Patenting a new kind of stocking. Completely natural.

Keira: Mum, you’re wearing stockings today! Me: No, I’m wearing cut-off pants. Keira (rubbing her hands over my lower calves): What’s this? Me: They’re called leg hairs, darling. (That haven’t been shaved for about six weeks.) Did I mention it’s summer here? And I’m walking around like a Ent from the Lord of the Rings.

Literary hardbacks on the publishing endangered lists

I read in the papers recently (link here) that literary hardbacks are becoming endangered and may be fazed out in some point in the future. While I am a paperback girl convenience wise, I must admit there is something rather noble about a row of hardcover books upon a shelf, with their fabric bound spine and…

Oh, GOD. Will I ever stop harping on the mammaries?

Note: This post was written last night Australian time.  The other night, sitting with my laptop on my bed as I did my usual blogging ’rounds’, in the time it took to load Kerflop after I’d been to Her Bad Mother, I found a lump in my left breast. (Yes, the pesky, naughty one.) It had…