gone fishing



I'm off to the country again this weekend (man, I could really get used to these mini-break vaycays). And I actually need this little holiday. I can't wait to have big fry-up breakfasts, sit by the fire, catch up with friends and forget all about Sydney. See you soon! 

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breakfast with Thursday Sunday



Crisp breeze, first meetings, endless chatter, the perfect plate of rolly-polly scrambled eggs, knitted blankets draped over knees to keep warm and the promise of big things to come. That was breakfast at Youeni Foodstore with Thursday Sunday this week! So nice to meet the best friends and collaborators behind one of my favourite Australian labels. See you soon!

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cinematic style - Tom Hanks in Sleepless in Seattle


I've been meaning to post about Sleepless in Seattle for a little while but I couldn't find any screencaps and I couldn't work out what I wanted to say. It's really sad that today, when I did, I find out that Nora Ephron - the movie's screenwriter and director, as well as the writer of other fantastic films like When Harry Met Sally and probably one of my favourites, You've Got Mail (in this article they call it "slight", but I would say it's small but perfectly formed, just like Kathleen Kelly's shop around the corner) - has passed away at age 71. More than being the author and creator of many cinematic moments that defined my teenage years and informed my growth, whether romantically, or dramatically, or in literature or in life, she is someone who has always inspired me to be a better writer. Her writing was good, and real, and true. I still remember seeing the play that her and her sister adapted from one of my favourite books "Love, Loss and What I Wore" and thinking yes, clothes can define your life, and you don't have to be shallow or silly or flippant to believe that. I remember reading her book "I Remember Nothing" and seeing the list that formed the last few pages of the book. In the things she would not miss column was email, dry skin and washing her hair. In the things she would miss column was driving over the bridge to manhattan. Pie. The concept of waffles.

I'm not old enough yet to appreciate her book "I feel bad about my neck" but I am excited for the day when I am. For now, for me, it will always be about the way Ephron spun a story out of everyday emotions and made it feel so real. It will always be about her love affair with New York. It will always be about the way that she connected with her stars and coaxed the kind of performances from them that you never, ever, ever forget. Meg Ryan in You've Got Mail. Tom Hanks in Sleepless in Seattle. Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally. Meryl Streep in Julie and Julia. It will always be about the way she wrote for real life without any pretension at all, the way her characters said the things they ought to say, in ways that meant something. Joe Fox. F.O.X. That one scene in When Harry Met Sally when Harry tells her that men and women can never be friends because the "sex thing" always gets in the way. That moment in Julie and Julia when Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci sit on that tiny little bed in their French apartment and her feet hang over the side. Daisies for Kathleen Kelly, because daisies are the friendliest flower. About how you get better at love as you get older, that you fall for the way someone takes an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I liked the way this article put it. That all her movies are not so much about making inconceivable, once-in-a-lifetime connections, but rather about believing in the possibility of making those connections. Amidst all the melancholy and the sadness and the despair that exists in these movies - death and bankruptcy and broken hearts - her character always have faith.

I don't really have anything to say about Tom Hanks' style in this movie, other than that it was the kind of casual, all-American sportswear that he suits so well. Bomber jackets and tapered slacks and sloppy joes and suede jackets and all of that good stuff to battle windy, wet weather living on a houseboat in the middle of Lake Union. Style that's perfectly suited to a character who cries at the end of the Dirty Dozen (and what a great scene this is, completely improvised, completely natural, completely perfect in every single way). Nora Ephron, you had class and style and wit and talent and your movies really matter to so many different people and you will definitely, most, most definitely be missed. Rest in peace.

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daily

Speaking of uniforms... This would be the dream one. A wardrobe filled only with La Garconne Moderne, supplemented with bags from The Row, beautiful ballet flats and sandals and a piece of jewellery or two. The only thing that changes? Your perfume every day. La Garconne Moderne is exactly how I like to dress - oversized, overblown, comfortable and easy, with plenty of room to move around in. Flat shoes and a big bag would complete an outfit for me. This dream future is so perfect I don't know how the reality is ever going to live up to it. Here's to never-ending wardrobes filled with the kind of clothes you can live in! 


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getaway


one. country breakfasts of eggs and bacon and freshly squeezed orange juice. we got up early and jammed in the kitchen to mix 106.5 and played episodes of Friends in the background as we fried up this feast! 
two. only the essentials when you getaway. Benah Tara bag from My Chameleon, Sunglasses, a candle, lip balm and a good book.
three. Oh boy, I'm gonna miss that view.

Getaways to the country really are some kind of wonderful. Rachel you were so right! More country weekends in front of the fire, relaxing and drinking cider and watching circle of friends and burning maison balzac candles, please!

