Good Living

We are very proud to say that today, we have a gorgeous article in the SMH Good Living mag. Very proud of ourselves and excited about all the exciting opportunities ahead!

Sandy picnic

We love to picnic and get away from it all. We really thought that we'd found the perfect spot in the sand dunes.... until this cute dog ran right thru the middle of it all! Crunchy salad anyone?

Bambini Wine Room

We adore this place. It is right in the centre of the city, opposite Hyde Park and whenever we feel homesick for a bit of European wine bar action, we head here. It's great to sit outside on a sunny day in the summer and feel smugly happy as you watch the lawyers and their HUGE files buzzing by. It is equally ( if not more) wonderful on a cold night. It feels like a an old country house... all candles, nibbles and walls filled with wine. The bar snacks are great - the frites with aoili rock my world. Head next door to the more fancy Bambini Trust restaurant for fancier fayre.

Perfection

We have just spent the most wonderful few hours down at Nielson Park on the harbour. The sea was so clear and the sand so white, that it made me feel very, very lucky to live in this amazing city and to experience such gorgeousness. Thank you Sydney - you're a sparkler.

The Micky B lemon tree

My darling daddy passed away just before Christmas and I wanted to have something here with me in Australia that would always remind me of him. So, I have bought this cute little lemon tree. Every time that I cut a lemon from it and pop it in my G&T, it will make me think of Micky B and how lucky I am to have him as my daddy. Cheers to the Micky B lemon tree.

Milk glass

I'm not quite sure how you make milk glass, but it reminds me of jellies that my mum used to make with evaporated milk. Creamy and cloudy and dreamy. My best friend from home bought me this beauty as a thank you pressie for staying with us. I don't have a cake to put on it... but it's way too pretty to put away waiting for a cake to grace it's milkiness.

A bag of picnic goodness

I ran out of hampers today so had to put a picnic in a bag instead. I kinda like it in a papery, baggy kinda way.

The perfect butter dish

It always used to really bug me that I didn't ever have room temperature butter and would end up 'quickly popping it in the oven', to find a melted pool of yellow gloop 2 minutes later. This is a thing of the past since I bought my new, perfectly formed and rather fabulous butter dish. I love it. Alot.

Rosey love

Sometimes, when I see roses I just want to freeze them and keep them smelling and looking just as they are forever. These particularly gorgeous peachy roses smell like heaven and take me back to my parent's back garden...and me making and bottling 'rose perfume' .... that never smelt as good as I'd hoped. Please stay like this for another day or two - you make me so happy.

Chocolate Pavlova

I have recently discovered the joys of whisking eggs and watching them go all silky . It's fun!!