I was thinking about healing. Healing isn’t some esoteric bullshit with candles and incense and inspirational quotes. It’s dirty shit. It’s sitting in your own emotional faeces and getting it all out. It’s about digging up the bodies you buried long ago and putting all the bones back together again and seeing where the bullet …
A reader emailed me asking how she could handle her current stay in hospital, as her roommate and their visitors are being arseholes. As a carrier of the frequent flyer hospital visitors card, due to the amount of cancer in my family, I understand the social norms required as both a visitor and a patient …
I have been thinking about parenting. My children are now adults. Well, as close to as possible, with the youngest only 6 months away from being 18. They\’re both exceptional. Funny, smart, they work hard, they\’re kind, they are strong and they have a strong sense of social justice. I am proud of my part …
When Victoria Lockwood married Charles Spencer, Viscount of Althrop, there was outrage about her dress. It wasn’t a big meringue as was popular at the time, instead, it was a medieval champagne-coloured gown, fashioned from French antique lace and trimmed with Russian sable by an unknown designer at the time called Tomasz Starzewski.With her undone …
In the morning, my husband makes the bed and opens the blinds. A small thing but it matters. Everything matters really. Those small movements and gestures throughout the day that can save a life. Making my bed once saved my life. Well, that is an overstatement, which I am prone to do, but when I …
Look in the mirror every day and say there are 7.6 billion of me out there. I am nothing special but I am also nothing to sneeze at. Sneeze into your elbow or on your closest enemy. Cure your insomnia by intricately planning the death of your enemy. Stay present when someone is dying, because …
Up early to claim the day. Breakfast at Plain Sailing in Elwood which was delicious. Drop off shirts to be ironed by the ironing man, who is a drag queen by night, (Edna Turnblad did it first) because I hate ironing and he irons them so quickly and perfectly. Head to Bunnings to buy planting …
These photographs for the 2018 Underwater Photographer of the Year are something else. These animals drawn onto dirty cars are much more enticing than the phrase \’wash me\’. Did you want to see something weird or confusing? Visit here and tell them I sent you. A 17th century stone cottage in a …
These dresses are by from a couture house in Adelaide (never thought I would combine the words couture and Adelaide in a sentence) called Paolo Sebastian. The head designer is Paul Vasileff. These are a collection that he did with Disney. Before you scoff at the word Disney, look at the beading work and the whimsy. …
I spent hours working out how to do this, because I promised you I would tell you what bloody cupcake you are! I hope you\’re happy now that I have another useless skill on my resume, courtesy of my own curiosity. I don\’t wanna hear if you don\’t like your cupcake. Do it again until …