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Posted: 6/01/2009 | My younger sister told me over Christmas about the time my mother decided to try topless sunbathing. My mother had hit her 40s - about the same age I am now. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 2/01/2009 | Is your life in balance? | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 1/01/2009 | I wasn't surprised to receive a slow cooker for Christmas. | CommentsComments (1)
Posted: 31/12/2008 | Scientists are interested in the chemistry of alcohol. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 30/12/2008 | Doggone it, we love our pooches. I had a customer who rang recently wanting to book a cottage next to the motel for two weeks. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 29/12/2008 | Watching a movie in a cinema used to be fun. Now it's just a nightmare of disruptions. Kilmeny Adie has her say. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 26/12/2008 | All the great quotes of 2008, sadly, seem to be sad ones. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 25/12/2008 | "Another Christmas card!" I exclaimed, excitedly ripping away the envelope to reveal a jolly message from my local real estate agent wishing me unbridled joy, happiness and a free house appraisal. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 23/12/2008 | Two thousand and eight years ago, so the Christmas story goes, there was a miraculous birth. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 19/12/2008 | I had the great privilege of watching Evonne Goolagong Cawley win the last of her seven grand slam singles titles at Wimbledon in 1980. | CommentsComments (1)
Posted: 18/12/2008 | If you only get to see one movie this year - you're running out of time. Why not make it Four Holidays, the new rom-com starring Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn? | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 16/12/2008 | Spend, spend, spend. Everyone wants us to splash our cash: the Government, retailers, manufacturers, tradies, charities, restaurateurs, pubs and clubs. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 12/12/2008 | To say that my morning routine once included tying my shoelaces, putting on my tie, combing my hair, drinking tea, eating toast and puffing on my pipe is singularly unremarkable. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 11/12/2008 | When self-confessed plant killer Glen Humphries decided to go green and start a vegetable garden, he aimed small. Well, for a little while.... | CommentsComments (2)
Posted: 11/12/2008 | My husband's employer decided to throw this year's Christmas party in the big smoke, flying in regional workers and their partners from around the state. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 9/12/2008 | A couple of Christmases ago I thought I would surprise Cybergirl with a you-beaut techno Chrissie present. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 8/12/2008 |  Baz Luhrmann's romantic epic Australia wasn't released in time to be eligible for the Australian Film Industry awards at the weekend, but it gets my vote for film of the year. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 4/12/2008 | You'll notice two sorts of people wandering among us over the next two months: miserable people and happy people. There'll be no shades of grey. | CommentsComments (2)
Posted: 2/12/2008 | Over and out Movember. Let's hear it for the razor gang and the clean-cut cowboy. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 27/11/2008 | The phone rang frightfully early. "I've found it," Mum spoke breathlessly down the line. "I've got Mele Kalikimaka." | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 25/11/2008 | Cybergirl has discovered the joys of retail therapy. She has also discovered that if she wants to buy, she has to earn. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 21/11/2008 | Australians are often telling each other to "go to buggery", but how many have ever been there? I have. | CommentsComments (1)
Posted: 20/11/2008 | I resisted Facebook for a long time until curiosity and peer pressure conspired to hurl me into the breach. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 11/11/2008 | I have a T-shirt with a quote across the front from one of the great men of our time - Martin Luther King. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 7/11/2008 | As I count the cost of yet another Melbourne Cup failure, I think it's time to salute that vast, unheralded army of people - losers. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 6/11/2008 | People often ask how I manage to work from home with young children in tow. I show them a few bottle-shop receipts and let them figure out the rest. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 4/11/2008 | Last week I got stuck in the lavatory. No, I am not the equivalent of three ladies and I am not particularly old, but there I was trapped behind a door that would not budge. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 31/10/2008 | The last thing I expected to see was a native firing blow darts. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 30/10/2008 | Nothing ends unless it ends badly. Of this simple truth I am certain. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 28/10/2008 | Yo-yos are back in the playground. I know it's not a new phenomenon. Every few years they make a comeback to the schoolyard. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 23/10/2008 | The older my mother gets, the more fearful she becomes. She's frightened of odd things, random things -pretty much everything. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 21/10/2008 | Women love sex. And sometimes they love it more than men. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 17/10/2008 | Personally I would prefer a soft Brahms lullaby and a bubble bath, but there's no understating the volcanic charge I felt at the starting grid of the Bathurst 1000 | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 14/10/2008 | I usually get very protective of my little patch of paradise during the warmer months. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 10/10/2008 | It's not smart for any institution to lock out half the population. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 7/10/2008 | We are what we eat, or so they say. | CommentsComments (2)
