Everything is disposable except people
Posted: December 11, 2012 Filed under: LOVE, SONGS, Thought For the Day | Tags: beating cancer, Bee Gees, Cancer, friendship, How Can You Mend A Broken Heart, love 3 CommentsA beautiful soul just left the earth too soon. I see too many sweet young souls die in my work life. I hope she is in the arms of the angels. One day cancer will be a bad memory.
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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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Ah Frankie
Posted: December 2, 2012 Filed under: LOVE, Thought For the Day | Tags: Classic Songs, Frank Sinatra, I've Got A Crush On You, love songs Leave a commentShare this:
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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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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Crikey! It’s Steve Irwin Day
Posted: November 15, 2012 Filed under: AUSTRALIA, Thought For the Day | Tags: Australia Zoo, Australian animals, Crikey, famous Australians, International Crocodile Rescue, jaws of death, Steve Irwin, Steve Irwin Day, The Crocodile Hunter, Wildlife Warriors 3 CommentsSteve Irwin was a modern day Noah. The man was as mad as a cut snake but he was also a conservationist who cared about animals and wanted to change the way humans treat the natural world. I remember the day he died so clearly. Phillipe Cousteau Junior, the grandson of Jacques Cousteau said of Steve Irwin,
“I think why Steve was so excited about it that we were looking at these animals that people think of as, you know, dangerous and deadly monsters, and they’re not. They all have an important place in the environment and in the world. And that was what his whole message was about.”
Thanks Steve, you are gone but not forgotten. Your work and your legacy live on.
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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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Sisters are doing it
Posted: October 10, 2012 Filed under: AUSTRALIA, FEMINISM, Thought For the Day | Tags: anti women, Australian Politics, feminism, first Australian female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, misogynist politicians, sexism, strong female leaders Leave a commentI was so happy to be an Australian feminist today, our Prime Minister held the political misogynists up to the light and called them on their rampant sexism. Change is coming.
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