I have a lot of friends that back in the day we called 'new age'.  I also have a lot of friends that are control freaks.  Type A personalities on speed - you know the ones.  They're terrifying.And I even have a smattering of friends that are new age...

I am what is known in the business as a person with eclectic music tastes.  Actually, that's a lie - in the business I'd be known as embarrassing.  BUT, I do have eclectic music tastes.  And not necessarily trendy ones.  Especially in the olden...

There is something incredibly liberating don't you think in living in a country that is deliberately positioning itself as the dumbest in the world.  Anything we do from now on is going to get a gold star and a big fat 'well done for trying'. We just repealed the...

Lets face it.  A lot of people spend a lot of time bitching about Facebook.  Like, seriously a lot of time.  But it's a business.  And it's making Mark Zuckerberg very rich and very happy.  And we'll be part of the history books - we're living...

Believe. Dare. Roar.Those were the three words that I chose for 2014.  For those that want to know why, I refer you back to this post from January.And I don't mind admitting - it's not all gone to plan.  In fact, this picture I stole from a friend's Facebook...

You know how when you're a parent and your child doesn't do something, you just assume it's because of your awesome parenting?Or when they DO do something that every parent dreams of, you just assume it's your awesome parenting?Nup.Wrong. We've been parents for almost...

Rusty is a big guy.  He towers above you, but his bulk is not threatening. Indeed, it feels reassuring, almost like a hug.  He's a funny bugger, straight talking and gruff.  Red haired, white bearded. Young. He's a partner, a father to a daughter....

There are revelations and there are revelations.Mine is no Lewinsky tale.  No unwashed dresses or presidents here.  No references in a Beyonce song.But the guilt factor is HIGH. But it is time to come clean.At the beginning of last year, when my sister was...

I just walked the girls to school.  Which means what takes me 9 minutes to wander, takes them 35 minutes to gallop, hop, crawl, skip, run, spin, be carried, whinge a little and count cars, dogs, letterboxes and high five a garden gnome. We were over taken by this...

Forget the four horsemen.  Though they may yet come thundering in to deliver to us the most terrifying of last judgements (or pop up in a movie with Hugh Jackman - whatevs), there are already some clear signs that the end of the world is upon us.These ten things...

This is why people avoid having children.  Because they always ask the curly questions at breakfast time when you haven't got the time to formulate an appropriate response which ticks all the 'model positive non gender specific body imagery to my daughters'...