Posts Categorized: Humour

Over the Edge

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As a parent I’ve calmly dealt with trips to the emergency with gaping head wounds, years of sleep deprivation, toddler meltdowns in the supermarket, building resilience in a bullied child, I’ve negotiated, reprimanded, encouraged, guided. Basically, I’ve been a paragon of virtuous calm and sense in the maelstrom of family life. (Well that’s my version… Read more »

Alphabet Soup

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So I tried to work my way through the alphabet in the A to Z Challenge. I got to S before the internet dropped out and the family went into meltdown, wandering aimlessly around the house with zombie-like expressions on their face declaring “there’s nothing TO DOOOO, we have no internet!!!”. It’s probably for the… Read more »

Laughter

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What makes you laugh? When was the last time you had a good giggle? Humour is so subjective isn’t it? When a comedian bombs with a joke the silence from the audience is very awkward, but when they nail it the house rocks! This week I’ve laughed at: A piece doing the rounds called Growing… Read more »

Ideas

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I’m an ideas person. Ideas, I’ve got a million. Execution and follow-up not so strong. But I can think outside the square. Come up with solutions to your problems (probably better at solving your problems than my own but that’s OK). Watching TV last night I came up with one of my best ideas ever!… Read more »

Ageing

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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… Read more »

Harlem Shaking and Bellingen Boots

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It takes a special kind of crazy to book yourself into two conferences, back-to-back over five days, 412 kilometres apart. Then as if it’s not difficult enough, you invite the family to accompany you to one of those conferences. I’ve just spent five days listening to an assortment of creative people talk about their experiences… Read more »

Household Tips For The Domestically Challenged

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I’m not sure how it happened. One minute I was keeping my surname, planning a career, ready to take on the world the next I was living in the suburbs with two little aliens (some people would call them children, they would be wrong). The irony of my becoming a housewife induced side-splitting laughter amongst… Read more »

Winning, Losing and Everything In Between

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This month the family and I have eaten our body weight in a particular ice-cream confectionary. There’s still a few more boxes to get through before we have completed the challenge. Then I don’t think any of us will ever eat one again. You see there’s a competition, you could win $100,000. So in the… Read more »

Animal Farm

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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… Read more »