Promise Of Spring

I watched the movie Arthur last night and I was very pleasantly surprised. I had wanted to see it and therefore knew that I wouldn’t hate it but it was, considering all of the bad reviews, much better than what I had expected.  
Russel Brand reprises the role originally played by Dudley Moore in the [...]

When you’re young, it’s impossible to sleep the night before your birthday. You know that the following day will be filled with presents, cake and loads of attention! Damn straight there will be lollies, a big party with all your friends and of course … a new outfit! As an adult these things are pretty [...]

I have been nerding it up this year and have been reluctant to venture out after dark. I have begun to prefer the sanctity of my couch and the warmth of the heater on my chilly toes as opposed to drinking cheap wine in noisy venues and waking up feeling sorry for myself as I wonder whether [...]

This morning at 6 my alarm rang and rudely told me to get the hell up and go to yoga. It rang out just as I was starting to wake into that early morning haze, squished firmly between Sunny and Matt in a lovely warm cloud of goodness (Matt spooning me. Me spooning Sunny) and [...]

I will never forget the night that my friends and I went to watch Scream at the movies. Twas a dark (possibly stormy) night in 1997 and we were eager, pimply faced teens who wore Trigger tracksuit pants and baggy Quicksilver t-shirts. My Dad dropped us off at the local cinema and we bought popcorn and cokes [...]

Karl Stefanovic of Channel 9’s Today Show was rushed to hospital on Monday evening following his Gold Logie win, upon the shocking realisation that TV Week’s highest honour is not quite the Nobel Peace Prize.
Those close to Channel 9’s leading man said that he had complained of dizziness and nausea before tumbling to the floor [...]

The Gallipoli Campaign may have been fought in vein and thousands killed in a battle that could never have been won, but regardless of the criticism and debate that clouds the day, we need to bow our heads and remember the men and boys, some as young as 14 who never grew to be old. [...]

In the caveman days, marriage meant buying a wife, having sex with her and putting her to work in the kitchen (caves came with kitchens didn’t they?). Apart from a harmless clubbing over the head, these caveman weddings were effortless, effective and most importantly, cheap!
As we slowly evolved, people began marrying for reasons other [...]

Even though our bedrooms were literally one metre apart, when we were young, my brother and I would regularly pull our mattresses into each other’s rooms and have sleep overs. Most nights we would sleep with our doors open and talk each other to sleep anyway, yet despite our neighbouring rooms, we still felt the need to [...]