AU REVOIR: SEE YOU IN TWO WEEKS
Darlings,
I will be holidaying in Perth for the next two weeks – see you when I return from the Motherland.
MADAM HOLIDAY: DESTINATION PERTH
I’m tired. Worn out. Exhausted. I sit at the keyboard to type and my mind fails to respond. I look at my calendar with resentment. I can’t bare to schedule another appointment. My inbox makes me feel sick. Yes folks, it’s that time of year. Time for a holiday.
I’LL ALWAYS HAVE MELBOURNE
What draws us to be with certain cities over others? What is it about a city that has us pack our bags and leave our life behind to move to the other side of a country and even to other sides of the world? Is it the energy of a city that attracts the people to it, or is it the collection of the people’s energy that makes a city what it is?”
10 TIPS TO FIX YOUR FINANCIAL FAUX PAUS
I could organise a world trade conference in the bat of a false eyelash, but my financial affairs are a complete shambles. My budget on paper could gain me entry into a PHD Mathematics program at Harvard (I can show you pivot tables and pie charts graphing my projected savings into the year 2030), but [...]
MADEMOISELLE IN MELBOURNE: PENNY BLUE REVIEW
If there is one thing I love about Melbourne, it’s living in a city where many of the bars are hidden down lane-ways. It makes me feel like I am a character in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, whose stumbled into Narnia from the cobblestone streets, and I can’t find my way back [...]
BOOK REVIEW: COMMITTED BY ELIZABETH GILBERT
Elizabeth Gilbert’s first book Eat Pray Love found me at the exact time I needed it, and I devoured every page like a Sara Lee sticky date pudding. She articulated her thoughts and feelings in a way that I hadn’t been able to do for myself, and reading her words comforted and inspired me, but [...]
SEX AND THE CITY 2: OPENING NIGHT MOVIE PACKAGE IN NEW YORK
To celebrate the release of Sex and the City 2, On Location Tours in New York have developed a fabulous package that includes the famous Sex and the City Hotspots Tour, dinner, a ticket to SATC2 the movie and admission to a nightclub.
MADEMOISELLE IN MELBOURNE: THE SPICE MARKET
The Spice Market was my favourite Melbourne bar of 2009 (no, it’s not a market selling spices). So why is it called Spice Market then you ask? “The lavish Spice Market takes its inspiration from the ancient spice route travelled by traders of old, and has been exquisitely furnished to reflect this famous journey from [...]
MADEMOISELLE IN MELBOURNE
As the great Frank Sinatra sings, Melbourne is “my kinda town”. Well, it has been since 2001. You see, I grew up in Perth with the beach, hot summer nights, endless heatwaves and running under the sprinklers in my bathers. I love that Perth was my childhood. I really do. I wouldn’t swap it for [...]
“I GOT A LITTLE BEHIND IN MY RENT”
After being hypnotised yesterday to become a non smoker for life, I began to think about my relationship with money. What are the sub conscious beliefs and thoughts that dictate my financial affairs?
MADAM HOLIDAY: THE LUCKY LAST
I’m about to start my holidays. It’s going to be just me, the complete series of Sex and the City and the latest Marian Keyes book which has been waiting ever so patiently for me to read it since I bought it the day it came out (yes I am a devoted fan – all [...]
EMIRATES STAKES DAY 2009
As I sit here sipping on a sauv blanc on a sultry Sunday evening, I find myself still high on the weekend’s shenanigans. I feel like a bride who spent months planning her wedding, to wondering where the day went and how fast it passed – can we do it all over again? After spending [...]
COMING DOWN THE HOME STRAIGHT
I swanned into the city today, 3 hours before my pedicure, thinking I’d pick up a dress and shoes for the races on Saturday. Yes, that’s right, I am going to Flemington on Saturday, and I still have the tiny matter of a dress and shoes to find. I walked into David Jones, thinking I’d [...]
ONCE BITTEN TWICE SHY
Picture this. A friend has received their “divorce settlement” and asks you to go overseas with them. Having only known them for a few months and not having the money, you decline. After she begs you over and over, telling you she’ll pay for the ticket and accommodation, because she just really enjoys your company [...]
