The Shopping Sherpa

Not one but two confessions: 1. I spent waaaaay more than my frugalling budget yet again this week: I figured that since my tax return cam...

Three little Librarians were eating their tea When TSS brought out a catalogue for them to see Borders had opened that day! They all danced ...

1. Just in case you didn't believe me last week when I said we had a city centre sign, here's proof. Gotta love a city that has to...

I seem to be going through a blue patch craft-wise which is a bit perturbing. On the left is the baby hoodie I started for E on Saturday (b...

Princess B texted me asking if I'd seen the PJs at Target. Since I was in town anyway I trotted off to see what she was on about and the...

SPOILER ALERT: If you happen to be my mother, read with eyes closed! Well I seem to have blown the budget two weeks running. And I don'...

Buy gumboots.

I found this in my post box yesterday morning courtesy of Taph : Just what I need to finish the cardigan I started last week (and what I was...

Yesterday lunchtime I took Miss Daisy down to the cosmetic surgeon for an insurance quote on a bum lift. While I was waiting for them to do ...

And we're back onto level 2 water restrictions . Just brilliant. At least I have a good excuse not to wash my windows... I ended up wat...

Well the boys have pretty much all gone to new homes and in return I now have a brand new pair of black and white spotty gumboots (just wh...

I had a good reason to have wanted to stay on the sofa all day yesterday and knit like a woman possessed - the record player is still out. ...

I made a new friend recently who has a similar background of 1980s alternative/ student radio and thus we "shared" a lot of memori...

This little $40 beauty followed me home from Vinnies Mitchell, blowing my frugalling budget for the week right out of the water. The Staff C...

Thought I'd share a picture of the same scene 5 hours later... (yes, I was knitting at the dinner table again. But only during the final...

Dinner party for six to mark the sixth anniversary of my becoming an Australian citizen. Starts in one hour exactly. I'm still trying to...

Jo Sharp Knit Issue 2 turned up at the Newsagents* this week. And I can buy it without guilt (which is actually a rather nice feeling). G...

I went to a Neutrimetics "Spa Experience" Monday night (since when did they stop being parties and become Spa Experiences ?) I ca...

I was actually in the office all day today which makes a nice change after a couple of days of racing round. I pulled all the scrappy bits o...

Got a bit stuck with the bib as I couldn't decide if it would work better sewn together right sides facing then turned and top-stitched ...