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uniform



Lately I've found myself reaching for the same kinds of clothes over and over again. Since I picked up these Bassike track pants ages ago - a complete impulse purchase, but how they have proved their worth - I pretty much haven't stopped wearing them, especially with my favourite no-name sweater and my Amy Kaehne coat now that the temperatures have sufficiently dropped. Adding this loop-de-loop Benah cashmere scarf is another cold weather coping mechanism. I love how you don't have to worry about ends flying everywhere (always a cautionary tale for me, who can trip over anything). You can even twist it a third time to be extra cosy. But the newest edition to this uniform is something quite different. When I first saw this Samma ear cuff from My Chameleon something just clicked in my head. Often my favourite pieces in my wardrobe are things that I didn't even have to think twice about - those Bassike track pants and this oatmeal sweater are two very good examples of that. And let's add the Samma ear cuff to this growing list. It's not something that I would normally go for, but there's something about that unexpected flash of gold as I tuck my hair behind my ears. It's no Repossi ear cuff, but it's got a certain kind of understated charm that is all it's own. And I'm addicted! I don't think I'm ever going to take it off.

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is this heaven on earth?



Bread and Circus, you delicious food emporium, you. I wish I knew how to quit you.

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deadlines



I'm on deadline and I wish I could say that my life is looking like this at the moment - all cashmere cardigans and endless cups of tea and writing cross-legged on the kitchen bench - but really I'm a mess on my couch in sweatshirt and 20-year old Bath tee shirt watching The Voice finale (which probably isn't at all helpful for the quality of my prose, hmpphhh) and desperately trying to NOT tweet a million times how much I love Keith Urban (sorry. I caved. once). Maybe when I live in New York in an airy, light-filled Soho loft writing will look properly glamorous. But until then I'm happy with hair bunched up on my head and holes in my tee shirt and another glass of ice-cold milk.

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VIP sale



If you have a free saturday tomorrow I'm very jealous of your delicious, delicious day off. And if you have some free time I would love it if you could swing by the Benah VIP sale. I'll be there on the day, so if you stop by to grab a kodi cuff or cashmere wrap for yourself please say hi! Benah is one of my favourite accessories labels, and I'd love to see you, if only so you can grab up a little slice of Benah for yourselves.

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cinematic style - Jeff Bridges in The Fabulous Baker Boys


The Fabulous Baker Boys is one of those underrated 1980s movies that makes me sad to think that this world is only 20 years away and yet, and yet. So close yet so far. How many supper clubs exist nowadays? How many people go to hotels to hear jazz music sung by breathy wannabes? It's not just those oversized coats and that frizzy hair and those triple bourbons straight up that have gone well and truly south. God this movie made me wanna listen to jazz all day, all night, every day and smoke those Paris Opals, 17-and-a-half-cent-apiece cigarettes (man, cigarettes were $3.50 a packet? times have changed) and swear like a sailor. And I did, for a little while, anyway. 

Maybe I should just re-title this post Cinematic Hunk. Look at him! Yeah, yeah, yeah, the clothes are great. Whatever. Big jackets. Tuxedos and cummerbunds. Black, black, black aviators with no rims. Collars turned up. White cuffs. Red shirts. Brown shoes. Jackets thrown over the back of chairs. Who cares. Look at Jeff Bridges! He's got that Robert Redford golden thing going on, except just that little bit dirtier. He drinks like a fish, and he sucks on those cigarettes like it's the end of the world (always has, always will baby) and he's just looking for trouble. He's so bad.  The kind of guy that you can't stay away from but, oh, you know he's all types of wrong. The kind of guy who tells you "there's always another girl", even after one of the sexiest scenes in the history of film. Just like in Crazy Heart - just like in any movie, ever - Jeff Bridges plays someone you can't love, but you want to, you really, really want to. Because hidden in those deep pockets, behind that popped collar, somewhere in that greased-up hair there's this. Maybe you just gotta be Michelle Pfeiffer, you know?

Watch this movie. It's almost too good.

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the row


I'm not sure any of this technically classifies as Resort, unless I'm on a summer vacation to somewhere in England where it rains all the time, in which case I'll probably need some Hunter gumboots and a hat, and a really good book, and the Olsen twins are probably the only people in the whole world who can make a glossy fur hoodie socially acceptable, but hey, isn't that trench coat something special, and isn't that mossy green and rich navy combo kind of brilliant, and don't you just want to wear low-slung baggy pants and contrast-lapel shirts every day for the rest of your life? Or maybe that's just me.

The Row Resort 2013

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gone fishing



In food - as in fashion, as in life - it's all about character. Fantastic food served in boring, drab locations can only ever reach the half-way point. Where (and how, and why) you dine is almost as important as what you dine on. I said almost as important, and I mean that. The character of a place; somewhere where the waiters where stripey breton tops (this is a fish restaurant, after all), and the tables are cast-iron benches, and there's fishing wire and rope everywhere and miniature penguin figurines and it looks like the inside of some billionaire playboy from the 1970s 60-foot yacht - well, the character of the place adds to the dining experience. But it only adds, it can't create one. Because at the heart of those faux-plastic plates and baking paper swathed mains is the slippery, flip-flopping fact that good, fresh seafood is really what you'll get here. Buckets of prawns with a tartare dipping sauce, all of that good deep-fried, beer-battered shit, garlic-y cuttlefish, mussels in apple cider and much much more, depending on what they bought at the market and how they're feeling in the morning. That's the kind of seafood you want. The kind that's so fresh it still smells like the sea.  The kind that's so good it leaves you feeling warm and satisfied and happy, with just enough room left over for an ice cream sandwich or a coupe of coconut sorbet and palm sugar syrup.

The Fish Shop, 22 Challis Ave Potts Point

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