Let’s talk about picnics. They have long been one of my favourite types of gatherings – ever-lovely and ever-beautiful (but also ever-dependent on the weather!). As the days grow warmer in these early weeks of springtime and we, in Sydney, slowly emerge from a lengthy pandemic-induced lockdown, picnics have become a symbol of quiet freedom […]
Italy was one of the first European countries that I ever set foot in, at nineteen years old. I wrote so many stories in those streets – memories layered upon memories – and collected so many moments (a few of which are immortalised in the archives of my blog). Those moments are still with me […]
It’s arrived, in this hemisphere at least. Winter. There’s something poetic about winter. Life is trembling on the branches. The mornings are colder, the days shorter. As a seasonal melancholy sets in, the weeks have been equally marked by days spent meditating on the rain drops that persistently run down our glass window panes, and […]
We have always baked bread in our home but it used to have to ebb and flow with the busyness of our schedules. Until this year – when home and work and rest and play all blurred together in a surreal landscape of golden fog and ominous shadow, stretching indefinitely into the horizon. In this […]
Life has been a whirlwind lately and my heart and mind have been running wild amidst all that there has been to see, do and learn. Seasons like these create both brilliant and dangerous paths to wander down at times and so I’m slowing my steps and measuring my breath to bask in the beauty […]