I was a late-comer to Facebook. It was only because almost all of my friends started posting their photos on the site rather than sending them through email that I begrudgingly signed on or in, as the case may be. Of course I’m as happy as a pig in mud now, having re-connected with friends…
Read More...Oy Vey and Oh My God! Just another Jewish, Catholic, Agnostic Family.
Religion is an interesting proposition in our house. I am – using a recently discovered and the most apt description of all time – a “submarine Catholic“, surfacing only at Christmas and Easter. My dad was an “armchair Catholic “, arguing that God could hear him just as clearly from our house as from any Church…
Read More...America on My Mind.
My ex-pat friend based in Los Angeles recently wrote a piece describing what she misses about Australian food and even though I’ve been back from Atlanta for 13 years, there are still things I miss about America; the things that always seem to come up in conversation with either my husband or other people and…
Read More...Ode to Facebook (and it rhymes).
Dear Mr Zuckerberg I can’t thank you enough for giving us Facebook and its frivolous fluff. From fabulous felines and marvellous memes to pugnacious puppies and talented teens. From all the lost animals and those that are saved to children angelic and badly behaved. Best friends and selfies and women with tatts to worldwide obsession…
Read More...I am not Nigella…
You know those quizzes for kids where they show them a row of pictures like three farm animals and a ladder and ask which is the odd one out? Well if you did an adult version consisting of various people preparing various foodstuffs, I would be the ladder. Every second blog seems to be about…
Read More...Age = Wisdom. Discuss.
wisdom: the ability or result of an ability to think and act utilizing knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense, and insight In a little under three months I’ll be 56 and whilst not exactly hurtling towards 60, 50 is becoming a decidedly more distant spot in the rear vision mirror! Along with ‘laugh lines’ and greying…
Read More...Mementos and Me
Let me be clear – I am NOT a hoarder! But I do keep a lot of ‘stuff’ for sentimental reasons which is probably what a lot of us do when we’re single and by “a lot of us”, I am generally talking about women. “I’m always going to keep this coaster/postcard/pressed flower.”, said no…
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