Last night the television program Q & A featured an all-female panel. It was an interesting mix of old-school feminism (Germaine Greer), conservative commentator (Janet Albrechtsen), indigenous opera singer (Deborah Cheetham), former sex worker (Dr Brooke Magnanti) and online publisher (Mia Freedman). It was somewhat disappointing to … [Read more...]
Weekly Photo Challenge – Colour
This week's photo challenge is colour. There's a flurry of colour at Canberra's Floriade. The grungy colour of Newtown's graffiti. The calming blue of the ocean. And the pretty pastels of mother nature. … [Read more...]
Fads, Flu and other F Words
This evening's post is brought to you courtesy of Codral (not in any monetary sense just in the dosed up sense). I'm quickly succumbing to the flu and in amongst the sneezing, coughing and feverish ramblings I decided to write a blog post. So you can all guess how this is going to turn out, can't you? Probably best to reach for the remote or … [Read more...]
Weekly Photo Challenge – A Day In My Life
Every Day Life I'm way late to the party with this week's photo challenge but I'm chucking it in anyway. The challenge this week was to use our phones to record a day in our life. This was how Easter Saturday played out in our house. There was washing to be done (good God it's neverending). There was driving the Hippie … [Read more...]
Dorrigo Rainforest
While I was hold up in a country hall listening to writers debate, discuss and dissect life as we know it, my family went sightseeing. They headed off to Dorrigo. The Hippie Child, with her newly acquired "L" plates took the wheel. The Princess Child sat in the back writing her last will and testament ... not that she didn't trust her sister's … [Read more...]
Chocolate
I ate an entire box of chocolates in one day and I didn't share them with anyone. It was Easter, which I know is about Jesus and stuff, but heathens that we are it tends to be about the chocolate in our house. It was a bit of a dud Easter to be honest. A case of gastro put paid to our usual family lunch. So in the end we sat around on the … [Read more...]
Books and Writers
I spent the weekend before Easter at the Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival. Bellingen is a beautiful town on the Bellinger River. It has a tiny population of just 2,721 but bats above it's weight in terms of community. It also has a cafe strip to rival any city - this is a place that loves its coffee. This year the Bellingen Readers and … [Read more...]
Ageing
It is a lamentable state of being, this ageing thing. There are lumps and bumps. Aches and creaks. Mysterious stabs of pain that are nothing, or could be something, who knows. Your knees go on you, then your back gets dodgy. Tomorrow I'm back to the optometrist to pick up my MULTIFOCAL glasses. It wasn't bad enough that whoever is running this … [Read more...]
Monday Morning Photo – Easter Sun Rise
It's Easter Monday here and raining, Mr Shambles should be getting soaked on his early morning fishing expedition. We've been lucky over the weekend it's been overcast at times but yesterday we even saw some sun. This is a photo my brother took at Flynns Beach yesterday morning at 6.48am. Looks like the sky is on fire! Hope you are all having … [Read more...]
Bucket Lists and Bloopers
Remember when I worked out my bucket list and one of the items on the list was set foot on each of the seven continents? There isn't the faintest possibility of that happening, not while we are living in a financial black hole of casual jobs and owner building. So imagine my surprise when I saw My Destination's Biggest Baddest Bucket List … [Read more...]
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