Girl Power

As a kid most of my favourite songs came from television advertisements.
My mum would constantly remind me that as a 3-year-old, I would sing with great enthusiasm and feeling to a particular song to the point that she actually thought I truly “felt” and “lived” the lyrics – at some point – maybe in a previous [...]

Breview #2 – ‘The Witches of Eastwick’ by John Updike

My first taste of John Updike, I was enchanted by his bewitching prose. Friends have avoided Updike due to perceived misogyny but I felt he was equally scathing of both sexes here. Perfect for a book group debate as its themes have since bubble-bubbled, toiled and troubled my weary head.
(I can’t believe it took me [...]

Sea Gates

I have walked past this place on the Strand in Williamstown a gazillion times and each time a much needed sense of calm and tranquility courses through me like honey. Anyone and everyone who’s ever walked with me chants “Yes, yes, we know. That’s your house, Mel…”
Something about the place just stirs a desire for simple living [...]

Turning A Corner

Yesterday I had the misfortune to be walking up an intimate Melbourne CBD side street at the exact same time a couple of people from my past were walking in the opposite direction.
I was off with the fairies with thoughts of holiday destinations involving sun-loving, cossie wearing days capped off with seafood dining evenings getting drunk on wine [...]

Sunkissed

Whenever I see this photo my uterus goes off on a frustrating little frolic of its own, jumping up and down and screaming for a new occupant. This is my 14 month old squidgy, pudgy mass of sugar and spice and all things nice with her copper pigtails and sausage legs. I love the  way she’s holding [...]

Music My Mum Mortified Me With as a Kid But Which I’m Now Growing Into #1

As a kid, for years and years, the running joke between my parents was that according to my mum, Tom Jones was God’s gift to women, whilst my dad figured Tom was God’s gift to men who happened to be that way inclined.

As a 3 year old, this was a very early lesson in the sexual [...]

It’s About the Journey, Man

I initially fell into blogging when I had a blogger account to comment on the blogs of friends I had in “real life”.
When said friends would harass me to write my own blog, I would say “Get oooouuuuutttt. I’m not a writer. I’m visual. I paint. And create ‘n’ stuff… I could never explain myself in [...]

Random Conversation #50

In the context of discussing the controversy around the Dwarf Jockey Race at the Cranbourne Cup.
She: It always annoyed me how people call midgets “dwarves” and vice versa. There’s a clear distinction between the two. A midget is nothing like a dwarf.
He: Dwarves have regular trunks, whereas midgets are just little people.
She: Exactly.
He: They’re sposed [...]

Cake Porn #2

I dunno why but a whole stack of people are reaching this blog doing a google search for “cake porn”.  The mind just boggles as to what it is they are actually looking for.
They then immediately appear to leave on noticing it’s not choc full of coconut covered rum balls or custard oozing cannoli’s or buttered [...]

My Partner is Determined to Turn My Child Into a Geek

My partner txted me this image today while he was out with my daughter having one of their Daddy/Daughter days. 

I can see her thought processes in action:
“Who is this blue woman? Why is her head smaller than mine? I think she’s gonna eat me. Daddy, are you seriously gonna take a photo of her eating me? [...]