I CAN HAZ NO…
Life / September 24th, 2012
1) You save money. Yes, if you have ever managed to find a skirt on the rack from Sportsgirl or Country Road that still has the original store tags and is less than half the price then the benefits (and buzz!) of finding a bargain are a given. This doesn’t always happen, however, without doing…
Adam and I have been together now for over fifteen happy years. Sure, there’s been bad patches, but they’ve been far outweighed by the good. In university, for example, we were the couple told most often to go “get a room.” It’s not all sunshine, however. Oh, no. Check out last night for example. {Withheld…
