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Teenage Sibling Love
English: Indian Naan bread and curry served in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I haven’t decided whether my teenagers are simply not interested in food, or just MY food . Nerd Child has been fussy about food since she was force-fed her first solid at the age of five months, where from deep within the…
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Life In Gotham City
It’s been a busy week in Gotham City! I’d almost forgotten the adrenaline rush of having to lock your doors at night in the city. Our new residence certainly seems to attract all sorts. Not only do we have noisy drunks and students weaving their way past our house late at night, but our gate…
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Middle-Aged Baby Belly
nice beer gut (Photo credit: HGruber) The old man has started his annual trip to ‘fitness’, citing his reason as the middle-aged baby belly which has suddenly developed from nowhere, yet protrudes a little too confidently above the over-tight waistband of his trousers. He blames me, of course, for this foreign mass that looks like a five…
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The Pain Of First Love
My boy may just be experiencing his ‘first love’, and if I’m honest, neither of us are really ready. If I’d known that sending him to a new school would expose his innocence to the wiles of flirtatious teenage girls so obviously on a mission to twist the hearts of innocent young men, I might…
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Shortening The Life Cycle of The Mosquito
Ochlerotatus notoscriptus, Tasmania, Australia (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I’m aware that my recent rants pertaining to rain and floods may have been deemed a little negative by some of my readers who are probably enjoying the drop in temperature, so I thought that I’d tell you in this post about one of the positives of the…
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Now That’s The Way To Get House Insurance!
English: Lifebuoy from insurance company TrygVesta (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Admittedly the damage wasn’t quite on the same scale as the devastation in Queensland, but the Sydney ‘showers’ last week, propelled by the cyclone up north, fully exposed the more shoddy bits of workmanship in our new rental house; the ones the property manager forgot to…
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Who Will Be Our Parents Now?
English: My parents. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) One of the main problems with our recent suburb move is that we’ve lost our ‘parents‘. I’m not talking about our biological parents, but those ‘more mature’ friends of ours who step in during our moments of crisis and sort them our for us. Moments that seem all too…
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My Personal Top Ten Genetic Mutations
A slight mutation in the matched nucleotides can lead to chromosomal aberrations and unintentional genetic rearrangement. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Last week, I inadvertently tuned into this super-intellectual series called Sex, Death and The Meaning of Life on tv. I admit that I was channel-hopping at the time, in search of something mindless (that wasn’t tennis),…
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New Year, New Body
A swimmer swimming (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Now that the boxes have been unpacked, the mail has been redirected and we’ve discovered our new favourite local eateries, I’m running out of excuses for not doing any exercise. January is traditionally the month where I make another feeble attempt to retrieve my wedding day body. New year,…
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‘Living’ The Circle of Life
We don’t really do the whole grandparent thing in our family. It is probably one of the leading causes of our family dysfunctionality, not having grandparents to tell our children how to behave, to advise us on where we’re going wrong, to show us how the whole ‘parenting’ lark should be done. The family hasn’t…
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It’s City Living, Innit…
English: North Sydney, Australia: CBD from the air. Taken in 2000 by Sonia Boddi-Kyle The image (taken in 2000) shows North Sydney’s high-rise commercial district from the centre facing south to Sydney CBD in the background. Sydney Opera House can be seen left of the Optus tower. Category:Images of Sydney (Photo credit: Wikipedia) So we’ve…
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Woman Flu And Spreading The Love
Flu Warning I know you’re all sick to death of hearing about my flu. But it is now day 12. Just sayin. So I’m wondering if it’s time for THE blood test? You see my body still feels like it has done the Tour de France, drug-free and with no training. Twice, at least. And…
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