Posts Tagged ‘food’
Ten lessons from a tropical island
I'm keeping my tropical island holiday theme going today as I learned some valuable lessons that I thought you might like to know. Also now that I am back at work I just want to remind myself that not so long I was on a tropical island. So here [...]
That’s bananas
Apparently bananas can do all manner of things that some of us many never have known. Sadly for me I will never be able to test these things out since a single banana is worth the economy of a small Pacific island. God I miss [...]
Death row prisoner wrecks the whole last meal tradition
A prisoner on death row getting his requested last meal is just one of those things. Not anymore apparently as Texan Laurence Brewer's request was just too much for a US Senator prompting a cranky letter and having a kibosh put on the whole last [...]
What BHP has to say about office manners
BHP has issued a memo to its Brisbane staff about office etiquette. Lucky for me I don't work at their office. I'm forever draping my coat over the back of my chair and gosh I wouldn't know where I'd be without my post it notes to tell me what to do [...]
One minute peanut butter dessert cake
A while back I did a bit of community service and brought you the five-minute chocolate cake but you know, sometimes chocolate isn't what you're after at all and those extra four minutes just seem just too long. So perhaps this good old peanut [...]
Get that on your fork
Those French are all about telling us how to get skinny. There's the French Women Don't Get Fat Diet (only eat small portions, feel superior and walk a lot), Kate Middleton's preferred Dukan Diet (it must work, the girl is melting away before our [...]
Liar, liar, liarexic
Are you a liarexic? What, you’ve never heard of liarexia? It’s a condition, experienced mostly by women whereby they lie about their food intake? Hmm, imagine that—women with food issues. Anyway to put it succinctly it’s a condition [...]
Big fat cake mistake
Apparently the cake was to read. Best wishes Suzanne underneath that We will miss you. Ooops. Comprehension is an often under-rated reading skill.
Warnie the trophy wife
This is from my weekly column that appears in the Townsville Bulletin's Savvy Magazine. I love makeovers. Love TV makeover shows more for that matter. Property, people, lifestyles—I'm all over them. Just so long that some that was previously in [...]
This ad got pulled in the US. Is it really that offensive?
The National Eating Disorder people in the US have had this Yoplait ad pulled from the air. Gosh it's radical. It features a woman going through the consequences of deciding whether or not to eat some raspberry cheesecake. Really out there isn't [...]
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