This morning I got up super early and went to the market. So early in fact that the aisles were still full of empty fruit boxes and runaway grapes and squished apricots. No matter because I’m amazingly nimble with…
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Amazingly we’ve ticked over into 2020 and much less amazingly we saw the new year in with catastrophic bushfires across Australia. It’s hard to know what to say about this really, when so many have said it better than…
Well hello! Three years ago a number of very difficult years in my life culminated in it all turning completely upside down. Beloved people and pets died. A very long and very hard relationship ended. Health dramas happened, one after…
I got up early this morning and had a cup of tea outside in a very light mist of rain. I can’t tell you how brilliantly refreshing it was. There were quite a lot of birds doing the same…
It’s Saturday already and luckily you have checked in here because I have BIG ideas on what you could be doing with your good self this weekend. Something GOOD For the Weekend Something GOOD to do Maybe you could…
There are lots of bread-in-a-pot recipes floating around the internet, the best of which is The New York Times No-Knead Bread. This recipe, however, is also good. It doesn’t take quite so long to make, and the spelt flour…
Do you subscribe to the New York Times What to Cook This Weekend newsletter? I do and I love it. Well. I love most of it. What I don’t love is that the seasons are reversed here in Australia…
You may know that I launched this blog back in 2006 and it’s been humming along very nicely since then. While the blog has remained much the same, the online world has shifted dramatically. To put it mildly. A few years…
Remember that rice salad recipe I was talking about yesterday? Well here it is! In case you are in the mood for rice salad. This is based on a recipe my mother-in-law Duré used to make, with some additional…
I just watered my plants and do you know what I thought? I thought “go and write a blog post you lazy sod”. So here I am with a November-style edition of my favourite join-the-dots update … Taking Stock!…
Not all good food has to be green and crunchy*, now does it? Sometimes there is nothing better than something comforting and carbohydrate-laden instead. These jaffles are just that. You can make up the mixture and treat yourself to a…
It’s such a rainy day here. After two or three very hot days in a row the cool change came through and it has been bucketing down since the exact moment I pulled my car onto the freeway on…
This is one of my favourite comfort recipes. It’s quick to make and makes four generous serves which at my house means there’s plenty of leftovers for breakfast or lunch or dinner the next day! You can make this…
There has been so much going on in my world that I have been too tired to pop in here, but it’s a very quiet and rainy Saturday morning … and that’s one of the best time to write…
Well hallo there! How has your weekend been? I have been a bit poorly, so I made a plan to begin a cute thing called Hook & Look. The hook part of the thing is self explanatory – a…
For me, noticing the good things – however tiny – has been a sort of hook into the world when I had been feeling like I was drifting. Believe it or not, the very good Bahn Mi shop or…
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Feeling A Bit Sht? Here are some non-sht things that might prove bolstering
Feeling a bit shit? Well maybe some of these things will make you feel a wee bit less so? I honestly hope so. 1/ The pink robin lives in the south-east of Australia (i.e. where I live!) and I have…
Guess what? My new book is done! I can’t quite believe it, but my work on it is totally finished as off about 15 minutes ago. It’s got a few more tiny tweaks to be done (by brilliant Murdoch Books…
Hello cutie patooties! I just wanted to check in to tell you what I have been up to, in case it’s the sort of thing you fancy being up to, too! Rin and I went down to Venus Bay…
When I was 18 I fell in love and got pregnant. I suppose I was meant to be horrified, but really the idea of having a little family loomed large and seems like a good idea. I had left…
