Road Safety in the Holiday Season

Article from The Sydney Morning Herald here.
A woman crashed her car while driving last night in Sydney. Nothing unusual there. The thing that caught my eye was that she was allegedly six times over the legal drink-driving limit and she had her three year old daughter in the car. She had been to a university [...]

Age is a product of the mind

No, body and mind, I think. I keep on thinking “Who stole my beautiful skin and exchanged it for old lady’s skin? Who stole my hairstyle and decided I could have a middle-aged haircut?” The latter is particularly annoying. I had my hair cut yesterday and today it looks horrible. I almost wore a scarf [...]

Cats and Dogs

Here’s a cute gallery of cats and dogs being friends that makes me smile.
Of course, I need my daily LOLcat fix, too. I often e-mail links to DH, especially those that remind me of our little furry darlings. OK, sometimes they’re not very sweet and the Siamese can yodel up a storm when she’s hungry [...]

That darn cat!

The Mysterious Sumkitty, Perpetrator of Evil and Chaos, hit my kitchen on Monday while I was at work and DD was at childcare. None of the three cats will own up to this so apparently it was Sumkitty who did it.
Sumkitty peed on the toaster and the powerpoint next to it, and [...]

Mmm! Mmm! (My cooking)

Ah, such sweet words! I made pumpkin soup on Tuesday evening and Mimi’s immediate reaction was “Mmmm! Mmmm!” as she lapped it up. I haven’t seen that enthusiasm for anything vegetable-based for ages.
I gave her tuna mornay on top of mashed vegetables on Weds. evening. Same response. Tuna mornay is wonderful and she would have [...]