Obligatory Blog

Kids on a plane! AAAAGGGHHHH! If you’re one of these folks with an appetite for sympathetic glances from strangers, then might I introduce you to the wonders of travelling as a solo parent with a small child? Well, I chose to interpret them as ‘sympathetic glances’ rather than ‘snarls of disapproval’; indeed, as Mister Three was throwing a mighty fit, kicking his shoes off while I struggled to wrangle a mildly ridiculous array of luggage and his pram in the sizeable taxi queu

Tim Tim’s are courtesy of Frankie & co, who joined forces with moi in staging a sufficiently elaborate surprise party for hubbster on the weekend. Which, thankfully, coincided with the END of the sugar detox!!!!! Happy birthday hubbs. You rock my innards. #birthday #familystuff #timtims

So I was gonna finally jump onboard this whole “X things before X” bandwagon, with today’s b’day making it a “33 things before 33”. It was gonna be filled with things like: – go skydiving; – sew a dress (i.e. one that I could actually wear without crying and/or exposing unintended portions of flesh); – take dance lessons; – snorkel (i.e. without crying and/or exposing unintended portions of flesh); – etc etc Except that this afternoon, on my 32nd birthday, I shall be taki

Baby on a plane! Nearly! We nearly didn’t have Cassidy. Until sometime in early 2008, there I was at the beautiful Banff Centre, where I was lapping up the luxury of my own studio to work solidly on my new show during a residency. As such, I set myself the task I’d long procrastinated, of finally sorting through the mountains of pages, notes and random napkins on which I’d spilled forth thoughts over the years, to see which might actually survive the cull and make it into the