Holly Wainwright

2 days ago | mamamia.com.au | Holly Wainwright

And obviously, that's rain, hail or shine? Christmas and birthdays? Grant: Yep, that's rain, hail or shine — seven days a week, 365 days a year. Who gets to decide who has to go out at 4.30 on Christmas Day? Grant: Generally, Christmas day, we start even earlier just to get done. There's a lot of family that'll come in for Christmas, so we can enjoy the day, and then we usually get back around 3 or 3.30 for the afternoon milking, which tends to be quicker so we can get back home.

2 weeks ago | mamamia.com.au | Holly Wainwright

I have a friend who thinks I'm not always the best mother. She thinks I'm a bit slap-dash. A bit inconsistent. That I'm not across the details enough, and that for children, details matter. She thinks that out of guilt, I indulge my kids a bit. She's right. I have a friend who thinks I can be a bit selfish. That emotional labour isn't my strong suit, and it wouldn't kill me to lift my head and organise a birthday dinner every now and again. She's right.

1 month ago | mamamia.com.au | Holly Wainwright

So if you're Meghan and Harry, that means that well as your (reported, all these figures are reported) AU$160 million agreement with Netflix and your AU$40 million deal with Spotify and your AU$64 million book deal with Penguin Random House, and your lifestyle brand and your AU$16 million inheritance from your mother and the AU$19 million from your grandmother, you might still want to cream a little profit off a skirt you wear that someone else made seems a bit… grasping.

1 month ago | mamamia.com.au | Holly Wainwright

The synergy, of learning what things go together and which should be kept apart. Why you want to repel these insects, for example, but encourage others. See, I am a wanker. I used the word synergy. We're done here. But you get it. You can't see any of those things, but they're everything. Gardening makes me happy. And I am very rarely happy when I am watching myself from the outside, and worrying about what I look like, what I'm wearing.

1 month ago | mamamia.com.au | Holly Wainwright

This brings us to the pool. Jaclyn — whose confidence is already shaky, because her younger actor husband has been mysteriously hard to reach while she's been away — realises that the other people at this supposedly "vibey" cocktail spot are old. Like, proper old. Not in numbers (although theirs are doubtless higher than hers), but in body. In face. In vibe. First she notices the women. Their kaftans and playsuits might be the same swirling Camilla-y prints as hers, but the skin inside them is crepey.