Want to test your self-esteem? Go to a model casting.
This week I visited the Land of the Giants.
These giants though, weren’t green and gnarly and built like rectangles.
No! They were mostly blonde or brunette and smooth and built like pencils.
ONE DAY IN NEW YORK! This will be hard to beat.
A sneaky photo with Hugh Jackman backstage after the Boy from Oz, snaps with transvestites on floats in the gay Mardi Gras, the New York baseball local derby, breakfast at Balthazar, window shopping on Spring St, cheering Aussies in the New York triathlon in Central Park, a visit to the Guggenheim Museum and a trip to the top of the empire state building.
These are just some of the many things my fun-loving friend Teena and I experienced and did on a two-woman trip to the big apple.
Except we did all on that list and squeezed in a few drinks and a curbside cafe lunch all in just ONE DAY!
I’ve got a lovely bunch of coconuts!!
He didn’t scale the palm tree with his bare hands and feet.
The modern ladder was a much more efficient method to reach the top quickly and stand there safely, while he machete’d the ring of green coconuts to the ground.
There was no denying however, his traditional Fijian coconut gathering and chopping skills.
It took just seconds for him to spin the coconut in his hand and slice off the top in equi-distant portions and puncture the perfectly formed crater, to then present to us a full-to-the-brim green cup of coconut water. The kind we now know to be chock full of electrolytes and about five bucks or more a bottle. We just added ice (ok, some added vodka) and drank the refreshingly, pale liquid pretty much all day.
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Suprise! What kids do to amaze you!
When it comes to kids and surprises, there’s nothing that, … well, suprises me!
This car is an example, as you’ll soon see.
Forced to give up your kids…Could you imagine anything worse?
It’s on the front pages of all the papers and on all the television and radio news reports.
The mum on the Sunshine Coast being forced by the courts to give up her four children and send them to live in Italy with a father they claim is abusive.
At the moment the girls are in hiding with their grandmother and aunt but the two women have been ordered to front court to reveal the children’s location.
So that they can be put on a plane to Italy.
It is the most traumatic of circumstances.
How to…..feel like you have fifty shades of no clue!
Tonight I am off to see the Queensland premiere of Fifty Shades of Grey, the film. I am going with an open mind, but I don’t think the words “I liked the movie better than the book,” has ever come out of my mouth or anyone I know who likes to read. Here’s what I thought about the books back in 2012!
After reading the Fifty Shades trilogy, by E.L James, I now know 45 new ways to have sex. In theory that is!
Forget plot and storyline and character development.
You don’t need to assign a genre, like erotic romance or relationship thriller.
Instead these books should be found in the self-help section , under How To.
KINGY…The beach is back!
International tourists may never have heard of it.
Many in Australia would hazard a guess it’s in the UK, based on its royal reference, but for a fortunate number of those-in the-know, Kingscliff or “Kingy” is an irresistible lure to an immediate slow down and an astonishing strip of coastal beauty on the east coast.
For a while now its shine has been on hold, with glimpses of it’s former glory poking through ravaged pandanus trees and some scaffolded shoreline.
Mother nature, in her cycle of teaching us to appreciate our environment, lashed the Kingy coastline, stripping away sand, eroding vegetation and leaving a glum tarnish to this otherwise pristine patch of coastline.
Her mood didn’t last too long thankfully and in an upbeat change of heart the beautiful beach is back.
So, as our aussie autumn sun beats down with temperatures more akin to summer, it’s time to return or if you’ve never been there, consider Kingscliff for a visit.
Photo from Jo E
Step parenting is not a packet mix!
This is the birthday cake my youngest made for her closest in age step-sister.It was a, from-scratch classic chocolate cake that unfortunately bore no resemblance to the perfect snap on the recipe page.
But she tried hard and the good intentions weren’t half-baked.
Her arty touch helped salvage the creation, that had spilled into the oven during cooking, then collapsed on exit from it.
The icing features a chic design of a girl with a pretty dress and flowing hair, that she had sketched on paper before drawing it on flour.
Only days before, the birthday recipient of this cake had made one for the chef, who was also celebrating a birthday. A pretty pink, oversized, cupcake with silver balls that was a fusion of packet mix and superb icing.
To me , sweet examples of happy step-family flavour. And one I wish would come out of the box on more occasions.
How to host a party when your husband has a say.
How do you go from having a reasonable 30 people party, ( including kids) on a public holiday to celebrate a non-milestone birthday and a significant national event, to a cram-them-in-until-you-can’t-see of 80 or so (with some opting to leave their kids at home for fear of them being crushed) but who’s counting, event??
Easy!
You let your husband have some say.
Karryn Wheelans 