‘Cultural Pursuits’ Archives
Oui, oui madame
Okay, my French could best be described as sucky. As I've mentioned before I'm really bad at it, but that doesn't stop me thinking that I can speak French when in France to real French people who have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about. It [...]
A new movement–toilet yoga
Yoga is good for all things. Flexibility, strength, inner peace and now, adding to its already impressive resume, the ability to help you go to the toilet in a zen like manner. The Toilet Yoga Movement (seriously I did not make that up), has [...]
And the winner is…
Such a day of competition today. February 27 will go down in history as the day of the great showdown. Who will it be? Now the intro to this post is deliberately vague, as I wanted to allude (I'm trying to be clever) to the competition of the [...]
Elephants: the new cane toads
Years ago, some genius science people decided it would be a great idea to bring in cane toads to eat the bug that was eating the sugar cane. That worked out well didn't it? Anyway imagine my surprise when this little gem popped up on my trivia [...]
Since when did eating out become so darn hard?
I don't know if it's an old person thing, but I'm getting really jacked off when I eat out lately. From being totally ignored when you stand at the please wait to be seated sign to being ignored when you are actually lucky enough to score a seat, [...]
The lovechild of ugly shoes
Have you ever wondered what would happen if an ugg boot has a threesome with Croc and those trendy barefoot sneakers ever got together? No? Really? Well if you ever did, here is the result. The most hideous shoe that ever [...]
Oh school days
This image (click on it to increase size) came to me in one of those then and now emails that are doing the rounds. Interesting isn't it. And uncomfortable close to the truth. When did we take away our children's responsibilities and blame [...]
What to wear to Ascot races
Dressing for the races is big business. And more and more of us are doing it, but apparently less and less of us are getting it right. And those bastions of all things that are right and proper--the big cheeses who make the rules at Royal [...]
A bit more respect for sharks, please
This is from my Gen X Girl column that appears weekly in the Townsville Bulletin's Savvy magazine. Sharks are misjudged. And it’s all the fault of the media and its loose use of terms such as shark attack. And Hollywood is to blame as well. [...]
Happy birthday Kate and GXJ
I'm a little late posting today. All tired from singing a karaoke duet of True Colours with my girl crush Princess Kate. It's her 30th birthday today. She had an eighties themed karaoke bash. I wore a little blue slashed to the belly button jumpsuit [...]
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