I have had to give up Nutella. F.O.R.E.VE.R. I know. I had no words either. Because the universe is basically just a massive asshole, I have developed a digestive or immune intolerance to mainly peanuts but other nuts too. Particularly peanut oil. I’ve been having these hideous stomach cramps for …
Well look at that, 3 blog posts in 3 months. One about sushi and two about marathons. Never going to win any awards now am I? I have been the lamest blogger ever. Last weekend I ran the Australian Outback Marathon. A 42km run in the desert around the most …
I eat a lot of sushi rolls because in my head I think they are diet food even though my trainer tells me I could eat chips and it wouldn’t be much different (he takes his carbs slightly more seriously than I do obviously). Every time I go to my …
Last sunday I ran my second London Marathon (VLM) and finished with an enormous smile and an enormous sigh of relief. Although it didn’t quite go smoothly, it was the most amazing day and I loved it. Because I had run the marathon last year I knew what to expect, …
So here I am, back in olde ye London town. I don’t need to tell you all how good it is to be back in my very favourite place on earth. Everything is right in my world again except that my kids are 17,000km’s away, but they are in …
It’s hard to believe it’s been a whole year since I was there but in two weeks I’ll be on a plane en route to London … my favourite place in the world and my spiritual home. I know that sounds corny and makes me a really crap Australian but …
I turned forty two yesterday. I’m very happy being in my forties. I know we all speak about worrying about getting old and how the years are flying by. But I’m pretty sure most of us don’t mind as much as we claim to. Well I don’t. I’ve written about …
After losing an amazing friend in extremely tragic circumstances a few weeks ago, I’m still coming to terms with the anger and sadness I feel surrounding her death. It has made me question many things in my life, which all seem rather petty and insignificant when you compare them to the …
Last saturday I had to take Holly to gymnastics so Rob had the job of taking our middle son to his first soccer grading morning. Rob had a hangover which he did his best to pretend didn’t exist (10 of out of 10 for your stellar performance by the way, Rob) …
I’m not particularly happy about the grey hair on my head. Or my slowing down metabolism. The wrinkles beside my eyes. My ageing hands. Or the way my knees creak when I walk up stairs. But you know what? When I didn’t have all those things I also didn’t have …
It’s hard to believe a whole year has gone by but here I am back in the swing of training for my second London marathon. I have to admit I’m not as excited about the training part as I was last year. The memory of long hot runs at 4am …
Yesterday I had a text conversation with one of my friends who was having a moan about her sons flicking their bitten off fingernails everywhere and how she’s threatening to fire the cleaner so they have to do the cleaning themselves if they continue to do it. She said she finds them …
We’ve just come home from two and a half weeks away. We spent christmas on a beach about three hours drive south of Sydney which for us is great because packing for that long for a family of six when you have to fly anywhere gets tricky. Being able to just …
Yesterday I was sorting through some old photos and I came across one taken of my then family of five when my middle son was only a few weeks old. I was in a bad way with post natal depression and after he was born was the first time I …
Jude and I were on the news last week. https://au.news.yahoo.com/nsw/video/watch/25668488/gender-wars-toy-boycott-outrage/ I wish I could say it was because of something really huge and important and amazing but it wasn’t exactly about anything I am passionate about. Nevertheless we were on the news and Jude now thinks we are famous. The …