‘Lifestyle’ Archives
Yoga isn’t really that hard
Oops my secret is out. Celebrity personal trainer Matt Roberts believes that the rise and rise of yoga as exercise is because it's not very hard. Dearie me that's going to upset a lot of yoga types. Not me, because I've known that all along. Yoga [...]
Five recently cool things
This is my Gen X Girl column for this week's Savvy magazine published in The Townsville Bulletin. I’m starting to think I might be quite old. I actually remember when the internet was discovered. OK, it wasn’t discovered like Captain Cook [...]
Keep your secrets in your bra
OK, I'm going to own up here. I have been known to stash a tissue down my bra. Not to make my boobs look bigger mind, just more the convenience of having somewhere to stash a snotty tissue if I've got a cold. Classy! I may or may not also stash [...]
Slap your way to bigger boobs
The idea of a boob job scares me in a big way. I worry that I wouldn't be able to lay on my stomach and would have to excavate two holes so I could stretch out at the beach. I worry that I'd get that big canyon in between them. I have visions of [...]
Babies are the new black
This is my from my weekly Gen X Girl column in the Townsville Bulletin's Savvy magazine. Have you noticed that children, especially babies, are the new black? They’re everywhere. Once upon a time celebrities used to accessorise their outfits [...]
You think you look young but apparently you look dumb
Last Sunday morning I was sitting around with my husband and daughter drinking Bloody Marys at 9am. We were a bit under the weather from the night before, decided to do a bit of family bonding--good time had by all. I was relating the story to a [...]
This is why your grandma smoked
Have a look at these vintage ads from the 50s when a good old smoke was all the rage. Is it any wonder our hospitals are full of lung cancer stricken patients. Wouldn't happen these days of course. All that talk of fags and blowing in her [...]
Minding my own business
I've got me a new current passion--it's Gretchen Rubin's The Happiness Project which you can read by clicking on the link. Anyway I'm browsing away and aspiring to be her when I came across this little blog entry titled 7 tips for minding my own [...]
Celebrity spruiking
This week's Gen X Girl column from Savvy Magazine in the Townsville Bulletin. Does anyone actually believe anything that celebrities say? Are you going to buy Nespresso coffee just because George Clooney says so? Or just because Hugh Jackman [...]
The truth about pregnancy by Carla Sarkozy
God bless you Carla Sarkozy--former supermodel and present first lady of France. You are not going to be the poster child for the elderly primagravida (true medical term) mother as you near the end of your pregnancy. No you can't wait for it all to [...]
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