Saturday morning was a busy one. It was a flurry of activity in preparation for the arrival of GG and my combined Christmas present….. our shiny new Thermomix! It was getting dropped off at 9.30am so I was running around like a headless chook trying to get everything I needed sorted before our consultant arrived. […]

My sister, Miss A, and her boyfriend, Mr J, came for a visit from Christmas Island and kindly said they’d drive out my way and meet me for lunch somewhere in my new work neighbourhood. Not wanting to have to venture too far we decided on Clancy’s Fish Pub, right next door. It wasn’t overly […]

When I drive straight to the gym from work I generally drive down Fitzgerald Street and have been watching over the past few months as they give the Hyde Park Hotel a much needed facelift. I’d only been there once, years and years ago and had memories of it being a bit of a drive. […]

GG had been given a Freedom voucher for Christmas and was taking his sweet time using it so we finally found a Saturday when there was spare time to peruse their wares and we did need a new cupboard so at least we had a target in mind. We’d been at the gym in the […]

The second week of GG and my wine course rolled around before we knew it and this week for our quick dinner venture we headed to The Vic. They don’t start serving dinner til 5pm on a Wednesday but after realising how close Claremont actually was we knew we’d have plenty of time. I’ve been […]

I’m doing a 4 week wine tasting course with GG at the moment, which starts at 6pm in Claremont. It means it a bit of a challenge for us both to fit dinner in between when we finish work and when the course starts. One our first week we headed to the Subiaco Hotel, arriving […]

It’s lovely having a pub close to home with good food and friendly service. So when an evening rolled around and GG and I had done the food shopping and some other of those necessary domestic tasks and cooking was then low on the list of things we fancied doing, we headed around the corner to […]