Posted: 2/10/2008 | It's the strangest rite of passage, that now-obligatory question posed to new political leaders and their emergent rivals: "Have you ever smoked marijuana?" | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 30/09/2008 | For the second year in a row footy fan GLEN HUMPHRIES won't be watching the NRL grand final. Read on to find out why. | CommentsComments (2)
Posted: 30/09/2008 | For years I have been trying to cure my addiction. I know it won't kill me, give me some incurable medical condition, except maybe turn my brain to mush, it doesn't cost much and it's sort of okay to do it in front of the kids. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 25/09/2008 | The closing ceremony of the Beijing Paralympics rounded off a spectacular month for international sport, beginning with the glory and ending with the guts. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 16/09/2008 | I was sitting at a school function, eavesdropping on conversations as you do, when my ears pricked up. | CommentsComments (1)
Posted: 10/09/2008 | Kids might think cartoons are just plain fun but GLEN HUMPHRIES is finding them baffling. Admit it, you've always wondered why Donald Duck doesn't wear pants. | CommentsComments (1)
Posted: 9/09/2008 | My partner has a fascination with number plates, or more precisely, the jumbled characters on display. | CommentsComments (1)
Posted: 3/09/2008 | She's 50, fit and many would say fabulous. So why's she still dressing like a 25-year-old? Glen Humphries thinks it's time Madonna grew up. | CommentsComments (18)
Posted: 26/08/2008 | Athletes take a back seat. You've earned enough glory and medals to keep you going for another four years. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 25/08/2008 | All LOUISE TURK thought she needed to become a domestic goddess was a set of sharp knives. The reality proved somewhat different. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 25/08/2008 | How much interaction do you like with shop assistants? KILMENY ADIE believes some are stepping over the mark. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 22/08/2008 | Who are your heroes of the Olympics? Looking beyond the obvious ones for a moment, such as the actual winners, I have picked a few. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 21/08/2008 | I suspect motherhood has taken a toll on my hearing. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 19/08/2008 | There's a principal in natural medicine called the doctrine of signatures. Basically it says that where a medicinal product is found, and what it looks like, determines what it can be used to treat. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 18/08/2008 | Glen Humphries thinks it's high time some Olympic events were shown the door. Do you agree with his choices? | CommentsComments (8)
Posted: 16/08/2008 | China might be short of a few things, like iron ore, political freedom and oxygen, but one thing it is not short of is people. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 14/08/2008 | Another birthday sailed by this week like driftwood on the current. When do birthdays stop knocking at the front door of one's life and instead sneak through the back like overly familiar guests? I think it's 35. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 12/08/2008 | There is a legion of half-centurions bearing down on me -and I am about to join their ranks. Strangely, I feel very relaxed and comfortable with the idea. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 8/08/2008 | Does it get any better than this? That's what I was thinking when my brother called my mobile to wish me a happy birthday, and asked what I was doing. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 5/08/2008 | Climate change is doing more than just ruining our environment. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 4/08/2008 | What has happened to the good old film soundtrack? It seems to me musicians no longer connect the release of their singles to a movie and studios are not putting the same amount of time and money into these cinematic musical celebrations. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 31/07/2008 | Would it depress you to learn the vast majority of your formal learning is irrelevant? | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 29/07/2008 | It was a swanky restaurant overlooking Sydney Harbour and we were being lectured by a rather pompous waiter. | CommentsComments (1)
Posted: 25/07/2008 | One of my earliest memories is standing on top of a coal shed and jumping off. Just launching myself over the rose bushes and into the ether, eyes turned upwards to the heavens. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 24/07/2008 | I suppose recipe writers think they're pretty clever. It takes a certain amount of arrogance to reduce an innate understanding of culinary chemistry down to a single list and a few steps. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 23/07/2008 | "If you want to contact me you need to phone me when I am home or send me a letter by post," said an active elder of our community. Another energetic contemporary of his generation communicates almost exclusively by email and text messages. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 22/07/2008 | Playstation is just discovering the joy of memories. But for a five-year-old, memories are something that happened only hours or, at the most, days before. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 21/07/2008 | Have you seen the joke doing the rounds about celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay's omelette recipe? | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 21/07/2008 | The Dark Knight has much to offer movie fans but there can be no doubting it is Heath Ledger's film. Kilmeny Adie reviews the film. | CommentsComments (2)
Posted: 21/07/2008 | Kick up your heels with the feelgood film Mamma Mia! Ilsa Cunningham sung along to ABBA at a screening. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 17/07/2008 | I wonder which brave friend or relative was the first to tell Nicole Kidman she'd effectively assured her new baby a lifetime of comparisons with pork crackling and seasoned spuds? | CommentsComments (2)
