How did we get to the last month of summer so quickly? A takeaway coffee at noon on a Monday?  Yes please. The miracle of earring back discs that help 'lift' where heavier earrings sit in your earlobes.  Game changers.  Mine are from Uberkate. via Uberkate Swimming carnival day for Master SSG.  Full points for pluck and giving it a go.  Our children really are our inspiration. A busy day and a busy night.  Thank goodness it's Friday tomorrow. Friday afternoon grocery shopping.  Made for people with more stamina than I have right now.  I rec ..read more

The skies of Sydney have been a bit grey in recent days. Grey is for taking shelter ahead of storms.  A gentle but insistent reminder to drive carefully on those roads as you head for home after another busy day. Grey is for taking the load of your feet for a moment.  A place to sit, regroup and switch gears. Grey is the sunlight breaking through the rain on Saturday morning.  The thing about grey is that it makes colour pop and your spirits lift accordingly.   That vibrant flower arrangement on a sidewalk table at the cafe.  Covid restrictions are loose ..read more

My love of Tuesdays is eternal.   With school well and truly back and the routines of the working week having made that transition from muscle memory to repetitive execution, this weekday day off of mine has a special place in my heart. I finally made it back to the pool for the first proper laps of the year. I've stepped out in this year's box-fresh pair of white Birki Madrids.  And a new pair of Active Truth shorts.  I'm a late adapter to the short activewear tights as day wear trend but I'm making up for this with Commitment to the cause and now own pairs of va ..read more

We still have the sand. Grains of it still pepper the floorboards and find their way to the soles of my feet as I pad around the house getting ready for the day ahead.  I feel it on my forearms from the yoga mat as I begin yoga practice before bed.  It's still caked on the mini surfboard in the boot of the car. Aside from the sand, life has been business as usual.  Taking up from where we left off before Christmas last year. School is back.  In lace-up shoes.  Whose toe boxes haven't been scuffed down to under the dyed layer from that mysterious walk that kind ..read more

  It's time.  I'm having hot cross buns for breakfast in early January and I derived great pleasure on Friday morning in fixing the latch on the front gate with my own hands using odds and ends hardware I had stashed away for odd jobs such as this. It's been just on three weeks of deeply relaxing, pottering around doing not much at all staycationing and I'm ready to head back to work on Monday morning. When you've done such a thorough job of raking the lawn it higlights the dead patches  in the process. The highlights of this go slow reset have been about som ..read more

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