LEAP OF FAITH

Do you remember Sliding Doors starring Gwyneth Paltrow? If you take the first train, your life goes one way, if you take the next train, an entirely different future plays out. When people ask what made us move our entire family and life to Australia during a global pandemic, I suppose it was like my very own Sliding Doors moment, with many twists and turns on the way.

Let’s take it back a year. I have worked in fashion and lived in London for more than 20 years with my husband Matthew. He is in finance and together we have been on that roller-coaster of international life for longer than I can remember. From working as a fashion journalist to editor at Net-a-Porter and most recently as chief content officer at Matchesfashion, we have been hooked on that intoxicating cocktail of London-work-family-buzz. In those years of working all hours, travelling the globe at a rate of knots and living and breathing the business I was in, we also prioritised having a family. We wanted to create a happy home full of our children, their friends, our friends and family. We have