the end was just the beginning
Lindsay goes to party - host robbed Groundhog Day! Lindsay Lohan has been questioned by the police about an alleged burglary. The actress and her assistant had a sleepover at a friend's Hollywood Hills house and - surprise! - the next morning, the owner discovered some of their jewellery had gone missing. Says TMZ: "The incident occurred Sunday night at... Continue Reading →
I had lunch with a fellow ex-weekly mag slag yesterday. We exchanged pleasantries about our families for a polite five minutes. The rest of the time was spent dissecting how much Woman's Day really paid for those Lisa McCune cheating pics, whether readers actually cared about Kourtney Kardashian's baby, why certain blundering fools still have... Continue Reading →
Wading through the murk so you don't have to ... RiRi's interview finally airs and it's SCARY While it was billed as "exclusive", much of the excitement surrounding Rihanna's interview with Oprah Winfrey was blown by constant leaks of all the juicy bits. Still, the gossip columns have found found stuff to dissect after the... Continue Reading →
Everywhere I turn, women are writing advice letters to their teenage daughters. It's not a new idea, but one that's been given a vigorous revival of late. Angela Mollard kicked off the latest round with a lovely one in Sunday magazine a few weeks ago, encouraging her daughter to be loyal, laugh and respect her... Continue Reading →
Wading through the murk so you don't have to ... The Mag I Bought This Week Award goes to ... The weekly magazines are scrabbling over Jennifer Aniston's engagement like my chooks with a corn cob - everyone wants a piece. Sadly - like that poor Aussie swimmer Emily Seebohm, who sobbed because she won silver instead... Continue Reading →
Going away for the weekend is all very nice until Monday morning. You wake up and the kids' school uniforms aren't washed, there's no bread to make sandwiches for their lunch, the sheets and towels from the trip have been tossed in the laundry along with an inexplicably enormous bag of dirty underwear, you've run... Continue Reading →
The Household are in Katoomba for the weekend. It's effing cold. So effing cold that I feel like calling it the four-letter word that it is rather than the euphemism. But this is a family blog post, so I'll restrain myself. It's so effing cold that I wore my vintage Esprit puffer jacket last night... Continue Reading →
Just in case you missed it, I wrote a blog about chilli con carne - mmmmmmmm - over at Village Voices last week (http://blogs.kidspot.com.au/villagevoices/chilli-con-carne-3-ways/). I'm entering the main recipe in Rantings of An Amateur Chef's Chili Cook-off. The Ranting Chef writes a blog filled with weird and wonderful recipes like this one, called Red, White... Continue Reading →
Wading through the murk so you don't have to ... Matt likes less, Gavin wants more Matthew McConaughey didn't want his wife to wear make-up on her wedding day ... Gwen Stefani's bloke wants her to wear make-up all the time ... who'd you rather have as a husband? Hmmm ... Camila McConaughey might be the... Continue Reading →
The Very Bad Book - by Andy Griffiths - is a very good book in Sprog 1's eyes. She thinks all the revolting chapters, like The Dog That Fell Apart, Invasion of the Blood-Sucking Grannies and The Adventures of the Dog Poo Family are totally hilarious. Her favourite scene in Lord Of The Rings is... Continue Reading →
