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Taking Advantage Of Bad Luck and Boredom

February 5, 2013 in Anecdotes, Music, People, Society, Travel, Work

Recently on my way home, I got stuck on a bus in the middle of Sydney Harbour Bridge. There had been a 6 car pile-up and nearly all the north-bound lanes were blocked as emergency services cleared the wreckage and treated the injured. There’s nowhere to go once you’re on the bridge…we couldn’t step off and just walk to the footpath…there isn’t one. We were stuck! When I was younger, this would have been a difficult situation for me. I didn’t cope well with bad luck and boredom when I was in my 20s and 30s. I would have been angry with whoever had [...]

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In The Flesh & Monique’s Celeb Top 5

August 24, 2012 in Celebrity, Dating, Entertainment, Health, Mental Health, Relationships, Wedding

Happy Friday Everyone! Hope you’ve all had an absolutely lovely week and have an even better weekend planned, I know I do. This past week in Hollywood has been full of surprises with a couple I didn’t even know were dating (that’s right, I did not know) announcing their engagement, a comedian self-medicating a heart attack, a shocking death, a singing sweetheart breaking the cardinal rule of NOT attending weddings you weren’t invited to and the biggest shock, OK, maybe not shock, but the biggest scandal of them all: we all got to see Prince Harry in his birthday suit… [...]

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If There Was A Fire, What Would You Take?

July 17, 2012 in Family, Fathers, Home, Lifestyle, Mothers, People, Relationships, Self

I quite frequently have “what if” thoughts. This isn’t uncommon, most people would have them. But I probably have them more than the average person. There are lots of trees outside my bedroom window and my house is not what one would call a “quiet house”, despite knowing this, whenever I hear a sound as I’m trying to sleep, my mind invariably goes to “what would happen if someone came into the house and attacked me? Dad is up the other end of the house and I would probably be dead before he would hear me scream”. Yes, my mind [...]

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