Hi Mate

Whoa! I have so much to say! First, when you told me JFo had a Gwyneth look at the Emma's I really imagined her dress to be pastel pink but you're right. Even with that fuchsia she still looks GOOPy. Shit, a 70-year-old woman can look how she wants.  Any woman can. Even Leigh Sales.  I enjoy a cup of tea and a price of chocolate before bed sometimes too. Though sometimes I prefer milk to tea.  Makes the treat a little richer. And healthy cause of the calcium.  Speaking of sweet treats I tried your day-old orange polenta cake.  After a day it was a little dry and I guess my feeling was that the polenta doesn't really doing a cake any favours but perhaps I'd feel differently if I'd eaten it fresh. I look forward to hearing what you have to say about it. I can't believe the icing got that colour from blood orange juice! Fantastic! But mostly I was interested to hear what you had to say about the Ostro woman. Of course I know her. Of her. I don't ...

So Mate, I thought I'd respond to the above text here, rather than there as I guess I have more to say than thumbs up emoji, though I do want to say that too.  How exciting that you bought Sweet and how exciting that soon you will have it and soon you will bake from it! I wonder what the first cab off the rank will be.  I am fully intending to buy it, but I bought this other book recently and have been cooking lots of things from it.  Do you know this woman, Mate? She is part of that Melbourne food/design scene I guess. She's friends with Gemma. She lives in Brunswick and I follow her on instagram so I feel like I know her in the way one does in these weird times we live in. So when it came to handing over cash for Ottolenghi or Julia, I felt like I should buy Julia first.  I've made a couple of savory and a couple of sweet numbers from her book and so far they've all been simple and pretty darn delicious. I've been trying to put my finger on what's good about ...

Gosh, I know how Freddie feels. I usually have a couple of pieces of chocolate with my cup of tea before bed. Sometimes I fall asleep on the couch well before it's a reasonable time for tea and then wake up with a start and wonder what's going on. I know I should just get up off the couch and get into bed. But I usually stay up so I can have my chocolate and tea. I just don't want to give up that little slice of pleasure, even though it's fleeting and being asleep in bed is longer lasting. I guess Freddie is the same . I'm afraid I have no up to date knowledge of Alberici and Sales' wardrobes. But here is a picture of Jane Fonda at the Emmys last week...see what I mean about the GOOPyness of this look?  There's a couple behind me on the train debating whether Tim Curry had a stroke but is still acting, or whether he's dead. They're two very specific options amongst so many. 

Tonight as I was putting Freddie to bed he told me he really wanted to sleep in my bed so I told him he could but he couldn't have his bedtime booby if he did. He still has a bedtime boob which we are trying to phase out mainly by talking about phasing it out. He really agonised over it. Stay in his bed and have a feed or go to my bed with no feed. He put his finger to his lips and said "Mmmmm" really thinking about it and then asked something which I couldn't understand. It sounded like "What the dilemma is?" Which seemed apt but a little too advanced and then I realised he'd asked "What's the yummiest?" In other thoughts I've had I wonder who's in charge of ABC news wardrobe. Why does Emma Alberici always look so good while Leigh Sales just looks terrible?

Sometimes I wonder if it's unhealthy or unnatural how deeply I think about Ewan sometimes. But then I get distracted. You know like "Is it weird that I think about Ewan so deeply? Ewan..." Destination reached. Mate, we're definitely in the middle of the lives and changing direction is going to be hard. Like changing careers will be a bit hard. Changing other things will be harder. I wish I'd lived away from Melbourne more when I was younger. Now I have children to worry about, their schooling to worry about, money to worry about. It's not impossible to do this but the implications are much broader. So I probably won't do much to change my life. Not in bold movements anyway. Not for now at least. But you know I just think about Elena Greco. I know she's fictional, but lives are long and much can be done in them. Meanwhile my hair is greying a lot around my hairline. The unattractiveness of this coarse grey hair is exacerbated by the fact I also have...

I. I'm pretty sure I had a dream about Ewan after I read your last post, Mate. Or maybe I just thought about him, deeply, and so it felt like a dream. Either way, it's all pretty pleasant, though I agree that it's somehow weird that Ewan is hot and someone's dad. Weird, but true. Like the fact that Brad Pitt used to be married to Jennifer Aniston. That's weird, right? Anyway, I've been thinking about age a lot lately. How we're in the middle of our lives, so we're at a point where some things are too late, broadly speaking. I mean, it's not like it's too late to make changes that we really really want to make...to our careers or what have you. But we're at an age where changing the direction of the ship would be a bigger deal than before, and will become an increasingly bigger deal from now on. We're not quite technically middle aged, but we're definitely in the middle of our lives. Not young, and not old. Realistically, the landsca...

So this blog has been live for a couple of weeks now and I guess it's time we talked about Ewan. The other night I was just scrolling through Instagram and a picture that Ewan posted was credited to his daughter Clara and I thought I'd just take a look at her Insta account. It's basically exactly the same as the account of every other daughter of a famous person that grew up in LA. Selfies of her in a bikini or in jeans and a t-shirt and occasional photos of her just chilling with her buds. I'm sure you've seen this kind of account before. The only noticeable difference is that Ewan McFuckingGregor (AKA her dad) comments on a lot of the pics. One of the first pictures I looked at was a picture of Clara and underneath Ewan had commented "My beautiful girl. x" I have to say, it was kind of confronting. Like, I know that Ewan is a real person with a wife and kids and everything but it was really weird to see him just respond to his adult daughter's In...