Click Here If You Hate The Election Circus

As you all know I am Australian but don’t live in Australia. Therefore I haven’t voted in any election for years. I do however keep up with what’s going in Aussie politics and although we can’t vote, my family is still affected by what goes on in Australia because we …

Food Habits, Diets and Friends

I’ve blogged before about my obsession with certain foods and my complete lack of self control in this arena. In particular Nutella, sour cream and white chocolate. Because I’m so anal about weight gain and how many calories I eat, I obsess about wanting these foods all the time. I …

Born Again Exercise Junkie

Rob keeps telling people he’s convinced someone has possessed his wife: A non drinking running fanatic who has swapped Hello! magazine for marathon training books. I’m not exaggerating when I say I’ve spent 95% of my adult life avoiding exercise and bitching to anyone who’ll listen about what freaks gym …

The Lady Doctor

Today I had to go for my annual checkup at the gynaecologist. I thought about trying to rephrase that to make it sound less like someone was going to look up my patootie but there’s no sugar coating a trip to the gyno really, is there? Anyway while I was …

Tourist For A Day

Today I had an entire day to myself. 9am to 5pm all for me. So I decided to jump on a bus and be a tourist in my own town. I started at Piccadilly. Where my favourite cake shop happens to be, so I stopped for an awesome fruit flan …

Nostalgia Gone Mad

Now that we have a leaving date for when we move to Sydney, my London related sentimentality and nostalgic persuasion has gone up a notch. I want to suck up everything I see, hear and do in my last months in London. I want my memory bank stacked full of …

Glutton Baby

Today while the big kids were at school and nursery, I took Jude in his pram to our local Tesco to buy milk. Being the impulsive shopper I am, I thought I’d do a quick zip around the shop to see if there was anything I didn’t need but would …