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When The Education Of Your Kids Finally Pays Off
sKurt and NC move out of the family home in a few months time, when the old man and I move back up north, about an hour away, to an area they refer to as the hinterland of Sydney. It’s not quite the Outback, but it’s far enough away from them to help us get some…
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Health Anxiety And The Ability To Identify When There IS Something Actually Wrong
Even though I have a massive health anxiety issue and spend most of my day counting the different ways I will contract cancer on Dr. Google, I rarely go to the doctor. The good news about having a potentially broken finger means that I can give the old man the finger whenever he asks me…
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When You’re Still Going To The Zoo At Fifty!
Sydney holds its Vivid Festival at this time of the year – a two-week extravaganza where the city is lit up with, well…lights, and luckily for us, a friend of mine organised tickets for us to celebrate this year’s celebrations at Taronga Zoo. Crikey! Crocs!I I like zoos and the old man could hardly contain…
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How The F*ck Am I A Size 16?
I know that we all have inherent body image issues to some degree, not aided by the pressure put on women, in particular, to squeeze into Barbie- sized clothes deemed acceptable by society due to the influence of the media – even though the average size in Australia is now a size 16. But I…
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Middle-Aged Memory Loss: When You Need A Checklist Just To Leave The House
So apparently, the old man also experiences the whole dementia thing, which I had hoped was short-term in my case and attributed to menopause rather than a permanent decline. Getting out of the house together can be a strain these days and the organization we require to remember everything we need has become an embarrassment. We…
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Is It Middle-Aged Women That Are Invisible, Or Just Women In General?
There have been a couple of incidences lately that have got my tits in a twist about how invisible women become after the age of fifty – unless we go around waving a banner that says ‘Look at me, I’m here.’ Is It Middle-Aged Women That Are Invisible, Or Just Women In General? Sadly, it…
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Manchester, I Am Angry
I understand that the conventional response to these vile acts of terrorism is not to admit defeat; to ‘never surrender,’ in the words of Churchill. And by golly, if anyone can stand proudly in the face of such adversity, it is the British. I am also aware after years of therapy that anger is a…
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How To Show Restraint At The Inclusive Hotel Buffet Breakfast
I’d never noticed before that skinny women only eat fruit at the hotel buffet breakfast, but since NC kindly (?) gave me my FitBit for Mothers Day, I’ve become much more conscious of the number of calories going into my body versus calories being burned. Due to medical reasons pertaining to my mental health, I…
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Couples Holidays For The Middle-Aged – When Sometimes It’s Easier To Stay At Home
The problem with going away when you finally reach that longed-for stage of almost empty-nesting is that anxiety tends to rear its ugly head at about the same time in your life, and it throws up all sorts of other issues. So although we don’t have to worry about remembering a long list of toddler…
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Motherhood, Togetherness, Warts and All
I’m not proud of the fact that I was so hung-over on Mothers Day that I was on diet soda for my celebratory lunch with my kids. I could blame the friends we had lunch with the day before – a lunch that turned into dinner – although, in our defense, the whole idea of lunch…
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Food Goals When You Work From Home
One of the main benefits to working from home, aside from the greater job security than that currently offered by the FBI, is the 24hr on-site cafeteria. I have instigated Google’s food policy in our house. They don’t allow their employees to be further than 200 feet from food at any time – a strategy…
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