Little Observations

Had A Little Work Done

Daddy took the boys to the play centre and Luca came home looking like this:   Why do injuries always happen on Daddy Watch? Hmmm…. Anyhoo, I couldn't stop looking at Luca's mouth. It just reminded me of someone and I couldn't put my finger on who it was.   It was the shape of […]

Hands

"My hands are small, I know, But they're not yours, they are my own…."                                                                     Jewel   I have always looked younger than my years. When I was a teenager, this was twelve kinds of devastating. When you're a fifteen-year-old girl under five feet tall and have no discernible breasts, it's unlikely you'll be chosen […]

Beautiful Bias

Brad Pitt and his brother, Doug. So alike…but not. Hold the hate mail but I'm about to make a confession that some of you might find deeply unpalatable. One of my kids is better looking than the other. Yes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And as their mother, I consider both my […]

After Dark

After Dark

[photo source] So last Thursday, I took to Facebook in order to piss and moan about how I had errands to run and how I was disinclined to run them with two kids in tow. So at 8pm that night, I had the ingenious idea to utilise that hallmark of Thursday evenings, late night shopping. […]

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It Ain’t Pretty

It Ain’t Pretty

[Photo Source] Meet Eden Wood. In American child beauty pageant circles, she is the reigning queen.   And now, she's coming to Australia and with her, pageant organisers, Universal Royalty. A veritable shit storm has erupted over this and despite there being about a zillion voices already competing to be heard on the contentious issue […]

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I’m Angie!  I mum. I write. I wife. My husband would say this is the correct order.  He’s so neeeedy. I live with my family in Melbourne, Australia, where I complain about the weather for 90% of the year – but I can’t imagine living anywhere else. Except maybe in Lake Como, waving to my neighbours George and Amal each morning.

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