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The Middle-Aged Thigh Gap
I’ve had a few sleepless nights worrying about my thigh gap recently. For those of you who’ve spent the last few months in a coma, the new way to improve your stick insect credentials these days is to have a distinct gap between your thighs, like this: Which is about as fattist as the fashion…
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The California Killings and Two Sides To Every Story
two sides to every story (Photo credit: Norma Desmond) Just when you think there might be a measure of sympathy out there for parents who struggle day to day with ‘different’ kids, another ‘crazy’ in the US goes out on a killing spree, citing women as his problem. And now everyone thinks that all kids…
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Tips To Discourage The Dreaded Teen Party
Teen party (Photo credit: veleirosdosul) So, the old man and I were supposed to be going on a mini-break this weekend, staying at friends over-night. We were leaving NC in charge of ‘he who will not obey’. Kurt is nearly seventeen. Sounds straightforward, doesn’t it? ‘Pissing my pants’ is not a strong enough description for…
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There’s More To Following Your Dream Than Achieving Success…
Once a year I allow myself to cavort around Walsh Bay in dark sun glasses, high heels and Review cardie, and I try to look all luvvy and creative-like at the Sydney Writers Festival. Swanky coffee shop at the Writers Festival, darling! This is a vital part of ‘following my dream.’ I think I look…
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If We Could Control Our Destiny, I Wouldn’t Have Had Such A Bad Week
It has been a difficult week and it’s still only Wednesday. Suicide prevention message on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Kurt survived his first set of exams but I feel as though I have been put through a shredder and lived the anxiety HE should have been experiencing –…
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Helping Your ADHD Child Cram For Exams
English: Albert Einstein Français : Portrait d’Albert Einstein (Photo credit: Wikipedia) So, Kurt sat his first real exam today. As in the FIRST exam he has considered important. He has sat the Naplan tests in the past, but he said they didn’t count. He has a point. It was certainly the first English exam he’d…
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The Game Of Domestic Survival Of The Fittest
Do you ever think that your house would turn into an apocalypse if you went away for more than a few days? Perhaps I give myself too much credit. But that idea struck me over the weekend after I’d shouted downstairs to the old man to cut one of Kurt’s tablets in half and Kurt…
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‘Experimentation’ Is A Big Part Of Being A Teenager
Found on fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net I am obviously the very LAST person in Australia to watch Puberty Blues. For those of you who haven’t seen this wonderful Australian television series, Puberty Blues is set in the seventies, near Sydney’s Cronulla beach, and depicts the journey through puberty and the coming of age of two close friends, Sue…
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The School Friend Who Morphed Into The Swan
Swan song (Photo credit: antonychammond) Have you ever caught up with an old friend from school? Someone you haven’t seen for about 30 years? That happened to me recently. I first caught up with this old school friend a few weeks ago, and I admit that I had been completely unprepared for how jaw-droppingly gorgeous she…
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Sadly, The Bush Is Not Back
Bikinikine by Hagerstenguy at http://www.flickr.com Ladies, It is with much personal sadness that I must report that… THE BUSH IS NOT BACK! I’m as upset as you are. Don’t you hate the way the magazines play with us like that? One day it’s in, the next day it’s not… Quite a few of the…
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Can Middle Aged Women Really Wear Ankle Boots?
teal dress with ankle boots and cardigans+cat eye sunglasses and louis vuitton speedy-los angeles (Photo credit: …love Maegan) Ankle boots are back and it looks as though they’re here to stay. Sometimes I wonder what the fashionistas and designers are thinking. Do they ever consider how middle-aged women will look in their designs or are…
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