Earlier this month, a close friend whisked me away to Her Majesty’s Theatre as a belated birthday gift, where I experienced all the Beauty and the Beast love onstage for the second time in my life. The first time I saw the production, I was a dreamy 16-year-old aspiring actor attending her first professional musical. […]
You know those moments in life where you envisaged you’d have some downtime to put your feel up, relax, and maybe read a book for an entire day? I imagined experiencing a handful of “lazy days” during the winter school holidays, but so far… I’ve been busier than usual. Between reclaiming the laundry and washing […]
This past week has been a blur of busyness. An intensive day of baking. Long days without a dishwasher. Time spent scrubbing walls, rearranging furniture, and unstacking and re-stacking bookshelves. Alphabetising books, organising the chaotic rumpus room, and finding lost things. With all this “manual labour”, I’ve been thinking. A lot. Inspiration comes in many […]
My family is currently enjoying the Term 1 school holidays (well, apart from Mr Wonderful, who’s working as usual), so I stayed away from the office the past few days and caught up on reading. Best plan ever! One book I enjoyed was Melissa Ferguson’s How to Plot a Payback, a fabulous romantic comedy which […]
It’s the last day of November and we’ve finally unearthed our Christmas tree! Now the school year is complete (well, Miss F’s last day is tomorrow), I’m hoping we’ll get the tree up and decorated by the end of the weekend as I’ve got lots to do next week. Amongst planning gifts and food for […]
It’s been a packed fortnight since I last posted. We farewelled September and the Victorian third term school holidays, and ushered in another round of Daylight Savings. My second daughter turned 17 (🤯), I filled my vehicle with the most expensive diesel I’ve paid to date, and I completed my manuscript for the fourth and […]
