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Starlight Stories

Not sponsored Last night we went to the Lend Lease Darling Quarter Theatre in Darling Harbour to a function for Rob’s work. They are a huge sponsor of the Starlight Foundation and there was a production at the theatre about inspirational stories of people who’ve been touched by the magnificent work …

Why I’m not a Food Blogger

I can’t bake. I like cooking but I don’t bake cakes, biscuits, slices or anything sweet apart from Pavlova and especially nothing involving pastry. I’m frightened of pastry. I can make packet cakes if they are just the ones where you add a couple of eggs and some oil and …

The Stupid Diet Wagon

I swear there is something wrong with me. Actually I know there is, that’s well established both clinically and socially but when it comes to food there is ABSOLUTELY without doubt a very large and significant defect. Anyone who knows me or who follows my Facebook page will know that …

Wrecking Ball(s)

I’m sorry if I’ve lured you here in the hope you’d see me nude and all Miley Cyrus-esque on a wrecking ball (what a frightening thought) .. but alas, no. I have vivid childhood memories of how angry my parents used to get when my siblings and I broke or …

“Mum, why don’t you have a job?”

Yesterday I was in the car with my kids and out of the blue Luca said to me … “Mum, why don’t you have a job?”. In an instant the hair stood up on the back of my neck. All bristle like. So I said, “I do have a job, I …

13.1 Miles

Today I ran the Blackmores Sydney Running Festival half marathon. Not only was it a perfectly blue and warm spring day but it was a beautiful course starting at the Harbour Bridge and finishing at the Opera House 21km later … but best of all I ran my personal best …

Why Do Boys Smell?

Sometimes I look at the state of the toilet in my kids bathroom and I wonder “how the hell did they even do that? Is it physically possible?” Boys are disgusting. Mine are only aged 6, 4 and 2 and already my house has taken on the scent of a …

My Week In Photos 15.9.13

For a very long time I used to post my week in photos every sunday. I stopped doing it when we left London because after snapping away iconic London landmarks and my travels around Europe I figured photos of my daily grind on Sydney’s Lower North Shore would seem rather …

Learning to be an Aussie

Even though I’d much rather be living in London than Sydney, I’m not the type of person to wallow in self pity and not give living here a good go. Plus if I sat here all day and bitched about Sydney compared to London I’d just drive myself insane. Sydney …

Brazilian

I am having a dreadful week. Yesterday I embarrassed myself when I wee’d all over the floor at the gym thanks to the damage my four children did stomping all over my pelvic floor during pregnancy. And then today this happened. I had my eyebrows butchered by a sadistic eyebrow …

The Great Flood of 2013

I learnt something very important about myself at the gym today. I like to think I’m quite self aware but I guess there are still things I’ve yet to learn. Like that my pelvic floor and Body Attack classes are not friends. Not. At. All. I didn’t have much time …

Why Running Is My Tonic

For something that is essentially just putting one foot in front of the other repeatedly, running has filled my life with great things. I have had many people in my past and present life tell me that running is addictive, running helps with depression, running just makes you feel less …