I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons….
Posted: December 8, 2012 Filed under: SONGS, Thought For the Day, WRITERS | Tags: English songwriters, John Winston Lennon, peace, strawberry fields forever 1 Comment“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” John Lennon
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Happy Birthday Sinead
Posted: December 8, 2012 Filed under: ART, Birthdays, SONGS, Thought For the Day | Tags: Chinese astrology, December 8 birthdays, female singers, Fire Horse, Irish female singers, Sinead O'Connor, Troy 1 CommentShe is one of my favourite singers, a fiery, feisty Irish wonder. In Chinese astrology Sinead O’Connor is a Fire Horse, some people apparently find female fire horses scary. I’m one too. This is Sinead at her powerful best.
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The funniest, funnest girl I ever met
Posted: November 29, 2012 Filed under: Birthdays, LOVE, Parenting, Raising Hell, Theme Songs, Thought For the Day | Tags: cheeky monkeys, Cliff Richard, Mike, Neil, November 29 birthdays, Rik, the last freedom moped out of nowhere, Vyvyan, Young Ones 5 CommentsEight years ago today I gave birth to a nutty little monkey. My youngest daughter is going to be a stunt woman, a truck and a punk when she grows up. She shouts and makes me laugh and I couldn’t imagine a peaceful life without her. Happy birthday Miss Zen
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Happy Birthday Anna Mae
Posted: November 26, 2012 Filed under: D.I.V.O.R.C.E, LOVE, MARRIAGE, Parenting, Self improvement, SONGS | Tags: 1939 birthdays, domestic violence, female warriors, November 26 birthdays, role models for girls, Tina Turner birthday, US female singers 1 CommentTina Turner was born today in 1939. She is one of my heroes. When I was a teenager I read Tina Turner’s memoir I, Tina and I was inspired by her strength and resilience. Now I have recovered from my own abusive relationship with the help of a domestic violence counsellor, I realise how strong Tina Turner must have been to withstand regular abuse, be a mother and go on stage acting like nothing had happened for years. She is a role model for women everywhere.
I have learned from reading about Tina’s beatings at the hands of Ike that I must sing my own song, which is part Sinead O’Connor, part Miss Piggy and part Karen Carpenter on crack. Happy Birthday Tina, I love your voice and your spirit
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Whether it’s God or the bomb
Posted: November 23, 2012 Filed under: AUSTRALIA, SONGS, Thought For the Day | Tags: Australian artists, Australian musicians, Gus Till, Max Q, Michael Hutchence, Ollie Olsen, RIP Michael Hutchence 1 CommentIt’s only fear under another name
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When your dreams are dying hold tight
Posted: November 8, 2012 Filed under: COMEDY, Self improvement, SONGS, Thought For the Day, WRITERS | Tags: Australian literature, Blue Mountains, Cameron White, Dreams coming true, Evin Donohoe, Katoomba, New Radicals, Nicky Smith, The Eleanor Dark Foundation, The Writers' House, Tim Ferguson, Varuna, You get what you give 3 CommentsIn winter I spent a week at Varuna, the Writers’ House in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. My fellow comedy authors Nicky Smith, Cameron White, Evin Donohoe and the very cheeky monkey Tim Ferguson and I had a great time workshopping ideas for scripts, stand up comedy, YA novels and a sitcom, laughing, eating great dinners and drinking red wine (just a little bit on our cereal in the mornings). At Varuna I realised how my writing is almost as important to me as my children. My dream is to get my books published. I’m getting closer by the minute. I left Varuna inspired to continue my life of comedy, writing and clowning.
Whenever I think I’m not going to make it through the day or that life is just too hard, this song comes on the car radio
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Ah the 70s
Posted: October 15, 2012 Filed under: LOVE, Self improvement, Single, SONGS | Tags: 1970s music, Australian Music, Beeb Birtles, Cheesy Music, Graham Goble, I'm Coming Home, male harmonies Leave a commentThe clothes, the harmonies, the facial hair, the cheesy lyrics, I loved this music as a child in the 70s and tragically I’m still loving it all.
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On and on across the universe
Posted: October 9, 2012 Filed under: Birthdays, SONGS | Tags: John Winston Lennon, peace, Sharing all the world Leave a comment“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.”
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Let’s
Posted: October 1, 2012 Filed under: SONGS, Thought For the Day | Tags: Al Green songs, Good or Bad, Happy or Sad, Tina Turner Leave a commentShare this:
Happy birthday to me
Posted: September 19, 2012 Filed under: AUSTRALIA, Birthdays, Theme Songs | Tags: Dream A Little Dream of Me, Mama Cass, September 19 birthdays Leave a commentBrad Pitt and Johnny Depp still haven’t called me for my birthday, they must be sleeping
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