I know you’re dying to find out how our Thanksgiving weekend went. Well I’m very pleased to report it was great. It was better than great. The plan to avoid the traffic…
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“Gobble, gobble.” That’s what the (very helpful and friendly) lady at the Post Office said to me last Friday as I posted a package for a friend. Thankfully I heard her say…
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I went to my first Kings game of the season last week. Great way to cure jet lag. I love watching the Ice Hockey, it’s so action-packed. (Going to a game of…
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I’m back from my amazing Aussie holiday that went by so (too) quickly. I had so many ideas for my first Blog post back and like I often do have written some…
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It’s the week before Halloween and it’s gripping LA. For most of October shops have been selling Halloween “cookies”, decorating kits to make-your-own cookies, decorations, purple-orange-and-black themed stuff, eyeballs and everything you…
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I mentioned last week that I’m part of one of those photo-a-day projects on Instagram (follow me I’m @itstartedinla). We were given a word per day and we had to capture that…
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I’ve been neglectful again because I had friends in town last week then a busy weekend catching up. But showing friends around LA is the very reason this Blog started–to share my…
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FOMO. A Fear of Missing Out. Why is it that I’ve only just learnt this term? For as long as I’ve been in tune with my inner self I have understood–quite categorically–that…
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One minute you’re organising a long weekend with your friends in Sydney the next minute you’re sitting in Row 13 at The Teen Choice Awards 2014. In LA. And not long after…
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It’s Friday afternoon, the kids have been picked up from school and you can feel the tension start to ease and the prospect of the weekend start to creep in. Not even…
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Another week and another visitor to show off our LA to last week. This time it was my niece coming over from Wales. My dad was from Wales and left home when…
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Ice-cream anyone? On a recent roadtrip back to LA from San Diego (via the Orange County beach suburbs) we got that ice-cream craving you get when it’s hot and you see water.…
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We had friends in town over the weekend (yes again!) and the whole family loved being out and about showing them “our LA”. Like me when I first came to LA many…
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Timeless elegance with a modern twist; serene yet “happening” the Hotel Bel-Air is a secret oasis in the heart of anything-but-modest Bel-Air. If you want to feel like…
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We came into last week with a big gigantic thud, hitting the ground rather unexpectedly because summer just came to an end for us. Sure of course we knew the dates but…
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That’s right, sadly our first US summer has come to an end. I know many people that would be jumping for joy at the thought of their kids back to school and…