Summer Days, drifting away

The days have been long, endless driving for bored teens in the country with no public transport. Keeping small kids while working...oh yes, that old juggle. Cake eating, cleaning & organising, washing, board games, lots of cooking and eating and gin swilling. Book reading, tv show binging, … [Read more...]

First Annual Friend’s Trip to…Jugiong

I have been meaning to do this post since AUGUST last year and with some time in early January I wanted to finally get the time to share one of the best weekends I have ever had...our first annual friend's tip that we did in August 2022. The weekend was a celebration for Lucy's 40th and James' 50th … [Read more...]

Tender hearts, new year, slow farm days

We are back from our annual post Christmas visit to the farm - honestly my favourite week in the whole year. I said to Sue when we arrived on Wednesday afternoon absolutely exhausted from Christmas with the family - late nights and mess and endless cooking, that the farm is the place to me that … [Read more...]

Our family trip to Uluru-Kata Tjuta

I didn’t even let myself think about planning for this trip until the day that we left for the airport hotel. I was CERTAIN that one of the family would get covid and that all the plans would go into a spin and if I didn’t think it would go ahead, that it actually might. Which may have been the … [Read more...]

Long Lunch 2022

This is the first of these exclusive long lunches I have seen my brother, sister and cousins be a part of each year. I think they started them 4 or 5 years ago now, each year they choose an amazing restaurant, go our for a long lunch and celebrate life just because. It's like everyone's birthday all … [Read more...]

Full & Thorough Reporting: February

It's been a busy month and a bit since my last blog post - I have to apologise for the lack of content on here. It's not for lack of motivation I just cannot seem to make the time to sit down and write and share like I once did. Frustrating for me (and you, maybe?) but today I promised myself that I … [Read more...]

A slow start to the year at the farm

No time we look forward to more as a family is when we head to the farm after Christmas to the start of the new year. This was the 17th time we have done it in fact, Rob and I counted them. 2004 the first when the house was being built just before our wedding in 2005. We missed one in 2008/9 when we … [Read more...]

Full & Thorough Reporting

Well hello YOU. It's been a while. There's so much to catch up on including the fact that I got new shoes so let's go. We left lockdown just under a month ago and it's been SO busy ever since. All those weeks and months of desperately wanting to be seeing and doing and BEING and now we are … [Read more...]

A weekend at the Snow

As someone who is turning 44 in a few weeks I can tell you that a trip to the snow has been a loooooong time coming for me. I have dreamt about the snow, as you would know, am obsessed with us getting some at home every winter, and will go snow chasing into neighbouring towns if there's ever some on … [Read more...]

Full & Thorough Reporting

Doesn't take long to get back into the swing of it all does it? Holidays and the slower pace (and juggle of work) seems a distant memory now as we tackle term 2 and allllllllllllll of the things that go with it. It's May SOMEHOW later this week...birthdays galore coming up...it's all a LOT. But as … [Read more...]

Girl’s mid week escape to Berry

Earlier this week I had the pure JOY of dropping kids to school on Monday morning and then hopping in the car and picking up Miss Rabbit and Mrs Munro and hitting the road down the mountain (and up another one) to spend 2 nights in the gorgeous area of Berry. This was kind of a last minute thing … [Read more...]

Mums on the loose: a 2020 escape bender

This has been some year hasn't it been? If there was ever a time desperately needed to escape reality then this is it. Unfortunately this isn't something that everyone can do with border closures but we had the (wonderful/lucky/amazing) chance to over the weekend for 3 WHOLE NIGHTS. We lined up … [Read more...]

Fashion, turn to the left

I had an adventure this week with Rob helping him shoot a big campaign job for Arlington Milne & Elms & King up at the beach. My word does fashion involve a whole lot of moving parts, an insatiable beast that requires endless feeding...ideas...I have such an appreciation for the work that … [Read more...]

Birthday bliss at Bask

I always love the chance to escape somewhere for a weekend - everyone in buy family (mostly ME) know how much fun holiday Beth is. She relaxes, she sleeps in, she doesn't make the bed, she leaves clothes all over the floor and she loves to cook and read. The chance for holiday Beth to come out is … [Read more...]

Girl’s mid winter weekend at the beach

If ever there was a weekend needed for a group of 5 weary women who have survived the start of the shocker that has been 2020 it was ALL OF THE WOMEN OF THE WORLD...however! We were lucky enough to escape on Thursday morning after school drop off to head to the beach for a few days. Can I tell you, … [Read more...]

Girls on Tour: Road trip to Orange for The Huddle

Ever since we went out to Orange 18 months ago for our last Girls on Tour regional shopping trip (you can read about it in this post, this post and this post). I have been a huge fan of Pip and what she does at her shop/s at The Sonic. Her instagram feed is a colourful burst of joy in the retail … [Read more...]

Our road trip to Mudgee for Wild Spark event

This time last week I was running around like a crazy woman trying to get out the door and on the road to Mudgee for the weekend for the Wild Spark event being run by my mate Miss Chardy. It's always tricky to line up a weekend away from the family, moreso when we had to pack up our shop to take on … [Read more...]

New Zealand Holiday: The recapalooza post

I thought I better do a blog post that packs all the info into one post so that if you are planning your own trip to NZ you have a one stop shop. I am not a top 7 places to see or do, I am more a this is what we did some of it was great and some of it was meh, but check it out and if you have any … [Read more...]

Queenstown Adventure: Day 8

Today was our last full day in Queenstown so we decided to take a wander through town and catch the old steam boat over to Walter Peak Station for a farm tour, talk about family wholesomeness! We had seen the boat go past our house every day so it was exciting for the girls to be on the boat and the … [Read more...]

Queenstown Adventures: Days 6 & 7 in New Zealand

Yesterday morning we knew that the weather was going to be cold and miserable so had planned for a slow morning at home - what a joy to wake up to fresh snow on all the mountains, low flying cloud and fresh conditions - all from the comfort of this gorgeous home. Hot coffee, sleep-ins (or if you are … [Read more...]