Talking Frankly is about everything from housework to human rights. It is a mixture of observation, commentary and opinions.
It also contains a lot of profanity along with the humanity. And please don’t steal my work. Somebody invariably dobs you in and it gets messy.
Enjoy!
Stop clicking Bono
You know the joke where Bono stands on stage and clicks his fingers. One. Two. Three. Four. And then he says sonorously into the microphone. Every time I click my fingers a child dies. Five. Six. Seven. And from the...
Talking about the weather is not conversation
Have you noticed that everybody is talking about the weather because its hot. Like really hot. And over in England they are talking about the weather because its cold. Like really cold. And over in America we talked about the weather because it...
I’m with Mr Monkton – Let us be lovely
Sometimes, no matter how you look at the world - via print, online or just out the bus window, there is evidence that the world is not operating to the best of its capacity.Basically, it could be a whole lot nicer if people focussed on being lovely. Like a lot.I don't...
Reaching for the stars, falling off the ladder
My daughter slipped off a ladder on Sunday and hit the ground with the kind of sickening thud and squelch that fills your stomach with bile, increases your heart rate and has your mind go into meltdown. Her mouth was gushing so much blood that we initially...
Click Clack Frenzy and Madness (Ahem)
Just a brief observation - the funny thing about tonight's Click Frenzy is not that the site failed - they wont be the first group that were surprised by the size of their success - but that everybody moved in ten minutes from "HIP HIP HURRAH CLICK FRENZY GONNA GET ME...
Accidents happen
About ten years ago in Canberra, my baby brother was riding his motorcycle to work in the afternoon, when a car failed to give way properly and cleaned him up. It was a horrible accident leaving him with significant injuries and a stint in intensive care...
Michelle Bridges aint got nothin’ on my routine!
You can keep your morning boot camps, your Fitness First memberships, your morning walks with the dog - I am absolutely convinced that if I paid people to take my girls shopping it would become the world's most challenging fitness regime.Take yesterday's trip to...
I’d love to make violence extinct
I really really really wish there was no violence.I know this is not a realistic approach to the real world but that’s the great thing about wishing for a better world. Violence wouldn’t be an option and so people would have to find an alternate way to express rage,...
The joys of old friends and vegemite
There is a saying that friends come into your lifetime for a reason, a season or a lifetime and I think it is very true. Each are important and it is possible to miss a friendship for much longer than it lasted. However, there is something to be said for...
Social climbing is not a form of exercise
In my utopian world, there would be no social climbing. Not even in really expensive shoes.It would be safe to assume that social climbers have a latin based horticultural name that encompasses ‘an overall decorativeness cloaking viciously thorned, tenacious climbing...
Comment rage is a real thing
I had a bit of hiatus from some of the sites, blogs, pages and so on that I regularly follow over the weekend. And not because any of them said or did anything nor was I feeling exhausted from being constantly connected to information - but rather I had 'comment...
My Australia is not represented by the racists or the xenophobes
Some of the guys on Nauru have set up a Facebook page with their half an hour access every second day as a means of communicating with a world that they are worried might forget them and their plight. And a bunch of racist Australian rednecks are protesting...