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The Annual Torture Of Buying Swimwear When You’re Middle-Aged
We’re approaching summer here in Sydney and my annual fear of publicly outing the middle-aged, cuddly bod, to a beach full of unsuspecting and judgmental sunbathers already has me reeling with fear. I moved to Australia for the temperate climate but as much as I love the water, the idea of posing in swimmers and…
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One Small Step For Mum And It’s A Wrap
I’m a complete stalker when it comes to food porn, and new, quick and easy recipes. View image | gettyimages.com If I had the right guinea pigs in my household, who did what they were told, I fervently believe I could have been a great cook, but unfortunately the kids didn’t inherit my ‘foodie’ gene…
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Middle-Age Beauty Tips And Never Saying Never
I’ve never been interested in make up, until now. But my skin has recently changed with the onset of middle age, which is a bummer because I used to have a clear white English-rose complexion. Skin a girl could rely on. I stumbled upon a blog post the other day where the writer named three…
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The Fabulousness Of Clothes Shopping When You Don’t Actually Need Anything
Found on seedheritage.com The old man gave up on buying me a proper birthday present a long time ago. He will tell you it’s because I’m fussy and difficult (and probably, a complete bitch), but basically it’s because he has no fucking idea (see previous post), and I would end up disappointed that he had…
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What I’ve Learned From My Forties
When I was in my early thirties and stuck in the quicksand of raising young children, one of the things that got me through was clinging to the belief that surely, life HAD TO begin in my forties. ID 2102975 © Dimitry Romanchuck | Dreamstime.com Bit that idea turned out to be an old wives…
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Don’t Let Your Children Define You
I reach the other other end of another decade next week, which has given me pause for reflection. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/566419105 I entered this last decade with a new life in Australia, but ‘life’ as such is rarely defined by the country you inhabit, rather the people you inhabit it with. Inevitably, my most recent decade has…
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Middle Age And The Importance Of Training Your Brain
View image | gettyimages.com Luckily for me, whisky does help prevent dementia, because that particularly evil symptom of middle age worries me more and more. Middle-aged women who suffer from serious anxiety should never watch movies like Still Alice. I’ve watched it twice. For those who haven’t seen the movie, it stars Julianne Moore as…
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Breathing Freely Again When The Anxiety Lifts
I didn’t need my troubled son Kurt to go away to see just how much his needs have defined my personality over the last few years. But even I have to admit that I’m surprised how quickly I’ve regained control of my emotions away from the glare of his aura. Found on pinterest.com As you…
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Fuck! I’m Nearly Fifty
So I’ve had nearly fifty years to organise my half-century mammoth birthday party to end all birthday parties. FreeImages.com/Yaziki Ekrem And I have thought about it a lot in the past. But now I’m actually here, I’m not sure I can be bothered. What happened to me? I used to pride myself on being an…
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Anxiety and Never Being Able To Truly Leave The School Playground
I talked about the joy of anonymity in a post last week. Anonymity is a joyous experience if you seek it, but it’s not much fun when that self-imposed isolation is provoked by anxiety and fear. View image | gettyimages.com Kitty Flanagan, a middle-aged female Australian comedian, recently admitted in an article in the SMH…
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Happiness In Middle Age, Escapism and Searching For The Simple Life
Old Surfer Dude by Gary Wilson, found on Flickr.com Kurt has been away on his sabbatical for five days now and we have magnanimously told him that if he does decide that the simple life away from the city suits him better, we won’t stand in his way if he decides to stay longer. It…
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The Secrets Of Trade Off Dieting
There are certain topics that even I won’t discuss on this blog, and one of them is ‘poo’. An article was doing the rounds on Facebook the other day that contained images of different poo textures and what they symbolise in terms of your health and I found it absolutely no problem at all to…
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