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November 2013

Fancy Pants

This probably won’t interest you if you are a male reader. Unless you want to read about menstruation .. but if that’s what floats your boat then you’re in the right place. Ok, so periods. We all get them, it’s part of human female function and yadda yadda yadda. As …

Foot Fetish

Because I have no saturday night social life and my children were all busy staring at the digger we currently have sitting in our back garden, I decided to be brave and scroll through my Instagram photo gallery. Last week marked the four month anniversary of our arrival in Sydney …

An Open Letter of Apology

I have a really heartfelt apology to make. In recent years I have criticised and made unfair judgment about a certain group of people within our community, both here and overseas. I’ve been quite vocal in publicly insisting that this group, predominantly women, were wrong in their beliefs and actions …

Saturday Night Antics

Last Saturday night I trekked (read: we pre-booked parking) out to Homebush to do the Electric Run. Summed up, it’s a 5km run around the outside of ANZ stadium to really loud music that belongs to a generation not of my own, with lots of lights and neon and lots …

Women Multi-task Better. The End.

Each morning Rob and I have the same disagreement. I am going to re-phrase that. Each morning I get the shits at Rob because I can manage at least a couple of dozen tasks in the time it takes him to do one. It really is like groundhog day. Each …

Parent Homework

My six-year-old son has a school assignment. I think that actually means that I have an assignment, really. Doesn’t it? It’s a class book where all the kids have to do a double page of who they are and a bit about their short lives in two giant A3 pages. Lots …

Runners Need

I haven’t written a blog about running in a while. I worry that people will get sick of hearing me bleat on about it. ‘Mummy-blogger-turned-annoying-runner’ isn’t exactly the type of blogger I want to be known as (even though I probably am one). There is a Mum at Luca’s school …