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Writer | Traveller | Dreamer. A lesson in contrasts; I am a hopeless romantic and a commitment-phobe; a homebody and a wanderlust sufferer. I have an obsession with striped t-shirts, distressed denim and cocktail dresses and survive mostly on grilled cheese sandwiches.
Last night, in a split second, everything changed. The writers of Offspring—Australia’s favourite TV drama—killed off their leading man—anaesthetist Patrick Reid— and sent audiences across the country into mourning. For those who aren’t Offspring-addicts, Patrick (played by the handsome Matthew Le Nevez) was the partner of Nina Proudman (Asher Keddie) and the father of her unborn […]
MoreThere are a number of sentences that can quickly conjure up a sense of fear and panic in people. For me, the first is when my mum uses my full name. It almost always means I’m in trouble. Although it’s been a few years since it was last used … after I secretly increased my credit card […]
MoreLast week I stumbled upon a http://www.taste.com.au recipe for Fudgy Chocolate Caramel Biscuits. As someone who always judges a recipe by its picture, I was immediately sucked in by the chunky looking cookies with their promising mix of dark chocolate, jersey caramels and toasted walnuts. So, on Monday night, I found myself walking the aisles of […]
MoreThey say the first year of anything—marriage, parenthood, moving home after living abroad—is said to be the hardest. I don’t know who ‘they’ are, but I assume their theory has something to do with all those long, sleepless nights. And while I’ve not yet dipped my toe into the grown-up world of marriage or babies, […]
MoreStanding in the middle of one of the world’s largest shopping malls, I couldn’t help but shiver. Not because I was overwhelmed by the 520 stores than make up Dubai’s Mall of the Emirates—although they were quite jaw dropping—and not because the centre welcomed more than 33 million visitors in 2012. (Although to put that […]
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