Change is not something I’m good at. Growing up, my sister would rearrange the furniture in her bedroom up to three times a year, relishing the new spaces and angles it opened up. I never once willingly elected to move my bed from its nook against the far right wall. I take comfort in […]
baking
Is there a better smell than that of nut-brown butter? Sure, there are great scents around. The ocean skipping over sand on a crisp autumn morning is one. I’m also pretty mad about the aroma of the top of this one’s head after a bath. Then there’s the tropical fug of a perfectly ripe […]
Got to love a pun. Got to love cake. And together? Gold. Let’s not bury the lede on this. This is a quick as a flash, blitz it together, whizz of a dessert, particularly if you have some swift pieces of kitchen kit at your disposal (food processor/ stand mixer/ thermomix, what have you). What […]
I wish I could send you all a piece of this loaf. No, scratch that. In order to have the full experience of this loaf I first need to bundle you up and drive you two and a bit hours south of Sydney. I need you to turn up my mother’s agapantha flanked drive, hand […]
It’s easy to lose yourself while trying to sell a house. It’s not just being bereft of three quarters of your earthly possessions while it’s on the market (a process I’ve learned is dubbed ‘decluttering’- which translates as a tall blonde stylist walking through your flat and pointing at every second thing and saying ‘this, […]