Pink Perspective

After a long drive to Sydney from home, I felt super sluggish and knew I had to get the body moving. Exercise is a real motivator for me and I knew how much better I would feel after a brisk walk. I set off in the lovely late Autumn afternoon sunshine and was getting up […]

A Woman in Her Prime

There is a lovely old novel about a school teacher, set in England pre WW2 . The main character is a Miss Jean Brodie and well  … in her prime. The book is called ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’ by Muriel Spark and it is deliciously discussed here in an episode of The First […]

Keep Warm Dahlings

I have recently purchased an item, that, in the past, I had completely turned my nose up at. I had dismissed it as an item of total daggy-ness, rather than the item of luxury and/or necessity it truly deserves to be called….. Oh how wrong can a woman be? Well, enter the: Dressing Gown… Yes, […]

Bubble bubble toil & trouble

Persimmon chutney making…                                               It’s such an aunty thing to do in winter isn’t it? Well adventure for the taste buds is still an adventure girls… Making chutney, which I’d never done before! For those of you who do not know what a persimmon is, and hey, that was me until I googled persimmon, the only […]

Tanking…

Beautiful course, hilly terrain, ocean views – the only thing required now is to get ‘into the zone’ and play well.  Sounds easy doesn’t it?  yes easy to say, easy to think, but one of the hardest things to achieve. I am one of those golfers that love to look the part! Clothes, gloves, bag, club covers, clubs, […]

Who Better to Know?

I popped in to have a cuppa with my dear friend Marita the other day. As we were chatting, she suddenly put her hand up and said ‘Sigourney (her nick-name for me, went from weaver to that!) I’ve got this warty thing on my hand’.   I immediately offered to purchase said wart. Marita had never […]

To Serve or Not To Serve

Service – what is that? Could it make any difference to your experience? Can service make or break an event or an occasion? Can service prolong or shorten your experience? Service in whatever shape or form it comes in, is important – is it not? Important, yes, yes, yes and yes! Last weekend me (Aunty Lush) and […]

Night on the Tiles

One of our favourite aunty things to do is follow Aunty Lush into debauchery and sing dance and drink til the sun comes up… Then aunty lush puts on another head (she has six), her makeup and goes to town while the rest of wonder in our hungover state why we didn’t protect ourselves from […]

She’s So Vain…

You know those things your mother does that you think I’m never going to do? Then you find yourself in the change room looking at your hair not the outfit you are trying on? That’s Mary O’Leary… and it turns out so am I. I am an exercise nutter. I’ve been a member at my […]

Our Girl Jill

Last week I arose to a quiet house, no alarm, sun gently twinkling at the curtain corners. I stretched warm and comfortable in the knowledge I had plenty of time to attend to my ‘mind of its own’ hair before alighting the train, with dignity and aplomb for the journey to the big smoke. FUCK… […]