We spent three days in Oxford with friends this week, staying in the suburb of Summertown. We took the train from Paddington (a 47 minute ride) that turned into a bit of chaos. I felt like I was in Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Some bridge was out on the way to Oxford, so the train…
A new friend of mine invited us to a comedy show at the Coach House in Soho. Her ex is a stand up comedian and he had a set that night. Four us went together and four of us were the entirety of the audience that evening. The room had many more people in it…
Bake Sale success at school! We are raising funds for transportation costs for a weeklong school camp in May. I love getting to know the other parents and I absolutely adore seeing the girls at school. We attended the Key Stage 4 Options Evening at my son’s school. What is that? It’s when 14 year…
My daughter and I planned for a girls weekend in Dublin to visit Trinity College. A quick 50 minute flight from London had us there in no time at all and then a 15 minute cab ride into the city. We stayed at The Mont Hotel in the Trinity District. It was hip, very clean,…
We spent the New Year in Edinburgh with friends. Edinburgh is so pretty to look at and so different to England. The climate cooler, the winter light shorter. the building’s stone is darker and the architecture unique. On New Year’s Eve day, we climbed Arthur’s Seat, the weather was mild and the path was muddy.…
My daughter has just recently started high school here in Melbourne, she is just 11 (high school starts in year 7 in Australia.) Since day one, she has been bullied and laughed at because of her place of birth, even though she has never lived there. Whether out at recess or in the classroom, there…
Traveling to Fiji, a first time for us and our first holiday abroad since Covid began. We booked our trip as soon as the Australian border was announced opened and once we had a travel bubble with Fiji. We kept our planning simple and secured an all-inclusive deal with flights, never feeling confident that we…
We needed a day out of town after having cancelled our winter holiday. A friend mentioned to me that she was just in Bendigo for the Mary Quant exhibit. “No way!”, I said – I had literally just watched a show called Secrets of the Museum about the V&A preparing for this exhibit just a…
Me and Miss C spent the day at Arthur’s Seat in the Mornington Peninsula this week. A friend of ours had a painting on display in an art gallery near to Mornington and she asked me to collect it for her which is what inspired our outing. After retrieving said art work, we drove to…
Bench – it’s in your kitchen and your bathroom – it’s the counter! Why do they call the kitchen counter a bench? It comes from both “benchtop”or “workbench”. G’day – The very Aussie way to say hello is way more common here in Melbourne as compared to Sydney. If I heard it twice in Sydney…
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