Category Archives: Celebrations
Wrap up
Welcome into my life 2012. I’m planning for you to herald in a new season of battles few and pleasures many. I’m the first to admit that 2011 didn’t go …
Getting things wrong
Have you ever got things really around the wrong way? How about a really bad red nose day? I was invited to a 40th birthday. Theme: starlets, harlots and madmen. …
Autumn
Autumn. Keats wrote a beautiful ode to it. ‘To Autumn’ is reflective of life as a season whereby there is growth, harvest and death. Is it strange we appreciate the hues …
Writing a letter to Santa
Dear Santa It’s been a while. I guess I stopped writing because you stopped listening. I understand you may have had a little trouble finding me over the years so I’m letting …
Getting into the spirit
Yes, Halloween is just another commercial spinner to entice us to buy pumpkins, eyeball marshmallows, pumpkin pails and vampire teeth. And it seems, toilet paper. Believe it or not, this …
Loving someone you’re not sleeping with
I’ve felt it just for the sake of it. Then again, who hasn’t? I’m sure I’ve had a need that I wanted someone else to provide. When they did, I’m …
Sing: even when you can’t
First I was afraid, I was petrified. The shower fog slowly disperses to allow the morning’s rendition to begin. Born to be W-I-L-D Windows are up tight in the Hyundai …
Stripping off the winter blues
I don’t like it. But I can handle it. I’ve stripped off in the snow. I’ve jumped into Russia’s chilly Lake Baikal with ice around the edge. This winter I’ve …
Fairy bread
Going to children’s birthday parties is guaranteed to take one back to childhood. Fresh white bread slathered with way too much butter. Scattered hundreds and thousands. Seated at a brown …
Going for a 5 o’clock knock off drink and it’s not Friday
It’s been a long week. I’ve said goodbye to a friend who has now moved interstate. Been dumped (ok, I’ve been ignored but I’m guessing that means he doesn’t want …
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