It's all sex, drugs and rock n roll today ... Pink's sexy new video Pink makes out with hubby Carey Hart in her raunchy new video clip for Just Give Me A Reason. Included are scenes of the pair lying together on a floating bed and kissing passionately in the water. At one point during... Continue Reading →
My gambling addiction
As I sit gazing at Google Analytics five, 10, 50 times a day, it's occurred to me that I have an addiction. It's not to poker machines or roulette wheels (though I was rather partial to the toy one I got for Christmas as a kid ... ah, the things they thought were appropriate in... Continue Reading →
HouseGoesHollywood: Kim’s pregnancy cravings, celebrity diet secrets, Michael Jackson’s son gets TV gig
Something old, something new, something bizarre ... Chips off the Jackson block It seems at least two of Michael Jackson's kids have inherited a taste for showbiz. Prince Jackson, 16, has been appointmented as a special correspondent for Entertainment Tonight. "I'm looking to become well-rounded as a producer, director, screenwriter and actor,' he explained. Prince's first... Continue Reading →
The girl who cried wolf
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 →
HouseGoesHollywood: Fergie’s having a baby, Gaga’s got a wheelchair, Beyonce’s little genius
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 →
Mothering or smothering?
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 →
HouseGoesHollywood: Hugh’s a daddy again, Blue Ivy revealed, Brendan’s a deadbeat dad
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 →
Lunchbox munches: Cheese and olive scrolls + Anzac bikkies
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 →
HouseHunting: My Newcastle dream home
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 →
Lunch with friends: pumpkin tarts + rockmelon granita
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 →