Money & Career

We spend a lot of money on food, don’t we? We know we should eat at home more, but we just can’t seem to find the time to make those meals from scratch.

Lately, every time it rains, the drain in our basement bathroom backs up. One very rainy night last week we called in a plumber to see if he could figure out what was wrong. He put a tiny camera down the drain and through the pipes as my husband and I looked on anxiously. “Wow” the guy said as the camera snaked its way under our basement floor. “Clearly a do-it-yourself job.”

Career advice: Connie DeSousa traded her ballet shoes for chef’s whites and a cleaver. Now she’s one of three women turning up the heat on Top Chef Canada.

I learned everything I know about shopping from my Mum. She has a great eye and can find something fabulous in places you’d never think to look. But while my Mum loves beautiful things, they’re not really what she wants for Mother’s Day.

My day started badly. I had an email with some really negative feedback on the first stage of a big project I’m working on. My first instinct was to go back to bed and pull the covers over my head. But that wasn’t an option with a conference call starting in 10 minutes and a whole pile of work to motor through by 5pm.