the end was just the beginning
You know how kids are constantly complaining about sore tummies and sore feet and sore heads until it becomes white noise? Well ... I'm feeling really crap about my mothering skills right now because I ignored the little girl who cried wolf - AKA Sprog 2 - when she was genuinely, nastily ill. On the... Continue Reading →
Celebrities never fail to surprise you on Twitter - or in the presence of Oprah - here are some of their latest heart-starter announcements ... Fergie's having a baby! Fergie has revealed on Twitter that she's expecting a baby with Josh Duhamel. She posted a photoshopped pic of herself and Josh together as toddlers with the caption:... Continue Reading →
Jo Abi wrote a blog at iVillage last week about her over-scheduled child. I see her pain and I raise her ... Let me tell you about my over-scheduled kids: Monday 7.30am: band practice for Sprog 1 4.30pm gymnastics for Sprog 2/4.40pm trumpet lesson for Sprog 1 Tuesday 4.30pm-5.30pm swimming lessons for both Sprogs Wednesday... Continue Reading →
What's with all the over-50 celebs and the pregnancy/birth announcements recently? Here are two more exhausted granddads to add to the tally ... Hugh's a daddy again Hot on the heels of mature-age daddy revelations from Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin, Hugh Grant, 52, has announced the birth of a second child with a woman he once described as... Continue Reading →
I've been getting adventurous with Sprog 1's lunchboxes. As regular readers can probably guess, Sprog 2 isn't an adventurous lunchbox girl, she's been known to request plain Cruskits for morning tea and buttered bread for lunch. But Sprog 1 loves being my guinea pig, so here's what I made her last week. Husband went mad... Continue Reading →
OK, this house doesn't tick every single "dream" box - it's not walking distance to Merewether Baths, for example - but wow does it come close. When I told my mum the perfect house had gone on the market in New Lambton, she said "Curzon Road?" and I said "Yes!" so I think it might... Continue Reading →
Three Novocastrian friends popped over for an impromptu lunch last Saturday. Husband had taken the car to work, so I had to rely on the contents of my fridge. Fortunately the Farmer's Direct weekly order that I'd put on hold for six weeks while on "holiday" because I'm too cowardly to cancel it, had kicked... Continue Reading →
Valentine's Day might be a distant memory for Aussies, but it only drew to a close in Hollywood overnight. Here's a round-up of how the stars celebrated on social media ... "Happy Vday !!!!!" Jennifer Hudson wrote on her Facebook page. Ian Somerhalder was giving out free cuddle sessions in honor of Valentine's Day on Instagram.... Continue Reading →
It's the one-year anniversary of one of my all-time most popular blogs - You Don't Want To Be Famous: You don't want to be famous. You really don’t. Sure, it makes you rich (usually). But it also makes you paranoid, insecure and self-obsessed. And, if you’re really unlucky, dead. Like poor Whitney Houston, with ”recreated” photos of your corpse on the cover of... Continue Reading →
I got the best Valentine's Day present EVER yesterday. It wasn't chocolates or flowers or diamonds or a thorough seeing to ... it was way BETTER. A friend sent me a text message announcing: "Guess who has put their house up for sale in our street? The rotten family opposite you who have all those... Continue Reading →
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