The best sex is found in places like Barnes and Noble, Whitcoulls, Borders, Hatchards and WH Smith – all bookshops. In the real world sex can be messy and complicated. It involves feelings and emotions – and usually other people – but in books the sex is perfect … It can be whatever you want [...]
My baby left me for a man. He said he could look after her and give her what she needed! She went with him without looking back. He took her away from me and I was distraught! What was I supposed to do without my baby? I moped around the house, I tried to find [...]
There is something special about being in the countryside in a place like New Zealand. We live in a beautiful sparsely populated country. Here at the biggest North Island ski field we drive along deserted country roads, passing wild farms and rolling hills. Even in the major ski town of Ohakune, it is so small [...]
Smile! Did you know that when you smile you change your body chemistry? A smile can actually change your mood, making it a little lighter – even if the smile was forced. I’m smiling as I write this. A friend recommended to me that I try smiling at people more often. The results were amazing. [...]
Having just spent a day at NZ Fashion Week I thought I had better share some of my thoughts. Did you know you can lean too far back? No one fell over in the show I saw, but pushing your pelvis that far forward is just wrong – tipping point was coming! Not every model [...]
The best way to stop a drought is to get it to rain. The best way to find an idea and break through a writing drought is to write. Write anything – a shopping list pages of words saying ‘I have nothing to write’ pen to paper can somehow stimulate new ideas and get you [...]
Somehow no matter how well we plan our life and what we are going to do, we can get tripped up. Yesterday I was going to do my blog as usual and instead I got a migraine. Which put a stop to all activity especially computer use. Now I have lots of blogs written for [...]
How do you describe a smell, a scent that only belongs to that one thing. How can you describe a taste – doesn’t chocolate taste like chocolate? We were talking at University today about how to describe the scent of mangoes, and we decided the best way to describe a unique scent like fresh mango [...]
This weekend I have been helping BBQ sausages and burgers for volunteer workers. With cooking over a 1000 items over two days and serving them up has been really good fun. It’s great to share a common goal and encourage each other, to support them in their task. The workers are renovating a building but [...]
I have been silenced by the lack of my computer. I sent my laptop off to be repaired and forgot to write down the password to my blog! FireFox ‘remember password’ has a lot to answer for. What have been doing during my enforced silence is thinking about what I write and catching up on [...]
