It’s been a pretty good week around these parts.  Those bloody Canadians finally went home, the weather has been cracking and I’ve watched some telly: in MKR two dickheads got kicked out, and WIN has some unreal* new local ads for me to enjoy**.

But wait, there’s more, here are the hits:

1.  This yoghurt.  Are you eating it yet?  If you aren’t, what are you waiting for?  It’s bloody beautiful.  I don’t usually like products derived from cow’s pus, but this stuff is the business.  Trust me.  They even have a coffee flavour, which sounds rank, but is strangely delish.  Get onto it.

Buy this for the family to share, then eat it yourself in one sitting. Stuff ’em, you pay the bills, right?

2.  This view.  This is what I see every time I haul my lazy arse upstairs.  Not a bad reward.  I am surprised and grateful almost every time.

Check out my pez

3.  Have you got one of these babies?

Take my word for it: GAME.CHANGER.  The Canadians cooked us magnificent pulled pork in it, and since then I have cooked three meals (butter chicken, chicken curry and lamb invention) and the evil geniuses HAVE ACTUALLY EATEN THEM.  Like I said, game changer.  Whack it on at 9am and there you go.  And don’t take any notice when the recipe says to brown the meat first, it’s bullshit, just chuck it all in and Bob’s your uncle.

4.  Now don’t get me wrong here, I still think Lego is the scourge of the modern world, partly because I am scarred from having to ‘help’ make so many airplanes and boats with instructions longer than a some novels I’ve read, but mostly because a tiny piece will always get left behind, and that piece will then wind up stabbing the sensitive part of my foot.  In the middle of the night.  But this little vignette I found today tickled my fancy.  It’s a band, and I like how the back two dudes wield an axe (guitar) and a telescope (microphone).  At the front is a DJ and a drummer.  Made me smile. I guess it’s true what they say about small things…

5.   A new app on my phone, free of course (because cheapskate) called MemeMaker I have been amusing myself and astounding my husband with HILARE memes.  Mostly about the cat (pussy jokes abound) and mostly too crook to let anyone else see, but well worth the money (which of course was no money, so #winning).

*Shithouse

**Piss myself at

So there you go: I showed you mine, what are yours?

It’s been a great week on the Sunshine Coast.  I can’t tell you too much right now, due to possible future blog fodder (I can’t use all my ideas at once you know), but The Canadians have been here, and we have done all things touristy.

So here’s the HITS:

1.  THE WHOLE SUNSHINE COAST.  We have been from Nambour to Noosa, Maleny to Maroochydore, Bli Bli to Boreen Point, and all the ridiculously named places in between, and every place has it’s own charm and point of difference.  Imma feeling pretty blessed to live in such a beautiful part of the world, and I’m so pleased The Canadians came and went, to help me see the place through tourist eyes all over again. This joint is bloody beautiful.  You should visit.

2.  Valentine’s Day Dinner.  I’m a definite non-romantic on the day (a bit of: don’t you tell ME what to do, calendar), but this VDay we decided to have a little celebration in our ‘party arena’ with the neighbours… Plus it was fun to force some romance on Twin Two and his bride.  We may have had some wine, just to toast St.Val of course… we’re not lushes you know.

I got my BabyMac on and made some watermelon loves

3.  Sisters-In-Law.  I have two now, and both times, within seven minutes of meeting them, I felt like I had known them forever. It eases my heart to see my brothers with such gorgeous, whip-smart, funny chicks, who fit right in to our little niche.  Smart guys, my brothers.

4.  Some fun news for the blog…. I can’t say much -because who knows what crazy ideas these kids are gonna come back with-  but I can say I am VERY EXCITED at what may happen over here in my little part of the Interwebz, in this Year of the Horse (I’m told it’s all about fast moving energy and quick decisions, and less about having a long face)… Anyway, you might, if you’re all well behaved, get a chance to read more about the behind the scenes stuff here in Asherland.   Maybe.

5.  Friends.  Just friends.

I’ve got some rippers.  Some of them are far away in Mextoria, but somehow they know just when I need a pep up.  Some are next door and open their house and their generous hearts to my visitors.  Some are people I haven’t met IRL, (weirdly), I met them on here, or Twitter, and yet I feel like they know me and I them.  Some are gallivanting around Australia, but still care about what’s happening in this little part of The Shire, and some ARE COMING TO VISIT NEXT MONTH, and then I’ll see them in Sydders just after that.

Cheers to friends.

Happy Weekened RRs

What are your hits?

Here they are, the hits of the week:

1.  These Hammamas towels… They fold up tiny.  They’re cotton.  They’re awesome.  Get some.

2.  This cool little pate knife.  It’s made by a lady in Tassie, and you should have seen the packaging. I.can’t.even.  Modelled on a Sycamore seedpod.  It’s a beautiful little thing.  A perfect gift.  Check her out here

3.  These little thingys by Marion.  Just the thing when you can’t be bothered cooking.  Ahhhh Marion, you may make tasty food, but on the table in 20 minutes?  Marion, you are an amateur.  Get a cooked chook and it’s on the table in under 10.  Sunday night? Sorted.

