For richer for poorer, till death do us part

Like most people I suspect, the two things that I fear the most are the loss of my children and my husband – losing either would turn my world upside down. The very idea of some terrible happening to my family is something that doesn’t even bear thinking about. Yet I do. Probably far more than is considered rational or even remotely healthy.

When BIG really isn’t beautiful

Some people might have thought that my previous post about parents murdering their kids was a little extreme. And then a story popped up on the news that backed up everything I had said.

Damn that fairy

Everyone knows that asking a mother what sort of diet their child has is paramount to calling them hopeless, useless and completely irresponsible….

Shop till you fly

Recently I was lucky enough to find myself ambling around Duty Free, passing time before boarding and trying to pump some extra blood around my body in the hope of preventing a bout of DVT. Having checked in early, my husband informed me that this time we were NOT to be the last people to board…..

Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down

All these years I have been living under the assumption that it pays to be healthy, to watch my weight and try and refrain from eating my weight in Pringles every night. Apparently this is not the case. Apparently it pays to be obese. Literally…..

What IS on the end of your fork?

Of course I have been aware of the food scare crisis going on in China over recent weeks, but I admit it was only last week that I really sat up and really took notice…..

Thanks!

These are by way of a thank you, to all those who have visited my website and helped me to reach my first 10,000 hits in the 4 months since I started writing this blog.

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Wake up Calls and Warfarin

Nothing can remind you how precious life is more than a trip to a crowded emergency room in the middle of the night – a wake up call that I was forced to face when driving my pain ridden husband to hospital a couple of months ago. It was a wake up call that made me sick to my stomach and left me hyperventilating with fear….
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Eat to Save Your Life

A couple of nights ago Jamie Oliver’s programme ‘Eat to save your life’ was aired on Australian TV. In a country where the junk food restaurants practically out number the people, a programme like this couldn’t have come a moment to soon. Australia is a nation it seems that really does need to have the blindingly obvious message drummed home to the masses…. (click header to read the rest)

Patience is a necessary virtue

They say that the ‘WA’ in Western Australia stands for Wait Awhile. And this I have to say is most defiantly true. Life simply goes at a much slower pace here, and whether you are sitting at the traffic lights (which incidentally have to be the slowest I have ever sat at) waiting for a coffee or the checkout at Coles, there simply seems to be no urgency to get stuff done in anything that resembles a hurry.