Posted: 16/07/2008 | Has the laid-back lucky country become stressed-out Australia? While we like to think of ourselves as chilled out and cheerful, a new survey paints a much more anxious picture of modern Australian life. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 15/07/2008 | I've always wondered about the saying: No news is good news. Does it mean everything you hear/read is bad or if you don't hear anything that's good? | CommentsComments (1)
Posted: 10/07/2008 | I've never made a pretty penny on property and my only stockmarket stabs both ended in tears. (A secret gold mine in the hills of Russia, you say? A rigged auction? Well, heck, that sounds watertight. Here, take my firstborn's inheritance!) | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 8/07/2008 | Last year, my husband used to boast that he could fit into a pair of jeans he bought when he was 17. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 7/07/2008 | The Sydney-Wollongong trip is said to be the busiest inter-city commuter corridor in Australia, with more than 20,000 Illawarra residents making the trek to the big smoke every working day. | CommentsComments (3)
Posted: 3/07/2008 | Would the Iguanas scandal that has recently rocked NSW state politics have been nearly as salacious if the events had taken place at, say, Bob's Bar & Bistro or Ling's local Chinese? | CommentsComments (1)
Posted: 1/07/2008 | Last week I declared a whinge-free zone. I was spurred on by a discussion on radio which stated that if I could avoid complaining for 21 days I would break the habit, never to return to the dark side of the moan again. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 27/06/2008 | Hands up who knows what a key grip, a best boy or a gaffer is? Hands up who cares? | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 26/06/2008 | I'm not a smacker but not out of some deeply passionate belief that it is a horrendous and draconian form of child torture. I'm just not very good at it. It's a lot of hard work and I'd hate to hurt someone, most of all me. | CommentsComments (1)
Posted: 24/06/2008 | I have been warned by my brothers that I'm not allowed to mention them - or their children - ever again in print. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 19/06/2008 | What a glorious modern fairytale is the new Sex And The City movie: four women remaining tight and true for each other through 10 years of men, mayhem and a token dash of motherhood. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 17/06/2008 | I was not a child of the universe. I wish I had been. My older sisters were. They wore bell-bottom jeans, flowers in their hair and grooved to The Beatles, Bob Dylan and Johnny O'Keefe. | CommentsComments (1)
Posted: 12/06/2008 | Ran into an old friend this week whose breast size had doubled since the last time I saw her. | CommentsComments (1)
Posted: 10/06/2008 | Like most people, I do a lot of things that make me feel guilty. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 9/06/2008 | There's a nine-year-old rugby league fan in Kiama called Matt who idolises Matt Cooper. His favourite item of clothing is a pint-sized Dragons jumper with Matt emblazoned across the back. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 6/06/2008 | When we roar ourselves hoarse watching our favourite sporting teams, do we really know who and what we are barracking for? | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 5/06/2008 | The Queen's minions were up in arms not long ago when Britain's former first lady, Cherie Blair, released her memoirs. | CommentsComments (1)
Posted: 3/06/2008 | It was only a small thing, but by gee it got up my nose. My favourite brand of soap had vanished from the supermarket shelf. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 29/05/2008 | I recently caught up with an old high school friend who filled me in on what our alma mater have been up to for the past 20 years or so. | CommentsComments (4)
Posted: 28/05/2008 | Today, the choice to remain unattached is not such a social stigma, although it still raises eyebrows and generates gossip, not just among family, but also it seems among the community at large. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 23/05/2008 | When I turn a light switch on, I often think of a bloke I met in the Rocky Mountains. He doesn't have electricity in his remote log cabin, and the power I take for granted would qualify as an incredible luxury for this real-life mountain man. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 22/05/2008 | Lately I've used every storage cupboard in the house, plus the kitchen pantry, under the dining table, behind the couch and - I kid you not - inside the dog's kennel (unused so very clean), all in the interests of completing a phone call in peace. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 20/05/2008 | Dogs, you either love 'em or hate 'em. The people who despise our four-legged friends often fear them, find their barking irritating and certainly resent stepping in their droppings. | CommentsComments (2)
Posted: 16/05/2008 | Halfway through the final term of a torrid match, Jack Gibson turned to a halfback sitting on the reserves bench and asked him: "Can you go out there and do the job, son?" "I'll do my best," the eager young footballer replied. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 15/05/2008 | The increasing popularity of stories driven by obsessively compulsive protagonists has exposed an intriguing truth about the human condition: we are all nutbags at heart. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 14/05/2008 | When Treasurer Michael Costa took to the stage of the NSW Labor Conference recently, he gave a performance worthy of a Logie, best male actor in a drama series. | CommentsComments (1)
Posted: 9/05/2008 | I'm all for whinging, provided the cause is fair and just. "It's a man's world", "Middle age bites", "Is it too much to ask for a decent blow-dry in this town?" These are all legitimate whinges. | CommentsComments (2)
Posted: 9/05/2008 | My Scottish background makes me question the wisdom of paying good money to tell the world, via my car registration plate, that IM2SXY. | CommentsComments (2)
Posted: 9/05/2008 | Ilsa Cunningham rediscovers the freedom and fun of riding a bike. | CommentsComments (2)
Posted: 26/03/2008 | Where's Gordon Ramsay when you need him? GLEN HUMPHRIES discovers some Illawarra eateries are lagging in their service skills. | CommentsComments (2)
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