How to crack your nuts
In this short post I'm going to tell you how to crack your nuts. Not in a rude way in a practical way. I was very pleased with myself when I thought of it. Take one garlic crusher and place your nut in it. Press lightly...
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Crying on my yoga mat
I’m sitting crossed legged in sukhasana and all of a sudden I realise I’m about to start crying on my yoga mat. I move into child’s pose and the sniffles come. I move back into down faced dog and the kind of muffled gulps of what...
Getting to the bottom of Australian Women’s Weekly
Bosoms and bottom cheeks. That’s the flip side of the Australian Women’s Weekly (AWW) this month. The elegant and gracious Princess Mary and her girls on the front cover (with a creepy Prince Fred hand on her shoulder but no Prince Fred) and butt cheeks...
Kid’s party panic
Organising, a Christmas party for 200 or a town party for 1000, no problem . Have me organise my own child's fifth birthday party for 12 and I start to sweat. I'm not kidding. The Rubinator turned five recently and a Batman party was high on his agenda for a perfect...
Losing my voice
I lost my voice for two years. Not the words but my voice. Come to think of it when I started blogging I wasn't really sure what my voice was at all. I just thought had to start writing, I had to start somewhere and the rest would...
NaBloPoMo is not a swear word
NaBloPoMo is not a swear word. NaBloPoMo is November's National Blog Posting Month. So for the whole month of November the aim is to write a blog post a day. So far I’m up to two, doing okay. I did miss Saturday and Sunday but...
Dear Max, please go the **#@ to sleep
Dear Adam Mansbach, when you wrote THAT book, Go the **#@ to sleep, politely dual-released as, Seriously just go to sleep, I read it and I laughed. I try not to make profanities a part of my everyday vocab, but I laughed the laugh of a...
Finding our tribe
Moving somewhere new can be hard work but finally, thankfully, it’s starting to feel like we have found our tribe (thanks Seth Godin) and in the village where we live the connections are getting stronger. Six months ago we moved from the close community of a...
My head in a book – In my skin, a memoir – a review
A book written by Kate Holden. I started reading it and then I wanted to put it down almost immediately. And I did. [caption id="attachment_1051" align="alignleft" width="225"] Kate Holden's maiden book[/caption] Kate Holden’s In my skin a memoir is her first book. Published in 2005 it’s not a...
Be scared and do it anyway
Trying new things can be scary but the feeling you get when you come out the other side is amazing and it's why I highly recommend to be scared and do it anyway. Last weekend, at the Mudgee Readers Festival in New South Wales, I had the...