The phone rang this morning. It was a drama. Back in the day, the phone was a large black rotary dial model ATTACHED to the wall you never lost it. Yes children you read that right, the phone was physically ATTACHED to the wall. It was in a high traffic area of the home (ours was in the lounge room at the start of the hallway). If you wanted to … [Read more...]
So This Is Dieting
I have no idea how I got to the point where I am on a DIET. What, me? Thin, skinny me? Oh that's right an accidental glimpse in a mirror as I pass by reveals the image in my head bears little resemblance to the reality. Somehow, when I wasn't looking I gained weight. Slight gains over a long period of time culminated with the bathroom … [Read more...]
Keeping The Home Fires Burning
I've been left with just one job to do today. I've got to keep the fire going. You see Mr Shambles was determined that our house would have a wood fire. Memories of his childhood and all that. So he went and built a massive fireplace. Then tiled it with a jigsaw of slate. He had to get Hippie Child to work out where each bit should go, his … [Read more...]
Nightmare
Horror movie right there on my TV - Skyhooks Once again morning television is awash with images from an unimaginable tragedy on the other side of the world. Two bombs going off in the crowd of the Boston Marathon. It's almost twelve years since we saw the planes crash into the twin towers. The feelings come rushing back, fear, disbelief. Back … [Read more...]
Kindness
The other day I was rushing to get to an appointment I was nervous about. In my hurry I dropped a glass bottle of soft drink and it smashed to smithereens on the footpath. I put down my bag and started to try to pick up the many pieces of shattered glass when the local butcher and his apprentice came out of their shop with broom and dustpan and … [Read more...]
Happiness
Happiness is: A sleeping child. A week without homework. Holidays with no routines. A girls' night out. A good book. A trashy mag and a block of chocolate. A family dinner. A world without housework (OK that one's a dream but it would make me so HAPPY). What makes you happy? I'm going to try to take part in the A to Z … [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...]
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...]
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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