4.  Watching Coco practice on her new violin.  She’s so tiny and it’s so tiny and she’s sooo cute.

5.  I remembered about THIS ad last night.  You can trawl through all the other ones if you like, but I dunno why, I just love this one.

And I do have just one “shit”: Mike Brady singing the new Foxtel Footy ad.  Messing up the quintessential footy song of my childhood: Not cool.

How was your week?  Any hits?

So here it is, the hit list of the week:

1.  This stuff. Mmmmm. I don’t think I need to say any more, other than thanks Sam and Ben and thanks Mum for some supplies.  Also thanks Me (and Uncle Dan) for having the good sense to get a bottle to farewell my beautiful Sue*.  We didn’t have the ‘correct’ glasses for my taste, but, Mmmmm.

2.  Evans Head.  We had the opportunity to spend a few nights there over the long weekend, and that joint was awesome.  We emerged from the time-warp of a coastal town of thirty-seven years ago, three days later, rejuvenated.  Go there if you can.  But not if you want fancy shiz.  (Gulpers of green smoothies in Mason jars or Salted Caramel Macaron Munchers need not apply.  The RSL does NOT have Himalayan Sea Salt, nor is the beef Wagyu.)

3.  A fun little idea that might become something with this here blog… It might not, but it IS fun to dream a little dream sometimes doncha think?  Stay tuned on that one… You KNOW I’ll be sharing the news if it’s peachy.

4.  Michael Franti.  I’ve said it before, but I’ve gotta say it again.  How good is this song?

5.  Great teachers.  Our kids have hit the jackpot this year, with awesome teachers that suit them perfectly.  I know it’s only the first week, but we are pumped…. Or maybe that’s just me and the euphoria of a house that says tidy, and air that stays whinge free for five whole hours a day.

What are your hits of the week?

*OOPS, that sounds weird, like she’s dead- she’s not, just DEAD TO ME for leaving me without a coffee buddy for the next year whilst she gallivants around from girt to girt.

Too many HITS to keep it to five this week so here’s a few:

• cool presents from patients- thoughtful and delicious
• fun days with the kids: at the beach, BMX track, the park, the pool, Thrill Hill, at home
• a week of top results with my people
• Christmas lights and the beautiful freaks who do them
• being complimented on my writing
• the Hastings Street transformation- just magical
• ice cold beers slaking my throat
• counting down the sleeps til Chrissy on the chalkboard
• a warming tinge of sunburn
• the best website ever- PNP for the the kids Santa videos
• visits from the elves
• Nath pressure washing my sideway- so clean
• planning the Christmas menu
• dinners with great friends
• not being asked to make a gingerbread house
• Christmas parties
• people laughing at the blog
• finding an old friend again and finding us both the same (yet different)
• getting some annoying cycles completed
• Nath repairing the roof and painting the ceiling before our hols start
• a week with no bat-shit on my white car or white rendered wall
• warm weather
• the sound of the surf at night
• not appearing in the “Christmas Jammies” video
• lots of parcels arriving in the post, including online shopping deliveries that I’d forgotten
• finding out there is a SK book that I wasn’t aware of, to read on hols
• getting a computer fixed and being able to re-install Minecraft
• watching and listening to Liam play guitar

I’m sure there’s more, so much more, but that will do for now…. I hope your week has been as much fun as mine.  I hope your kids are enjoying their holidays and you are having fun with them (in the moments that they aren’t driving you bloody crazy).

May your week be free of bickering and full of beauty.

Play nice everyone.

Here’s the hits:

Shhhh, spoiler alert: if you are one of my nieces, do not read point one.

1.  Christmas shopping, all done. How good is it once it’s all over, and you can sit back, relax, gloat, and drink things with cranberry in them?  Note to self: must remember to gloat.  We have close to one billion nieces to buy for, and this year, I was saved by GreenB the best clothes ever for Summer, or so the young people tell me.  There’s even a singlet called Ali and some shorts called Coco.  So clearly: they got style.

2.  Hangin’ out with my offspring today in the sunshine. We had a grouse morning, walking over to the Chalet, sitting in the sun, eating ice-cream and refining our Santa wish-lists.  Yes people, they HAVE CHANGED THEIR BLOODY SANTA LISTS.  WHAT THE ACTUAL?   Refer to point 1 above.  Parents=0, Evil Geniuses=1

3.  Friday night tv.  I’m kidding.  It’s not a hit, it’s a SHIT.  A massive poo in an otherwise lovely relaxing aromatherapy bath.  What is going on, television?  Why is Dannii Minogue now a judge on a modelling show?  If she gets a gig commentating the cricket I’m moving to Greenland.

4.  In other excellent telly news; in watching the ads on Friday night tv more avidly than the actual shows, I have discovered that SYTYCD is coming back on.  I have no idea when, but I know that I will love it.  I can’t tell who the judges are from the promo, but my boyfriend Jason better be on it, or there’s gonna be trouble Channel whatever.  You’ve been warned.

5.  THE LONG APRON restaurant in Montville.  I’m writing it in caps lock, because OHMYGOD.  We went there for lunch on Sunday and I must tell you, for the love of all that is sweet and pure, you simply have to go there as soon as you can.  Run, don’t walk.  It’s all kinds of magnificent.  I will give you a run-down in a post next week.