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Raising Girls
Call me a soppy old bag, but Steve Biddulph’s interview on the ABC brought tears to my eyes. If you have something to keep your hands busy, this is really, really, really worth listening to: ABC Classic FM – Midday … Continue reading
Prevention is the best medicine
Once upon a time there lived a treasured and adorable Chocolate Point Siamese called Lord Claude Minkit. Claude had a great life: his people took him on holiday; he had a big garden full of interesting smells and great sunbathing … Continue reading
Proud to be a Bigot
Until today I’d never heard of Bernard Gayer. He has emerged from a swamp of anonymity as senate nominee for the Australian Party, heralding his presence by tweeting, ‘I wouldn’t let a gay person teach my child and I’m not … Continue reading
Stop. Think!
In the Australian news this morning: ‘Hundreds of Australian women are mutilating their genitals each year by having cosmetic surgery driven by pornography, gynaecologists say.’ (The Age.) In the British News this morning: ‘A nurse has been found guilty of … Continue reading
Cruel kindness
HuckFinn is our garden stray. He is nothing special. A medium sized, medium pretty grey-and-white boy (although I believe grey is in nowadays, so possibly he could raise his medium prettiness status to Hot now). He’s been walking these streets … Continue reading
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My ghostly prostate
There is a reason you will never hear me whinging about my prostate. I’m sure you can guess what that is. How I wish some politicians thought the same way. Richard Mourdock, Republican Senate Candidate: ‘I struggled with it [abortion] … Continue reading
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Do yourself a favour
I don’t make any claims to being the sharpest tool in the shed, but there’s enough battery juice in the old brain to make it work okay. All the same, there is stuff that I just don’t get; things that … Continue reading
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Loving the backlash
I dunno about you, but I’m loving the taste of the recent tide of feeling that I’ve felt rising in cyberspace. I’m talking about things like: Mad Men actress Christina Hendricks refusing to tolerate Herald Sun interviewer Kate Waterhouse’s insistence … Continue reading
Love me, love me not
I have just posted 73,000 words to a publishing house’s writing competition. I may as well have sealed myself in that super strong envelope for the yawning reader on the other end to pull apart, dissect and criticize inside and … Continue reading
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Conversations
#1 Mum: Wrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaagggggggggghhhhhhhhh! Who put a banana skin down the toilet???????!!!!!!! R: It was me. Sorry. I was eating a banana on the loo this morning and I dropped the skin in by accident. I didn’t want to take it … Continue reading