It’s Not All Puppies and Kittens

 
It’s Valentine’s Day. Most romantic day of the year, or a pile of steaming Hallmark claptrap? For some it’s a day of expectations and romance, for others feelings of contempt or loneliness. It’s only one day, it gets to have a brief appearance between other commercial performances like Christmas, selling made-in-China Australian flags for Australia [...]

It feels a little odd to be celebrating anything given the state of the world right now, but for a moment of self indulgence and reflection – I’m another year older today(well, yesterday by the time I post this). Meanwhile over here on the east coast of Australia, we have one state under water and [...]

I’ve got quite a substantial ‘to read’ pile, as one could reasonably expect if you’ve seen my bookshelves. Although I’ve also got a ever growing ‘wish list’ kept in a pretty journal, but as much as I love writing lists, I’m not one for writing journal entries in an actual book. Far from being a [...]

If  you’ve read some of my previous posts you’d have noticed that my dear, sweet boyfriend likes to profess his love for me in strange ways. First twisted, now I’m just the bane of his existence. No sorry, wait – I was just informed that I have always been the bane of his existence (thanks for [...]

Here, I suppose the use of the word ‘problem’ depends entirely on whose perspective you’re taking. Note also the my reference to “the” problem, it’s not my problem – and see, I’m even conceding that other people could find the number of books in our reasonably small apartment to actually be a problem (oh, the horror).
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