Next year I will . . . keep my resolution

Posted: 27/12/2008 | IT’S January 1, you’re hung over and two kilos heavier after the Christmas splurge, but you’re still full of determination to make a fresh start in 2009. |

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The Christmas Elf says go and spend

Posted: 13/12/2008 | CHRISTMAS is a strange time of year. You either love it or hate it. I just work through it . . . literally. |

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Downsizing made simple

Posted: 29/11/2008 | MUST apologise to my neighbours for the noise on Thursday night. |

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Friends in deed

Posted: 22/11/2008 | ALL my best friends, past and present, are blonde. Some are ash blonde, others honey blonde and one or two are blonde by their own design. |

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Big C a chink in knight's armour

Posted: 8/11/2008 | OKAY ladies you asked for it! This week’s column is about the big C. COMMITMENT. Looks impressive in caps, doesn’t it? |

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When life is like a Seinfeld episode

Posted: 25/10/2008 | IT’S nearing midnight on Thursday. Just 12 hours until this column is due and I’ve come up short. Not short of ideas, mind you, just short of enthusiasm to pontificate on my chosen topic this week: sins of the father and sins of the mother. |

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How we laughed in the old school yard

Posted: 11/10/2008 | DO you remember the days of the old school yard? Cat Stevens certainly had it right when he wrote the lyrics to this classic 70s song; we used to laugh a lot . . . Well, we used to laugh a lot at Golden Square High. But when the last lessons are taught and the doors close on November 28, no one will be laughing, least of all me, a former student between 1977 and 1980. |

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Price of keeping up appearances

Posted: 4/10/2008 | I’VE been told, on more than one occasion, that I’m high maintenance. |

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Fat? Don’t makea meal of it . . .

Posted: 27/09/2008 | IT’S my house that’s overweight. Not me. Chips and chocolate aren’t my problem. It’s that pile of newspapers on the coffee table, my scattergun shoe cupboard, and pantry packed with “aspirational’’ out-of-date jars of quince paste, baby capers, and wattleseed. |

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