Category: Health
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Finding Time To Breathe
In this crazily competitive yet compelling world we live in, finding the time to breathe and smell the roses can sometimes feel an uphill struggle. View image | gettyimages.com But in an exceptionally rare turn of events last weekend, the old man discovered that he actually did have some friends and deserted me for a…
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Cook’s Cheat Sheet 2: Quick Fish Curry For Middle Aged Fatties
If, like me, you binge on all the wrong foods over the weekend and then justify your gluttony by pretending to go healthy for the rest of the week, as penance, you might like this easy little fish dish I discovered in NC’s Women’s Weekly book, Fast Seafood (that I might have put in her…
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Let’s Talk About Women and Middle Aged Sex, Baby!
I know EXACTLY what you’re thinking right now… True Nature Productions – Sex After Forty – found on http://www.flickr.com LET’S NOT! Don’t worry; I’m not going to give you the sordid, hanging-from-the-chandelier-details of the sex the old man and I have on birthdays and Christmas. But it’s been a week of discussion about sex in…
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Ageing And My Plucking Eyesight
One of the most irritating and debilitating physical symptoms of the ageing process is the eyesight issue. Inne – Close up of Chris’ Glasses found on http://www.flickr.com As in, lack of it. Before I hit that wonderful pinnacle of 40, almost a decade ago now, (and at a time when I was still living under…
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Dogs: The Family Glue
Godard The Frangipani Eating Dog by Nicholas O’Donnell on http://www.flickr.com We celebrated our third child’s birthday a couple of days ago. The Princess Spoodle turned six – an event bigger than Australia Day in our household, and a double celebration because, in spite of the statistics, she hasn’t been got by a tick yet. We could…
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Day 5 Of Sobriety
It turns out that I’m not an alcoholic like the old man said; or only an amateur one, anyway. I reached day 5 of sobriety today. I had intended to go right through the next two weeks without a wine, but you know how it is… Stuff…work…life…and WHY THE FUCK WOULD I WHEN I OBVIOUSLY…
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Bad Parent Tip Number 1: Stop Helicoptering Your Children and Empower Them
Did I mention that the old man and I have been going to Bad Parents Group recently, or as we like to call it, ‘support for really shit parents’? Padlock by Rudolf Vlček found on http://www.flickr.com The sessions have been an eye-opener. It turns out that kids don’t just need love after all, and you…
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RoadTripping Dysfunctional Family-Style Part 2
Day 6 of the holiday, and due to the third world WIFI facilities of northern NSW (or it could be the communication lines offered by establishments at the level of the old man’s budget), I have been forced to resort to typing on the Ipad. Which, as it turns out, requires a level of coordination…
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Do All Relationships Become A Competition?
Day ‘ALREADY COUNTING DOWN’ of the holidays and I still haven’t killed the old man, but it’s interesting how much there is still to learn about your partner, even after thirty years. It turns out that the life sentence of twenty-one years of marriage, thus far, hadn’t fully revealed to me the full extent of…
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Middle Aged Style Secrets: 6 Awesome Ways To Cultivate Your Inner Bag Lady
I’m rarely in a position to brag about my middle-aged style choices but I really hit the bullseye on the middle-aged bag lady target this morning, when I had to race like a crazy woman into my son’s school to hand in the latest overdue form and payment for his excursion today. You see, I…
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I Know There Are Worst Things Than Parenting A Teenager With ADHD, But Sometimes It Doesn’t Fe
#2350944 / gettyimages.com http://www.tickld.com/x/father-finds-horrifying-letter-from-his-son-this-is-gold The story above was doing the rounds on social media last week. I get that it was meant to be funny and to most people it would have been. I did smile at the end. Bitterly. I read through the first part of the letter and a shiver ran through my…
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Healthy, Snacking Energy Balls For Tired, Middle-Aged Women
Okay, so I know they look like something the dog deposited in retribution for not getting a walk, but energy balls taste infinitely better than they look. I decided to go all Jamie Oliver yesterday and made some energy balls in an attempt to steer Kurt clear of energy drinks and plastic cereal and to…
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