Food, Friends and Fitness

My sleep pattern is stuffed. I'm up in the wee hours... again! However, after getting cosy with my computer and a nice cup of tea, I'm back in the Land of Nod, and catch up on some quality zzzs. [Read More]

Pump up the Volume

Despite being tired as a worn out shoe, I'm up in the small hours with a cup of chamomile tea for company. Apart from the obvious and most unwelcome  interruption to my beauty sleep, this little [Read More]

Sweets and Tweets

Last night I dreamt that I overslept and missed the start of the half marathon, and by the time I made it to the start line, all the other runners were well on their way. I started the race - better [Read More]

Movie Motivation

I'm pleased I make it to pump this morning. I pump iron like it's going out of fashion and feel strong as an ox. I'm back to the weights I was lifting before I hurt my back, which seems like aeons [Read More]

The Need to Feed

I took the left overs of the lovely Donna Hay's Lemon Yoghurt Cake to the Pub2Pub - I thought it would make a good post-run-pick-me-up or a nice teatime treat for later. The cake was a big hit with [Read More]

Pub2Pub

I'm out of bed with a hop, a skip and a jump. Hooray! Today's the day I'm going to run my first Pub2Pub - all 13km of it! Who needs friends with benefits, when you have friends with wheels? Today [Read More]

All Appliance Saturday

Today, I'm going to enjoy a little of what I fancy and I don't waste any time! I'm up bright and early and stretch my legs with a 5km rock around the block before hitting the scales hard with a [Read More]

Shower Power

Monika's baby may not have arrived but the day to have the baby shower certainly has! It's pretty exciting. Let's think pink - there's balloons, there's banners and there's baby baking ...and lots of [Read More]

A Taste of Orange

Last month, we left Sydney for a wonderful weekend away in Orange. We loved the town and all that it had to offer, especially the food and wine... so you can imagine our delight today, when we get to [Read More]

25 Hours

Today is just one of those days when there are not enough hours. Despite operating on full throttle from the minute I get out of  bed, until the minute I get back in it, there's still not enough time [Read More]