On the rain-soaked Mid North Coast I am contemplating decisions. Last night I decided to enter a blogging competition. It involved picking my three best posts. It was a bit like asking me to pick my favourite child. How the hell do you choose? In the end I went with: The One Where I Try To Exercise Farewell Abbey Homework An … [Read more...]
Designing A Perfect Life
Ages ago I wrote a post asking what is a perfect life? It seems a lot of people are seeking the answer to that question because it's the number one search term used to find my blog, just above "how do you make smores". I often think how disappointed the searchers must be to discover a middle-aged woman arguing with her teens, wondering what the … [Read more...]
Love and Other Injuries
Whenever someone refers to me as "Mrs W" it always means trouble. Having never adopted my married name when people start the conversation with "Are You Mrs W" it means either a telemarketer trying to sell me something or my husband has another crisis. The last time I was addressed in such a way it was a cardiologist informing me my husband had had … [Read more...]
Monday Morning Photo – Howdy
We've featured kangaroos, dolphins, goannas and whales on this blog before, but we've never had a koala. Here's one saying a peek-a-boo hello, after my brother got her off a busy road and guided her toward a tree. How was/is your weekend, ours was action packed with a visit to the theatre and some friends over on Sunday for a bbq. What did you … [Read more...]
Animal Farm
Yesterday here at Shambles Manor it was all butterflies and flowers as I wrote a lovely post to my eldest daughter in honour of her 16th birthday. Today, well the atmosphere has grown decidedly icy, you could grow stalagmites. You see, turns out I am an evil mother. At the last-minute I purchased tickets to see a play, without consulting, … [Read more...]
Sweet Sixteen
Dear Hippie Child In 1997 John Howard was Prime Minister, Princess Di was still on the magazine covers, Barbie Girl was a hit song and The Castle was making us laugh in the cinema. Meanwhile at the old Royal Women's Hospital in Paddington a woman, with a pain threshold so low ripping off a bandaid could generate bouts of hysterical weeping, … [Read more...]
Woman and Choices
The whole "can women have it all" debate is up and running again. Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Julie Bishop, stated in an interview this weekend that women can't have it all. "I'm in the Anne-Marie Slaughter school - women can't have it all. They can have plenty of choices, but at the end of the day, they choose something which means they … [Read more...]
Monday Morning Photo – Ouch
A new week dawns. A big week ahead. We are fully into the the swing of school and after-school activities now. I miss holidays. I hope your week is bountiful and beautilicious. (Ok I made that last word up - but have a good one). … [Read more...]
Writer’s Block
At 8.45am this morning I sat at the computer ready to write my blog post and .... nothing. I think they call it writer's block. It's an unusual state for me to be in, usually I have a million and one ideas and the challenge is picking ONE to focus on. Today, nadah, zilch, nothing. It's now 2.56pm and my "day to myself", you know the one … [Read more...]
Trapped in an Automated Hell
I miss human beings. You know those brave souls who used to man the customer service hotlines for the big companies, the telcos, the electricity, the banks and god forbid Centrelink (the place that handles the Government payments to the unemployed, the ill and families). I seem to have spent weeks trying to sort out an assortment of issues with … [Read more...]
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