Category: Health
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Do You Ever Stop Worrying About Your Children?
In the week that NC has achieved another milestone by passing her driving test, Kurt’s dangerous enthusiasm for life has escalated to a new hair-greying level. A text with ‘I’m all G’ doesn’t quite cut it at ten o’clock the morning after a sleepless work night spent waiting for the reassuring sound of your teenager’s…
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Alcohol: Time To Farewell A Dear, Old Friend?
I’m feeling old today; certainly older than I should feel at fifty, although my kids may argue with that. I look at the recent family photos we took at Easter and although I understand that we women of a certain age never like how we appear under the scrutiny of the lens, the cost of…
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Friendship, And How Twenty Minutes Can Be A Lifeline
This was going to be a post about how I’ve finally found my doctor, which is a big deal in my life because I’m a bit of a messed up, menopausal, hypochondriacally-challenged shell of the former woman I was most some of the time. So finding a great doctor almost feels like I’ve won the…
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Fear of Ageing and How I Wish I’d Started Walking Years Ago
I apologise sincerely for neglecting you this past week, although I did warn you that I was about the enter a period of life-sucking demands from the day job, and it’s only today that I’ve managed to raise my head above water again. So I’m finally squeezing out a post so you don’t forget about…
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When You Have To Deal With Shark Month, Stress And Work, All At The Same Time
Don’t you just hate it when your real job gets in the way of what you really want to do with your life? My day job has been woefully demanding of my time over the past few weeks, which has meant that not only has my writing/parenting/viewing of ‘I’m A Celebrity’ suffered, but my stress…
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Can I Body-Shame All Middle Aged Men Who Wear Speedos?
There is this bizarre conspiracy in Australia where middle-aged men, no matter what the size of their girth or tackle, believe they can wear Speedos in public and remain beyond reproach. Middle-aged women on the other hand, are demonised if they dare squeeze their middle-aged frames into a bikini. I might question the style and…
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30 Fascinating Things I Realised In 2015
Whenever I think I’ve finally reached rock bottom, I can always rely on my teenagers to up the ante. The word ‘meringue’ springs to mind whenever I wear a cream dress. I need stop at one whisky. All diets are lies. The upside to being ‘invisible’ is not giving a shit about what I look…
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Dining Out When You’re Trying To Eat Healthily
I’ve learned a lot about those sneaky hidden calories with my latest healthy-eating plan, and while I can manage to restrain myself – most of the time – on home territory, (apart from when it comes to homemade banana bread, which tests me on every level), it can be a very different story, when I eat…
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The 5 Ways I’m Restoring My Mental Health
Taking the ‘body’ theme a step further from my last post, I’ve been feeling a lot better in my body recently. And when I say ‘in my body’, what I’m really talking about, is in my head. This image came up under ‘positivity’… which is obviously why I used it…PHWOAR! But first of all, (and…
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How I Really Feel About My Fifty-Something Body
Do you think our mothers suffered from the same body image issues we do? I’m fairly certain that my mum was too busy surviving as a single, working mother in the sixties, to waste time worrying about the danger of her muffin top creeping out of the top of her jeans or if there was…
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Living Each Day And Surviving Every Parent’s Worst Nightmare
The most annoying thing about being the mother of a rebellious eighteen-year old is that you can’t always ensure they go out in their best underwear. That was one of the things that went through my mind on Thursday as we wove our way through city traffic to every parent’s worst nightmare… After the call…to say…
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Older, But Still No Wiser When It Comes To Drinking
What I’d seriously like to know is when exactly the middle-aged wisdom/acceptance thingy that my body can no longer drink alcohol is going to finally kick in. I’d also like to know if I can justifiably lay the full weight of blame for our behaviour firmly on the shoulders of our hosts yesterday, for contributing…
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