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Do You Dread School Dress Up Days?

As it turns out, all of my kids are growing up to be quite creative. This is very unfortunate for them as they live in a glitter-free, glue-free, paint-free, playdoh-free household. Once upon a time when I only had one child I’d let her have playdoh, but our dog who was …

Business Class Farce

We recently flew from London to Sydney. The company my husband works for paid for our tickets and I’m not sure whether it was an accident or because they think he’s awesome, but they sent us business class. Screw the holiday I just couldn’t wait for the flight. Twenty four …

Olympic Fever

The reason we live in London is the Olympics. My husband was involved in the development of the Athletes Village so just after London won the chance to host the games we left Sydney .. feels like a lifetime ago now.  When we arrived in the UK, Stratford was a …

Who’d want to be a swimmer anyway?

So I’ve been watching the Olympic swimming every night. As an Australian I’m programmed to do this. I’ve also been brainwashed to expect that Australia will dominate the pool, which obviously we haven’t.I even went to the swimming the other night! See, this is me. Us Aussies are hardcore. Fine …

The Mother Ship

As you all know I live in London. Not only that, I LOVE living in London. I love everything about it, the crowds, the traffic and yes, even the weather. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IT. One could say I am totally  and utterly smitten with England. Don’t get me wrong, I love …

Cherry Pop

My name is Steph.I only decided to start a blog because 140 characters on Twitter isn’t nearly enough for me to say what I want to. That and my Mum has been harrassing me about writing stuff down because she likes my emails. I think that’s because there’s always a …