Posts Tagged ‘mothers’
Happy Father’s Day
I was going to do one of those self congratulatory posts for my first back from my unplanned blogging bludge break. This is what I had in mind. Gorgeous filtered photos (I got an iPhone while I was gone). There were going to be glamour shots of a [...]
Your domestic skills are wanting. So what?
OK, can you make a Victoria sponge? I can but big deal. What good is it to me unless I'm auditioning for Masterchef? Anyway if you can't don't worry. For you are one of a growing breed. A breed that is young mothers--young mothers without domestic [...]
There’s a list of ugly baby names
That Twitter is an amazing research device. Really we should just rid of all those people who do research for a job and just listen to Twitter. It's got its finger on the pulse of the world. (I just made that up but if anyone thinks it workable in [...]
Gotta get me some of that juice
Watching Toddlers and Tiaras is a bit like looking at a car crash. You know you should look away but there's something about tragedy that just sucks you in. Like Honey Boo Boo. God bless Honey Boo Boo, daughter of the world's most delusional [...]
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 [...]
Blue IV Z
So Beyonce and Jay-Z had their baby. It was a girl. In a middle finger to colour stereotyping they called it Blue. Blue Ivy. That's because some little upstart singer stole their first choice, Pink. The IV bit is from the couples love of the [...]
Breastfeeding–another form of slavery. Well that’s what a world leader said.
Really people overthink things and then say stupid stuff. It's the only explanation I can offer for French President, Nicholas Sarkozy who popped out with this series of little clangers last week. Addressing a group of young French mothers he [...]
Stop drinking wine right now
This is my Gen X Girl column from this week's Savvy Magazine that appears in the Townsville Bulletin. It’s no secret that I enjoy a drop of wine. OK, to be fair maybe that could be more than a mere drop, but I’m hardly Robinson Crusoe. Anyway [...]
We’re finishing her off in Switzerland
Years ago, my mother, suffering delusions of grandeur, used to tell me that she would send me to a Swiss finishing school. Let's put this in perspective. A girl from Central Queensland who didn't wear a dress until she was 16, whose favourite [...]
Noni Hazlehurst says the f word
I'm sure you've all heard the hype about the children's book that we all want to read to our children but never will--Go the Fuck to Sleep. Well now you can listen to it as Noni Hazlehurst's dulcet tones recite the words with meaning. It sort of [...]
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