I'm a hunter and gatherer underneath this slick, city girl exterior.

Saturday morning I spotted THE MOST GORGEOUS coat I have ever seen for Marianna at Myer Hornsby. She had to have it! I had to have it! Outrageously they did not have it in her size! Horror!

Sunday morning, after dropping Will off at the Chinese Gardens at Darling Harbour for a birthday party (they have certainly moved on somewhat from the fairy bread, chocolate crackle and pass the parcel celebrations of my youth) I decided to brave the city with a toddler in tow in order to check Myer City store for the aforementioned coat.

There is nothing more sweat inducing than lugging 12kgs of whining toddler, who refuses to ride in her stroller or walk, through city streets, to the monorail station and beyond. Apart from the actual monorail ride, where we both sat happily admiring Sydney from the window, the rest was pure hard slog.

Nevertheless, after an eternity looking through every rack in the children's department, buying a couple of other outfits having not found the frigging coat, going to the toilet, returning from the toilet and - drum roll please - seeing the coat IN THE CORRECT FUCKING SIZE laying innocently on top of a pile of older children's clothes in a previously undiscovered area. I don't know what winning Lotto is like but this was so very very close to that feeling. Better still Myer was having one of their many and varied sale days (if you've ever paid full price for anything in Myer you've been had) and the $49.95 coat only cost $31.95.

Life really doesn't get ANY BETTER THAN THIS!!