Archive
December 9, 2024: A love letter: A bumper Christmas edition, words about love and care and tenderness and kindness, and a gift from me to you – an end-of-year offer.
November 29, 2024: Don’t get too comfortable: Super-smart people are predicting collapse – and not so far in the future either.
November 25, 2024: Creating other worlds: What I discovered about the architects of film-making magic while watching my book, Fake, jump from page to screen.
November 16, 2024: The therapeutic value of sifting soil: A weird, anxious week … thank god for the garden.
November 8, 2024: We’ll always have the sea: Heartsick, but trying to find beautiful things to sustain.
November 3, 2024: Survival of the nurtured: In which I make a heroic rescue, climb a tree, and take home some important messages.
October 26, 2024: Everywhere, reasons to be angry: And then I remember – I haven’t changed my HRT patch.
October 18, 2024: Memento Mori: Bingeing a must-watch show and ghosts are besieging me.
October 9, 2024: The kindness of a stranger: Immersion in nature, beach-combing, curiosity, a treasure discovered and there is no room for loneliness.
From the archives: My mother, an 87-year-old powerhouse: Caring for a stubborn ageing parent (October 27, 2023)
September 21, 2024: Essential women’s business: In which we converse on important subjects – holey T-shirts, crepey skin, perishing brassières, downstairs grooming and whether white sneakers are passé, or not.
September 13, 2024: The most important post I’ll ever write: Or, how many holes can your clothes have before it’s time to drag yourself out shopping again (when you have a pathological dislike for shopping).
September 7, 2024: Time running away from me: The question is – and can you help me with this? – will some solid routines help me catch it?
August 30, 2024: The secret to my mother’s robust health: She’s 87 but looks a decade or more younger. Good genes are only part of the equation.
August 24, 2024: Urban observance: Spring is my time and, out with Lola, there’s a lot of tandem sniffing and watching going on.
August 16, 2024: How WhatsApp fuelled an outbreak of new gangs: They’re roaming our streets and not to be taken lightly.
August 9, 2024: Trying and failing to avoid the comments: … the good the bad, the ugly and the ignorant + how I’m really feeling about Fake the TV series.
August 3, 2024: Learning to read again by listening: Concentration shattered? Try this to rediscover the joy of immersion in a book.
From the archives: Making friends when you’re grown up: Why embedding yourself in a community is so vital (June 3, 2022).
From the archives: Incredible invisible women: Being a woman means being primed, prepped, abused, adored, harassed and worshipped, and then … it all stops (May 27, 2022).
From the archives: What I know about politics: … So many politicians are the best of people (May 20, 2022).
From the archives: And the cool kids laughed: The lifelong effects of being knock-kneed and butter-fingered (May 13, 2022).
July 26, 2024: Why don’t you just burn me already: That women without children are still vilified in the year 2024 shows how little progress we have made.
From the archives: I went to the sea, not the salon: Letting go of antiquated ideas about “good grooming” (May 6, 2022)
From the archives: Two dinner conversations, two stories: Antidotes to disappointing relationships (April 29, 2022).
From the archives: How to turn 30 again: (Hint: it involves morning meditation in a yurt) (March 14, 2022).
From the archives: Looking for an oyster farmer: … a slightly dissolute but knee-weakeningly hot oyster farmer (April 4, 2022).
From the archives: Perfect imperfect: Poor personal grooming and Birkenstocks with socks (March 24, 2022).
July 20, 2024: Not waving but drowning: A new wetsuit, an ocean rip, panic and I thought it was all over.
July 12, 2024: We need to talk about desire: And what happens when you let it die.
July 7, 2024: What it’s like to fall in love with a fake … Now this chapter of my life is playing out on TV, it’s the question everyone is asking me. The answer is complicated.
June 30, 2024: A grey Sunday in Sydney … Plus, a free subscription for a vintage word un-scrambler …
June 28, 2024: I’m back … and with exciting news: And so a television series was born …