Tatts

I was reading in the paper today that Mick Cocks of Rose Tattoo passed away from cancer yesterday; the fourth member of the band to have succumbed to the disease since 2006. What are the shocking odds of that happening? Angry Anderson would be best advised to head off to the [...]

What’s New Pussycat?

I just stood at my front door perplexed as to why my front door wouldn’t open when I clicked the unlock button on my set of carkeys. For a good 30 seconds.
I feel so sick I really could cry.
I feel so sick that only coffee could possibly make me feel better, but when I dropped [...]

Even When I’ve…

…completely lost my voice – like now – partner and 4yo still feel the need to conduct their conversations THROUGH me.
Sitting in the dinky caf in Myer at Highpoint on the weekend I was quietly sipping my coke and snaffling up 3yo gossip about Liza Minelli’s weird looking ex-husband between questions being fired at me from both sides [...]

Picture This

As the weeks whiz by, my photo sitting is rapidly approaching and I’m yet to even turn my mind to the sort of theme I’m going to go with. Mainly because I hate, hate, hate having my photo taken.
What would I like it to say about me? What do I want it to project? 
Based on [...]

Random Conversation #51

It’s interesting the way the sexes will look at a music video and see completely different things.
Partner and I watched this video from Jack White’s new outfit, the Dead Weather, here:
 
She:  God, look at that suburban wasteland. That could be anywhere.
He:  …
She:  It looks just like Deer Park or St Albans. Obviously [...]

Die-Naaaasty

Some of the scariest words you can hear when you answer the phone are:
“Hi Melanie. I have great news for you. Do you remember entering a competition for a glamour photography shoot?”
Actually, no, I don’t. But I do remember my partner telling me he entered me about 4 or 5 times and that “When you [...]

Media Rann-ting

I don’t quite get why the whole SA Premier Mike Rann/Michelle Chantelois affair is making headlines; it irritates me the way the media insist on reporting a story that isn’t actually a story.
I guess in the same way people were intrigued to know the ins and outs of Monica and Bill’s trysts in the Oval Office, [...]

Blowup

I’m currently in the market for a DSLR camera for business purposes and looking at the Nikon D90 – like everyone else it seems.
My homework has involved speaking with photographer friends, visiting camera stores and surfing the net for reviews but finding it a frustrating process. Said acquaintances have been surprisingly unhelpful and the nameless, faceless reviewers [...]

Early Onset Dementia

When do people stop remembering how old they are? And do they genuinely forget or is it a subconscious (or conscious) avoidance of the ageing process?
Last night while I was resting my head on my partner’s shoulder, surfing that blissful moment between awakeness and slumber, I  mumbled “Am I 36 or 37?”
Apparently I spill all sorts [...]

Let’s Stay Together

I just counted the number of single socks sitting atop my daughter’s drawer waiting for their partner to arrive and it pains me to say that it’s 34.
Playing card games like Concentration and Fish as a child, it never occurred to me that they would have any applicable purpose in my adult life.  I never excelled at these [...]