Who Better to Know?

I popped in to have a cuppa with my dear friend Marita the other day. As we were chatting, she suddenly put her hand up and said ‘Sigourney (her nick-name for me, went from weaver to that!) I’ve got this warty thing on my hand’.   I immediately offered to purchase said wart. Marita had never […]

Sunday Mornings

Don’t you just love the weekends – especially Sunday mornings.  Picture this: yummy cooked brekky, reading the papers, second cup of brewed coffee and still in my pink silk PJs – and yet it’s still only 11am.  Love it! Not one to ‘waste’ a second, time for a shower and pop the lippy on and ready for […]

Night on the Tiles

One of our favourite aunty things to do is follow Aunty Lush into debauchery and sing dance and drink til the sun comes up… Then aunty lush puts on another head (she has six), her makeup and goes to town while the rest of wonder in our hungover state why we didn’t protect ourselves from […]

Tread Lightly…

 Many of us are now switched into green habits. We turn off appliances at the wall, we aim to catch public transport more often and we take our own bags to the supermarket. We are aware of the ‘reduce, reuse and recycle’ campaign. We don’t litter, we quietly regift and many of us have downsized […]

She’s So Vain…

You know those things your mother does that you think I’m never going to do? Then you find yourself in the change room looking at your hair not the outfit you are trying on? That’s Mary O’Leary… and it turns out so am I. I am an exercise nutter. I’ve been a member at my […]

Our Girl Jill

Last week I arose to a quiet house, no alarm, sun gently twinkling at the curtain corners. I stretched warm and comfortable in the knowledge I had plenty of time to attend to my ‘mind of its own’ hair before alighting the train, with dignity and aplomb for the journey to the big smoke. FUCK… […]