Posts Tagged ‘Australia’
I’m off the drink again. Wrong month. Again.
Gosh it seems like only yesterday that I gave up drinking in what I like to call Dry August. That was in 2010. Quite a long time ago. I stole the term Dry August from the Dry July campaign that ran the month before. I'm a little slow at catching on [...]
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 [...]
There’s an art to being a successful swearer
I'm a swearer. A good one. Not necessarily something I'm proud of but then again when you see how badly some people do it, well I guess it's not a skill to be sneezed at. For instance take our former PM Kevin Rudd and his latest swearing video. [...]
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, [...]
A champion tantrum
Have you ever been so cranky that you just wanted to throw shit? Or smash stuff? Or just generally behave like an out of control temper tantrum throwing two year old? Well that's how I reckon Marcos Baghdatis was feeling right after he was beaten [...]
Why playing decent tennis does not make you a good bloke
"He's ok now," my husband announced. "Oh, because he wins a couple of tennis games you like him now?" I replied to the fair weather fan. The he that my husband was referring to is Bernard Tomic. His character analysis announced just before [...]
Mum guilt–did you send your kid to school with this lunchbox?
The kids are back at school today (well they are if they live in Queensland). So mums all over the place have put together healthy and nutritious lunchboxes for their kids to impress the the teachers and get a great shot at oneupmanship over the [...]
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. [...]
Why did the koala cross the road?
Look at this series of photos of a very cute koala who paid us a visit over the holidays.
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