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March 2013

Psycho Granny

Yesterday I was at Waitrose. For my non-UK readers, Waitrose is a posh supermarket that charges about 5% extra than anyone else because their stores look pretty. I can’t see any other difference really, their produce and products are much the same as all the other major supermarkets except for …

Are You A Shouter?

I am a shouty Mum. I really hate writing that because it’s one of the things I don’t like about myself. I like to think I’m quite self-aware, I’m pretty clear about my character flaws and shouting at my kids is one of them. Parenting does that to you, it …

Click Here If You Hate The Election Circus

As you all know I am Australian but don’t live in Australia. Therefore I haven’t voted in any election for years. I do however keep up with what’s going in Aussie politics and although we can’t vote, my family is still affected by what goes on in Australia because we …

Food Habits, Diets and Friends

I’ve blogged before about my obsession with certain foods and my complete lack of self control in this arena. In particular Nutella, sour cream and white chocolate. Because I’m so anal about weight gain and how many calories I eat, I obsess about wanting these foods all the time. I …

Born Again Exercise Junkie

Rob keeps telling people he’s convinced someone has possessed his wife: A non drinking running fanatic who has swapped Hello! magazine for marathon training books. I’m not exaggerating when I say I’ve spent 95% of my adult life avoiding exercise and bitching to anyone who’ll listen about what freaks gym …

The Lady Doctor

Today I had to go for my annual checkup at the gynaecologist. I thought about trying to rephrase that to make it sound less like someone was going to look up my patootie but there’s no sugar coating a trip to the gyno really, is there? Anyway while I was …