Movies.Food. Weekend.

I just finished watching the 1st SATC movie on dvd but with the voice over commentary of Michael Patrick King who wrote and directed it. I found this really interesting. I never missed a tv episode (except the last because I was overseas in Dubai but I did eventually see it) Thanks M for lending it to me
I love the SATC franchise. I bought the videos, then the dvds, then the book. I met Candace Bushnell twice. I bought her books. All of them. I was excited to see an episode being shot when I was in New York.
Apparently a lot of people hated SATC when it was on tv. I'm not one of them.
The friendships were realistic. It showed women in their 30s and 40s looking great. It understood Singles. It realistically portrayed breakups. The whole thing spoke to me. Can't wait to see SATC2 on Thursday.
I ate this for lunch on Friday. I went out with some Coalface Colleagues. It was tasty but messy (the pasta not my fellow Coalminers).
On Friday night I went to Montrachet for drinks.
I love Montrachet. It is my favourite restaurant. Don't try to got there for the next 6 weeks though. It's shut.
On the way home I spotted this crazy flowering agave arrangement. It looked alien.

Yesterday I felt seedy and worn out.So when someone suggested Yum Cha, I ran, I didn't walk.

Behold all of this Restorative Yum Cha Goodness People:

This duck was Ducktastic

I love these sesame pudding-y things with red bean paste 11/10

Afterwards I met my girfriend M for a soothing pinor noir. I have the same scarf as her.

It was rainy and cold. Perfect soothing pinot weather really.

This is what the sky was doing. It was all very wintery and atttractive

Remember I was saying how Tammy and Malcolm Fraser were wonderful gardeners? Well I found this image of Tammy in her garden (How lovely is her hair by the way?) Behold the Gorgeousness. Gardening on a large scale in country conditions takes a lot of hard work, patience and determination. It really is a talent. I've asked this before but why are gardeners always such generous and kind people?

This image is from Country Living Magazine.

Last year my young whippersnapper friend S told me to watch Gran Torino with Clint Eastwood (she's full of Good Ideas- she got me onto Amaretto Sours). I finally saw it the other day on dvd and can tell you it is excellent. If you love Clint (I do) you'll really enjoy it. It's got everything a superior movie should have-good acting, a redemptive theme, lessons in tolerance, a cute dog, moments of humour....Run. Don't walk.

My life is not Glamorous: I have a bad feeling that I might have a mouse or worse a rat (crosses self). Having lived through the Great Rodent Plague of 2008 and successfully won I'd like to let any rodents in residence know that they should enjoy the next 24 hours of their lives because next week my Rat Guy from the Pest Control Company is scheduled to visit. Prepare to meet your maker because I have a strict zero tolerance policy and will be enforcing it with a zeal the likes of which this suburb has never seen before (well at least since 2008). My Rat Guy says that you are never more than 3 metres from a rat anywhere in the inner city. Nice.

On that Happy Note, I've got to go to change the light shades in my kitchen. Enjoy your Sunday.

xxx

Wednesday.

Hello. I wore this baby doll/tent style frock arrangement to the Coalface today. It cost $29 and has Bells and Whistles Galore- bows, collars, broderie anglais, sheer sleeves, the Whole Shebang. My Polish is OPI's Lincoln Park After Dark which is probably my favourite. My friend Mark told me it's Kim Kardashian's too. Who knew?


The top and sleeves of this frock remind me a bit of this Chloe top arrangement that you've seen me wear before. When you're onto a Good Thing, Stick to It.

Meanwhile, you know how I love Pucci (It's the Official Print of the Blog)

Well, a reader helpfully told me that theoutnet.com is having a big Pucci sale. I looked but because I'm embracing thrift I won't be buying. Plus the dollar is rubbish these days. But if you go to the site be sure to look at This. That's right People, Nicole Richie is wearing the same Pucci print as me. I wonder if Rachel Zoe bought it for her?

Meanwhile Sex and the City 2 is out. I'm going to 2 screenings. One next week with my friend Amber to raise money for leukaemia and then the Coalface Social Club Screening the week after.

I'm looking forward to the clothes. I started watching the tv show in the late 90s when it 1st came to Australia. I'd just got divorced and was hanging with my single girlfriends, so it spoke to me. I missed the last episode in November 2004 because I was in Dubai. When I came home I watched it on video and felt kind of disappointed that Carrie had ended up with Mr Big. It seemed unrealistic somehow. I never liked Aiden, I loved Stanford and I thought Miranda got the best lines. I also was endlessly amused by Bunny and Magda (also brilliant lines) I've mentioned this a million times, but I've met Candace Bushell twice. I asked her if it was true that SJP was a wowser and CB said "What's a Wowser?" (Allegedly it's true)

Malcolm Fraser's resigned form the Liberal Party I see. His wife Tammy is a brilliant gardener and has a beautiful country garden chock full of roses that I love. I tried to find a photo to post but I couldn't.

Meanwhile don't think I'm the only person at the Coalface keen on clothes. My colleague N collects clobber from the Golden Years of Hollywood. He has an impressive collection. Go see it here.

Cheerio x

Movies. Grocery Shopping. Pruning. Decluttering.

Usually I go to movies by myself, but this morning, Mr FF and I went together and saw "Have you heard about the Morgans" with Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker. Mr FF/Mario Testino snapped this artsy photo of me walking upstairs to the cinema. We were the only people there except for about 5 others. This is why I like a 10am session. I know some people hate going to movies alone but I love it. I'd give this movie 2 1/2 stars out of 5. There were some funny bits but I was a bit distracted by SJP's hands and as usual Hugh was typecast as the Bumbling Brit in America. The set dresser did a lovely job on the Manhattan apartment with a view over the park and I loved listening to Stevie Wonder belting out the Beatles "We can work it out" as the credits rolled. I'm going to download it onto my ipod. Fascinating Fact: I once saw SJP in Real Life. I was in New York in May 2003 and saw her and Kim Cattral filming a scene for Sex and The City outside Saks 5th Avenue. I got a really good photo. She is teeny tiny in real life. It was from the episode where Carrie is telling Samantha about Berger and his crazy reaction to an answering machine message from his ex.
Then Mr FF and I did a grocery shop. It came to $300! Is it just me or have grocery prices gone insane? I did a shopping list and a meal plan and the cost at the register was still Nothing Less Than an Outrage. When did Australia's cost of living go through the roof? On a sad note, if you look you can see the red welts from the blue bottle jelly fish sting on his right leg. Poor thing.
When I got home the Decluttering Bug Hit me Hard so I grabbed my secateurs and hedge trimmers and started pruning the FF Garden like a woman possessed. I was wearing a silk Pucci shirt but don't worry- I put an apron on first. Mr FF offered support via cups of black coffee and diet gingerale. I found some pretty things like this pale pink pentas hidden under dense rain induced foliage. I love gingers and my Porcelain Ginger is sending out spiky bluish purple flowers. I grew this from a cutting that my friend ZZ gave me. Isn't it divine?
My giant Spathiphyllums (Peace Lilies) are flowering too. Some varmit is eating their leaves though which is infuriating.

I pruned my beehive ginger leaves and fronds. Those leaves in the photo don't belong to the ginger they are clivias. I love their leathery dark green glossy foliage. I have tonnes of shade in my garden so they do quite well.

I'm still trawling through old albums and removing the photos, tying them in bundles with white ribbon (I've run out of pink) and putting them in my pleather boxes. It is a numbingly boring task. I cannot wait until it is over.

Keep Going Declutterers!

xxx