There's so much more to Easter than chocolate bunnies and easter eggs. And heaven knows aren't we trying to be good and cut down on saturated fats and sugar? Perhaps this Easter, if you're into … [Read more...]
How to buy the perfect gift at Easter and beyond (not including chocolate or white elephants)
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Why an Empty Nest isn’t always best. The Empty Nest Syndrome.
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When the kids fly the nest, what do you plan to do? Go on holiday without having to please everyone, sleep in late, chuck out all the iron-on name tags, never pack a lunch ever again, find time to … [Read more...]
Help! It’s a Melanoma. Why you should get your skin checked regularly.
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There’s a moment in everyone’s life when you suddenly stop sweating the small stuff. When the world seems to stop spinning and remains motionless on its axis. When breathing stops. Just … [Read more...]
The Casanova guide to Valentine’s Day
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From kings and queens to presidents, poets, actors and actresses, history is filled with the stories of famous love stories and unrequited romances. In the popular imagination Casanova needs no … [Read more...]
How to lose weight – even if you can’t stick to a diet.
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My hand is up, I have to admit, I've fallen off the healthy eating rails this last week. We've had friends staying with us, and every night (and some days) have been filled with all the very best … [Read more...]
7 Lifestyle Tips and How to lose weight the Healthy Way. Week 3.
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Weight LossTips to help you stay on track and focussed. Thank you for joining in the quest to lose 5kgs (in a healthy way) and for all your encouraging comments, your emails and the Facebook … [Read more...]
6 healthy weight loss tips. Week two.
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Do it Lose 5 - Healthy weight loss. It's week two on ZigaZag's lose 5kgs the healthy way, and I hope if you're tagging along that you had a successful first week? If you missed part one, then here … [Read more...]
How to lose weight the healthy way. A Quest and a Question from WA.
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Travelling lots, even if it's just discovering something or somewhere new locally, is something I love to do. But even a weekend away can play havoc with an exercise routine and healthy eating plan. … [Read more...]
What do women want in a blog?
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Do you prefer reading travel stories or articles about life issues? I’ll admit. I often get bloggers’ block, when I have tons of ideas to blog about, many at the half-edited stage in my drafts … [Read more...]
Make Mine A Green Pear Reviver! “Shades of Jose”
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Today I'm travelling, but ficticiously, to Melbourne in search of a cocktail called a Green Pear Reviver for a Nuffnang Australia competition. Nuffnang recently hosted a Blog Conference in … [Read more...]
The Secret and the Drunk monkey
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The power of positive thinking According to quantum physics it seems that I’m essentially only an illusion. A little blob of vibrating energy that flits about, effecting little change in an ever … [Read more...]
What’s great about the 21st Century
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"The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there." From the Go-Between. I don’t believe in the good old days. I’ll admit the world is facing many crises but I still … [Read more...]
Farewell Christmas in Australia, Hello New Year!
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Christmas in Australia And so Christmas is over. The last of the turkey has been eaten, the ham bone is boiling in the pot smelling delicious ready to be made into soup. And our grown-up children … [Read more...]
6 Reasons (not) to write a To Do list
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I'm a big lists person. I make lists all the time. The sad thing is it doesn’t make me more organized, far from it it seems to have the opposite effect because I have lists scrawled on scraps of … [Read more...]
The (not so) Glamorous life of a (mid-life) blogger
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Melbourne I’m sitting on the white sheets of a bed in the Formule 1 Hotel on Elizabeth Street in Melbourne eating passion fruit yoghurt out of the tub, using the plastic lid which I’ve … [Read more...]
Empty Nester
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“Out out Damn spot”, cried Lady Macbeth, and I feel a little the same these days as I cast off the shackles of my old thinking and child rearing chains to embrace all that’s so new in our brave … [Read more...]
Give me the Sunset
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There are people who love the quiet peaceful moments of dawn when the sun makes its appearance over the horizon and the world is fresh and new. I am not one of them. In fact, apart from my husband, … [Read more...]
