Christmas Day In Review

We survived Christmas. For us it’s an easy one because both our families live in Australia, therefore Christmas Day is our own. We actually really like it, there’s never any argument over whose family we’ll spend it with and I don’t even have to brush my hair if I don’t …

The Dreaded Post Office

I’m quite convinced that post office workers are the slowest most inefficient people on the planet. I think it’s a global problem because when we lived in Sydney I spent at least two days of my life in a queue at Roseville post office and it’s the same here in …

Why This Christmas Holidays Is Different

It’s day six of the school holidays. Usually by now I’d be in a neurotic heap but this Christmas holidays something has changed. The loss of twenty innocent children in Connecticut has been an awful reminder of how precious life is and how in the blink of an eye our children …

Winter Wonderland

Every school holidays I take each of my kids out for a special day on their own. They get to choose where we go, what we have for lunch and at the end of the day they have £10 to spend however they like. They always choose places that the …

Why I Love London

It’s no secret that I’m having an enchanting love affair with another city. I have loved London from the second I set foot in it back in 2007 and with each year my love for it deepens. Sometimes I feel like I’m cheating on Sydney because although it’s my hometown …

Morning Chaos

Sometimes the reality of life with four kids hits me harder than usual. This morning I woke up when Charlie stuck his finger up my nose at 5.30am and nearly gave me a heart attack. Soon to be followed by the lungs on steroids upstairs squawking for attention because of …

Why I Love Winter

I love cold weather, absolutely love it. I probably should have been born in Siberia but instead I popped up in a gene pool in Australia. Maybe Mother Nature is as crap at geography as I am? It’s a huge part of why I love living in London and if …

Change Room Trauma

During the week I had to buy a dress. Rob’s work host a charity ball each year and because I’m not a frequenter of balls I had nothing to wear. The last one we went to I was heavily pregnant and wore approximately half a kilometre of maternity fabric but …

Bad Driver

Yesterday I caused a bit of a kerfuffle when I drove down a one way street the wrong way and into the path of a bus. I’m pretty good at making a spectacle of myself and true to form it was a cracker of an exhibition. The bus driver stuck …

Running Hag

Last sunday I ran my first 10k race and words cannot describe the elation and sense of achievement I felt crossing the line. I get the endorphin thing now, it’s taken me 39 years but I get it. Who knew something legal and free could get you so high? I …