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I really can’t abide smug foodies. Want to eat organic cucumber salad on home-made sourdough followed by sheeps-milk yoghurt churned at your local organic farm, laced with honey from your uncle the bee-keeper, wrapped in recycled wax paper from the co-op store in your suburb? Go right ahead. Sounds fabulous. But if you think, for…

Let’s talk talking. Or in particular – public speaking. Supposedly it’s a huge fear for many, many people and in fact I’m sure you’ve all heard that statistic floating about that states it’s actually the BIGGEST fear people have.  Like more than spiders.  Or snakes.  Or death by fire. Now I’m willing to admit that…

I read an article yesterday that was written by a Mum who took her eleven year old daughter to Jenny Craig.  The reason given was because her daughter had low self esteem and she considered her to be overweight.  Together with her daughter the Mum gave up icecream and went for two, five mile hikes a…

  It’s clearly a polarising issue with those that believe them to be not only harmless but actually good for little girls on one side, and those that believe they are incredibly harmful to them on the other.  Clearly I believe them to be harmful and nothing I have seen recently has made me change my…

You’ve probably noticed that nearly all of my  outfits include at least one thrifted item.  Especially since spring and autumn are high shopping times for most of us, and present fabulous opportunities to hit the charity shops and score some fabulous, affordable, environmentally-friendly new duds! Make time to thrift: Very few people can duck in and…

You may be familiar with the “Dirty Dozen” and the “Clean Fifteen” which represent the vegetables and fruits known to have the highest and lowest levels of pesticides in food of all farmed foods. You may not know that the list of pesticide-laden foods was updated in April of this year to include a new…