We arrived for a scan at 9 am. The scan usually happens fast even though the baby is always in the wrong spot and the sonographer — if they are a talking one — usually starts off being jovial and then gets quiet and serious. It’s still early in the…

A month ago sommelier Samantha Payne wrote an article for Gourmet Traveller titled Natural wine is dead. Despite it’s inflammatory tagline, it was a fairly short and seemingly innocuous summation of the genesis of the Australian natural wine movement. …

I first noticed my heart doing weird things in the middle of last year. I wouldn’t be doing anything really but my heart would be racing along for no particular reason. Sometimes it would be a few minutes, sometimes hours, sometimes days. …

Does my compulsion to document and share experiences through various media diminish my experience in real time? I don’t know. It’s an argument that currently rages ferociously within and beyond these very platforms. Cal raises it with me every time I stand up at a table to take a photograph…

We are approaching the end of the year and that means one thing for sure: the personal yearly wrap up. I am a long-term indulger in the end of year wrap up. It’s when everyone starts retrospectively making sense of all the shitty things that happened this year. Turning poop…

23.10.2020 I’ll affect you slowly as if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants. It won’t rain. -Richard Brautigan Beautiful photos by Nina Claire. Delicious food by Anise Catering. Best wedding coordinators ever Leish & Sarah. Best celebrant ever Louisa Mudge. Gorgeous table flowers by Green Goddess Farm. Divine Persian love cake by Rosa Diaferia. Thanks for loving us, dear friends, we love you too. Thanks to everyone near and far for sending us your love on that special day and always. Cannot wait to celebrate with each and every one of you!

As a little girl I never dreamed of getting married. I didn’t look to marriage as an achievement in itself. It seemed a natural life event that happens to people when nothing else more exciting came up. Not going on an expedition to the Arctic? Not pursuing a scientific breakthrough…

I’ve been hoping that I would arrive at the time in life when decision making became straight forward. I’ve always assumed that there was a magical age at which the answers became clear. I’m devastated to realise this seems increasingly unlikely. I’m grappling with the knowledge that in actual fact…

Some people spend money on nice new cars, some people buy dresses and sexy lingerie and some people do other far more sensible things with their money. For me, there is nothing more fulfilling than spending money in a restaurant for breakfast, lunch and/or dinner. I value experience above all…