How do you rate your level of Harry Potter fandom? I personally wouldn’t call myself a ‘Potterhead’ but I’ve read and enjoyed all the books and watched every movie several times, so I’d say I was more than just a casual fan. When we booked our trip to London, visiting the Harry Potter Studios in Leavesden was at the top…
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It’s always a good day when a parcel of printed goodness from Frankie Press arrives in my letterbox. Frankie’s house-loving interiors book – SPACES is back with Volume Three, and it’s full of beautiful, lived in homes and the stories about the people who live in them. Featuring homes and homes-away-from-home all around Australia – from inner-city Melbourne to sunny…
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One of my favourite things about London is it’s iconic underground train network known as The Tube. Even though regular commuters may complain about over crowding during peak times or occasional cancellations, it’s really one of the most efficient public transport systems in the world moving over 1.2 billion (with a b) passengers a year. Although London’s buses are my…
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Now that the weather has really cooled down I seem to be eating lots of carb laden comfort food, it’s making me feel a little bit sluggish so I’m making a conscious effort to include more vegetable rich meals in our repertoire. I went to the green grocer yesterday and picked up some gorgeous colourful seasonal winter vegetables to brighten…
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Nothing cures a bad case of jet lag better than a dose of Comic-Con realness, or more fittingly surrealness! Emma and I headed over to the Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre to check the cosplay action on Sunday. I’m a bit of a closet sci-fi geek, and Emma loves to dress up, so this was the perfect event with something…
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Brought to you by Australia Post Flying can be stressful at the best of times, throw a kid in the mix and things can get messy! But with a little pre-planning, travelling with children can be an adventure not a hassle. I’ve put together some helpful tips that have been useful for me when travelling with Emma. She is a…
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Emma and I are back from our three week adventure in London, there is so much to share that I don’t even know where to start. My plan of blogging on the road failed miserably as our days were jam packed, and thanks to jet lag for the first week of the trip, we both crashed from exhaustion before the…
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We’ve been in London for over a week now and have been really busy seeing the sights and doing all the things. I’ll be sharing everything with you over the next few weeks but wanted to share some tips that have really helped us hit the ground running as soon as we arrived in London. Most of these London Travel…
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It’s only three more sleeps before I jet off to London with Emma in tow. To say we are excited about this trip is quite the understatement! We will be there for three weeks, yes, three whole weeks in one place because I really want to settle in and get a feel for the city. There is so much of…
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It’s always exciting when I discover a new cafe has opened up in my hood, Caulfield has a bit of an unadventurous personality as far as suburbs go, so you’d think that the arrival of Frank & Ginger almost a year ago would have registered on my cafe radar. But I’ve been driving past Frank & Ginger for a whole…
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