I received a huge slap in the face when I logged on this morning! So much so that I needed to go and do some stuff away from the computer and let my blood pressure go back down again.
Simon’s Money Notes conducted an exercise to work out which blogs were “worth commenting on“:
The exercise is [...]

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It is not a trick question.
I’d really like to ask you – do you think, deep deep down inside – that you deserve happiness?

My dear friend Chris has a provocative post over at her Take a Bite blog – about whether you deserve to be loved… Secrets of Staying Together – Deserving. As a [...]

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“Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.” -Robert Heinlein
I disagree! I don’t think it is lazy to look for an easier way to do things at all!
In this century, we’ll all running around like headless chooks trying to make ends meet. Life seems to get faster [...]

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This may be one of those "where have you beeen??" moments, but now I have found it, I have to share.
"Every girl deserves to feel beautiful just the way she is."

This is particularly poignant for me as the mother of a 13 year old girl.
This film clip – Dove Evolution – shows a model’s transformation [...]

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After a successful launch of SOXS last week, I sat down to think about my own personal Christmas (and yes, I’ve invited the whole family HERE this year… that’s a story for another post.)  And checking my diary, I realised that even though the kids only went back to school for term 4 last week, [...]

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It is enough to do your head in! 
Have you noticed that there are so many polarised opinions on what it is you should eat to be healthy, or to lose weight?
There is the low fat lot – where you eat reduced fat or no fat food in order to lose weight (Weight Watchers and [...]

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Spring is definitely here with a bang this week in sunny Queensland.  And yesterday, being the final week day of the school holidays, G and I took the boys to the beach.  Teenboy wanted to have another surfing lesson to build on his budding skill, and master 7 loves to jump the waves and bop [...]

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