Category: Life and stuff


So here’s the thing: I am not doing well with the NaBloPoMo (what does it stand for again?). I’m struggling to find funny, hip and cool and interesting stuff (you know, what I my usual posts are like *guffaw*) and I am coming up with nada. Naught. Zero. Zilch. Nope. Nothing.

I can just see myself by the end of the month wondering where all my wonderful readership has gone to only realise every last reader has died from boredom.

I’m sure we all know that October was Breast Cancer Awareness month and boy were we aware – pink tim tams, pink dysons, pink ribbons, pink cars, pink everything. Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of deaths among women here in Australia. Not many are aware that the number of deaths from prostate cancer are pretty much the same as deaths from breast cancer (sorry, very disjointed, not making any sense type of sentence but you get my meaning, right?)

November has been renamed MOVEMBER to raise awareness and much needed funds to support research and promote understanding and awareness of male health issues such as prostate cancer, testicular cancer and depression (yeah women don’t have a monopoly on that one).

So all you brothers out there with clean shaven faces SHAME ON YOU! HARAAM! grow a mo and show your support.

For further reading:

What is Movember?

Prostate Cancer Foundation

Alhamdullilah for today:

1. Scones baked before 7 am this morning. I am SUPERMUM.

2. A wonderful quiet breakfast with the whole family. Nobody making a mess or crying!

3. Dash to Southbank for a fun-filled day – the playground, the water and the markets.

4. Finding a great little satchel for a reasonable price.

5. Coming home before noon with three exhausted children in the back seat of the car and the littlest asleep within 10 minutes of being strapped into his chair.

6. The whole family outside weeding the garden (long overdue mind you).

7. JUST ENOUGH polaramine in the bottle for my allergies due to #6.

8. Polaramine’s sedative properties. (Husband says I should not be blogging “under the influence.”

9. A cool bed to sleep in.

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