saturdays are for love

Who would have thought that we could have pulled it together, after cancellation after cancellation, and all of it a SURPRISE? Only for you, RKB. A kitchen tea for the ladies, at our favourite place, with our favourite people, just before you get a(nother) ring put on you. Who would have thought we could have done it - betterthanchiswick lamb, nigel's mistress chicken, a coconut dream cake, and pavlova with all the trimmings, just the way it should be - and all with maximal minimal stress. We pull out the stops when we do it for love. Afternoons like this are the ones that make the working week worthwhile, the ones that you get up every morning at 6.45 for. They're the ones that never end, even when the rain starts to drizzle down mere metres away and the staff start to get out the mops and clean up around you. Lucky we have friends in high places that let us linger, eh? If only it could always be just like this.

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today is cancelled

garance dore

I wish. I'm at work in a big sweater and ill-advised birkenstocks (it's pouring down outside, and a little bit inside too, hmmm), and just trying to stay warm. The only upside? My work is inside sydney's best new cafe. Now that definitely helps.

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how could I ever?

@hannahroserose

'We would not leave our native home
For any world beyond the Tomb.'

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kinfolk

Olivia Rae James

Next week me and Rachel are going to a kinfolk lunch. Are we excited? Oh yeah. Are we ready? Ready for new friends at a shared table, for Kangaroo Valley in all its sweet simplicity, for the picturesque, for the exquisite, for the spectacular, for the kind of afternoon that we dream of? Oh yeah. We were born ready.

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much too hot for me

It's much too hot for jeans today but I literally cannot stop wearing blue denim and black birkenstocks. It's just easy. I handed in my full draft to my supervisor yesterday and now I have a day of grace before I get the comments back and have to hit the ground running. So, naturally, instead of doing any of the million things I have stacked up in my mental to-do list, I read in bed all morning and drank ice-cold water through a straw. I'm not great in the heat, but on days like this I don't mind it, not at all.

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winter favourites

Grown Alchemist hand cream // I Love Mr Mittens popeye beanie // Porselli ballet flats from My Chameleon // Ray Ban clubmasters from Vision Direct // Serge Lutens Five O'Clock au Gingembre and BRVTVS small three bar and two bar ear cuffs

When I was in Tasmania I lived on a steady diet of these little things. A beanie to keep my head warm, sunglasses to shield my eyes, a spicy fragrance and rich handcream and a few little bits of gold for a touch of glamour. Sydney has well and truly bid farewell to winter and is ringing in the warmer months shamelessly. I've even seen a few lucky people eating mangoes at uni. But, true to form, I'm going to cling to the last vestiges of winter while I still can. Farewell cold weather, I knew thee well.

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to market

park and cube

Remembering that time me and Rachel went to the flower market on the hottest day of summer and how my hair smelt like peonies for days and we ate a breakfast plate in the sun at 8 am and felt like we had accomplished so much already and how it really was the best day ever.

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beautiful blooms

flower drum // luisa brimble // flower drum

Hurry up, November.

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