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*LittleSquib bawling her eyes out in the bathroom*
LittleSquib: I’ve lost it and now I’ll never see it again!!
[I inspect the bath drain and can just see the little purple Barbie shoe]
Me: It’s OK, Mama will fix it. I’ll just get some tweezers and pull it out
*LittleSquib still crying and saying how purple is her favourite […]

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Oh Melbourne, it’s so artsy and so groovy and the people are so friendly and so different to the people in Perth in a really good way and people read books really they read books and they have ruffles of zombies walking the streets with fake blood and suchlike and they have lovely cake shops […]

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I made these fabric button hairbands during the school holidays. My favourite is the deer one

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I got this because I enjoyed The Road, also by Cormac McCarthy. I must say I’m not a Cowboy and Western kind of gal and the people in this book really do say things like ‘hell, fire, and damnation’, ‘I aint never’, ‘bud’, and ‘I done been’. But wouldn’t ya’ll know it, by the end […]

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Sing a Song for Us Tonight is a segment where people choose a song that is special to them and explain why. Today’s guest is Mad Cat Lady. She’s chosen Augie March and their stunning song One Crowded Hour. Thanks MCL - here is her story
I heard One Crowded Hour by Augie March for the […]

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The electronic game of Pong is usually associated with the seventies but I got a Pong console, the smaller eighties version, for about my eighth birthday. It was terribly exciting

I also had one of these annoying things, Simon Says, where you have to remember the various patterns of musical notes and coloured lights. It gets […]

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I was intrigued by the Gumball Poetry Movement in the US which dispenses poems through gumball machines, instead of gumballs
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if they expanded on this concept? What if they replaced everything in vending machines with poems? And they didn’t tell people? And people put their coins in and went to reach for […]

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The label on a bottle of Spanish red we had last night:
‘For more than a century, Coronas has overcome all adversity like an incident in 1939 when a deflected bomb exploded in our winery’s main vat causing its complete destruction. However, Coronas has always been and continues to be a silent witness to history.’

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