HouseHunting: Lane Cove longing

I've always quite fancied Lane Cove. It has an excellent farmers' market every Sunday. There's a Firefly bar. I went into labour with Sprog 1 at the local Malaysian restaurant, Kuali (great roti). There's also a public pool, and a pub. What's not to like? So I often slide my Domain app map its way... Continue Reading →

Low-fat buffalo wings with blue-cheese dressing

One of my favourite American dishes is buffalo wings. So evil. So good. Our housesitters left a bag of Aldi buffalo wings in our freezer at Christmas and - during the penury of January - we gobbled them. They were surprisingly good. It got me thinking that not only are chicken wings cheap they're very... Continue Reading →

Eeek! I have a wattle!

Not on my nature strip. On my neck. You remember wattles? Richard Fish made them famous on Ally McBeal, stroking them in a fetish-like way on the necks of older women such as Dyan Cannon and Janet Reno (see below). I was blissfully unaware of mine until I was sitting at the hairdresser's yesterday. Those... Continue Reading →

Trapped! Without food!

I've discovered an ingenious diet plan. It's called work. And I think it might. You see, when I was at home there was a fridge at my disposal 24 hours a day. The fridge was filled with all manner of luscious things that I couldn't resist. The fridge at work has a dried up avocado... Continue Reading →

HouseGoesHollywood: Rihanna in court, Kim’s gun mistake, desexing the Grammys

    Yet again, stars prove they're just like us - they made dumb mistakes too, with their boyfriends; on their Twitter accounts ... Rihanna stands by her man ... in court Rihanna accompanied Chris Brown to court yesterday for the hearing to determine whether he's compiled with the terms of his probation for assaulting her in... Continue Reading →

Smash!

I might have mentioned - once, twice, maybe 50 times - that my wardrobe is crammed with work clothes designed for someone in 2010 who was 5kg lighter than my current incarnation. Not quite the look I'm trying to project - even if I could squeeze into them - in my brave new digital workplace.... Continue Reading →

HouseGoesHollywood: Jennifer’s stalking confession, Beyonce’s bizarre demand, Friends reunion

Stars, they're just like us ... they have celebrity crushes, they hate unflattering photos, they want people to notice them, they vow never to grow their hair again ... Jennifer's stalking confession Jennifer Lawrence has confessed on the Conan show that she's been stalking her crush, former Full House star John Stamos. "He was at a... Continue Reading →

Playing dress-ups: the “Daddy” costume

My youngest has been obsessed with fashion from a very early age. At age two, she sat on my suede mocassins and refused to let me wear them because they looked like "Pop's shoes". This was pronounced with preternatural decisiveness. Conversely, if I wear something new - that gets her thumb's up - she always... Continue Reading →

HouseGoesHollywood: Gaga’s bizarre tour requests, Pink “not pretty enough”, who’s the sexy actress?

The more celebs change, the more they stay strange ... Lady Gaga likes pink pubic hair Celebuzz has got its hands on Lady Gaga's Monster Ball tour rider as part of the court documents from the lawsuit involving her former assistant, Jennifer O’Neill. And her demands are pretty out-there: her dressing room must be decorated in a... Continue Reading →

High school flashback

When I wrote a blog called "Who Were You In High School" I wasn't expecting it to strike such a chord with everyone from the former geeks to the former goddesses. One of the cool "Duran Duran girls" that I wrote about posted a comment saying: "It’s funny to suppose that other people thought we... Continue Reading →

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