A Sentence (or Two) A Day: February 2021.
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3y ago
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
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The Greys. The Rainbows.
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3y ago
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
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Happy Tuesday.
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3y ago
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
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The Weeknight Book Club: 'Untamed' - Glennon Doyle.
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3y ago
Untamed. Part memoir, part confession, part tale of caution and part wake up call. For all of us who try to please, to pretend, to un-see, to fit in at all costs.... 'Untamed' is mostly my kind of memoir.  The kind best read (or listened to, thank you author narrated Audible editions) at leisure through the prism of your own experience.  It's tone is 2020s tongue in cheek, keeping it real.  It covers a lot of territory from life defining to lifestyle defined. In this memoir, Doyle takes us into her thoughts as the world she so carefully constructed after decades o ..read more
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A Parents of Saturday Sport. Memories of the Weekend.
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3y ago
I'm officially one of you, Parents of Saturday Sport.  As of the weekend just gone. It's a brave new world in the parenting experience, isn't it?  So many fixture lists, so many places to drive to, such early Saturday morning starts without the benefit of a proper coffee, so many uniform items that one is required to maintain in an immaculate, snowy white state. But we do what we have to do.  Which is why I waited a full 10 minutes after a role call before discretely making tracks up the hill for the row of fancy shops and eateries closest to the tennis courts.  By ..read more
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A Sentence (or Two) A Day: January 2021.
Sydney Shop Girl
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3y ago
And breathe. It was such a relief writing 'January 2021' for the first time this year.   Hot Cross Buns just after New Year's, a bargain box of usually spendy chocolate added to the groceries, January was all about the extended staycation for me.  Well, mostly, at least. And then real life recommenced.  It was a rude shock but I am grateful for those beach days I squeezed in at the end of the month.  They made it all bearable. Starting the year as I mean it to continue.  A virtual 10K through Boston, the morning spent trying to master Mario Kart Deluxe ..read more
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Just A Little Type On A Sunday Afternoon.
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3y ago
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
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Beach Days. Farewell, Target.
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3y ago
It's been quite a week.   So much so that my poor little brain tried to enter the supermarket car park with my work swipe card. And the champagne de-corked itself with such precision and force that the cork landed in the middle of the vegetables I'd just cut to go with my mid week packet of Mi Goreng. Even my carrots were struggling this week.  Can you imagine limping through the day with that much leg length discrepancy? All I can say at times like this is ....  thank goodness for the beach. Because a solid series of mornings at the beach makes ..read more
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It's Time. Lasagna. Local Activewear Labels.
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3y ago
  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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Crystals, Day-Glo and Ecosa Pillows.
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3y ago
Staycations are here to stay by the looks of things, Sydney.  With border closures and international travel requirements in a constant state of flux - staying in place just seems like both the right and least stressful thing to do right now. My fellow Sydney-siders have done the city proud and together we've accepted our fate with good grace.  I was at our local Westfield the day after mask-wearing was made compulsory for indoor activities throughout Greater Sydney and everyone I saw was dutifully wearing their face mask. In addition, we all checked in with the Service NSW app wh ..read more
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