Yesterday I received an email from WordPress which read “Our stats helper monkeys have been busy putting together a personalized report detailing how your blog did in 2015!” which was nice. Problem was you had to click to view the full report online and I couldn’t log in to see because none of my passwords attempts worked. I think this could be a subtle way of telling me how the blog did in 2015 because clearly I am a very bad blogger if I cannot even log in to the report.
Non blogging tips, thank you and the best #5minutes video ever made.
December 30, 2015 by 3 Comments
Why I could never celebrate Christmas
December 16, 2015 by 8 Comments
Regular readers will know that I am Jewish, this means that I don’t celebrate Christmas. No gifts, no trees, no decorations, no big feast (I do that one often enough). And no, as I outlined in the video below, Chanukah is nothing like Christmas. Nothing. The only similarity is that they both start with a Ch. Although some people spell Hannukah with an H.
Every year around this time I watch in awe and wonder as people get ready for the festive season. And with absolutely no disrespect to anyone at all, it reaffirms for me how I could never ever celebrate Christmas. [Read more…]
Sarah Haynes, nobody’s school is perfect. But we already know that
December 8, 2015 by 4 Comments
Recently Sarah Haynes, the school captain of Ravenswood made news by telling it like she saw it at her farewell assembly. My first thought was that Ravenswood sounded like a house out of Harry Potter but my second and subsequent thoughts were much more considered.
Sarah is young, she is in a privileged position of leadership and I believe she should take that position seriously. It doesn’t matter whether the school is private, public or part of Hogwarts.
When you are an adult and you work for an organisation you tow the organisation’s line. Sometimes you don’t agree with it but there are other things that make you happy so you shut up and accept it. Sometimes it’s too much so you pack your bags and go. At the farewell party you smile graciously and then, if you want to burn all your bridges, you send a tirade by group email when you leave. Hint: It’s never a good idea to burn all your bridges. There are better way to handle things than the element of surprise bomb when your nearest and dearest are gathered together.
“I want this place looking like Disney on Ice”
November 12, 2015 by 2 Comments
I am that person you mock, the clean freak (with respect to vegetable growers and Michelle Bridges) who is checking over my shoulder as I open the front door to invite you in, the woman you never want to invite into your own home after you have seen me complaining about the mess in my (very neat) home.
I know it’s a problem for some, but I just can’t help being a bit fastidious about cleanliness.
I haven’t been for any form of therapy for my particularly tidy ways around the house (although I am keen to get to the bottom of why everyone doesn’t behave like I do) but I do know that my issue with cleanliness is based on having a sense of order around me. Ordered house, ordered head. Mr Pencil will be quick to point out that apparently I don’t need an ordered head to drive a car. Let’s just say the cleanliness obsession stops at the front door. [Read more…]
Oh Belle Gibson, I feel so sad
June 29, 2015 by 1 Comment
Last night after I watched the Belle Gibson interview on 60 Minutes I went to Facebook saying:
“I have left the Belle Gibson feeling really really sad. I know what she did was awful, illegal and immoral and there are people suffering real sickness that is way worse because of her. I do not condone her behaviour for a moment but it is clear that although she is physically well, she is clearly a very sick woman.
If we continue to listen to bloggers giving medical advice and get our “knowledge” through Googling symptoms and taking information from people with no medical qualifications, if we believe there is a cure that the medical profession is hiding from us, these kind of incidents will happen again and again.
GO TO A DOCTOR. Don’t look to the internet for medical advice.”
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Did you watch? How right am I? What did you think?
#5minutes with Kerri and Lana : The Ugly Child Edition
April 30, 2015 by 3 Comments
Recently there was a post on Reddit from a woman who wrote saying that she was aware that her child was ugly or, er not conventionally attractive. Kerri wrote a post about it on Essential Kids and caused a few people to say things that were quite ugly or, er not conventionally attractive.
We chatted about ugly kids here. But far and away the best part is how antsy Kerri gets at the end. And my facial reaction to her snippy farewell.
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#5minutes with Kerri and Lana: The Compassion Edition
April 29, 2015 by 4 Comments
Today felt sombre and heavy. It was a sad day. A day of mourning and compassion. Not just for Andrew Chan and Muyaran Sukumaran, not just for the people of Nepal.
Kerri and I chatted about Andrew, Muyaran, Nepal, Kerri’s knee, compassion and much more.
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5 minutes with Kerri and Lana: The birth experience I never had
April 7, 2015 by 25 Comments
A couple of weeks ago there was a ridiculous meme making its way around the Internet written by an almost hilariously ridiculous group who are clearly either attention seeking, satirical or downright bonkers.
The meme that caused the big stir was accompanied by the words “Pregnancy is a beautiful thing as it is the zenith of a woman’s role in a moral Christian society. If God has decided to call you home, it is not up to you or a doctor to reject Him. You may find yourself cast into the lake of fire for doing so. God’s Peace.” I laughed at the angst in that post but when I saw how much media attention it was getting I felt slightly uncomfortable that someone with clear issues was getting so much time in the limelight.
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