The things I know….

I know that….

- champagne corks can fix holes in walls where old pipes used to be
- that the old plumbing that was ripped out from my bathroom – ker-ching – reminded me that the old apricot paint underneath was just pukeable in a bathroom
- that 4 litres of paint is cheaper to buy than 2 litres so why not paint the kitchen in the same colour as well?
- that you can never go wrong with silver fish shaped cupboard handles as they are going to look wrong anywhere you put them so why worry?
- that I seem to have the world’s supply of spider webs in my backyard at the moment
- that green ant bites sting and keep stinging way after your attacker has died
- that 90% humidity while mowing the lawn makes you sweat like a pig but you don’t see the benefit in weight loss

- that racing to finish mowing before the daily summer storm hits is madness yet I still do it

- the BOM site radar – click here– is always right so batten down the hatches

- that to finish and send off the book I had to add 6k to is better than to leave it sit there due to procrastination – ‘did that today

- that no matter how much people would ‘like you to change’ they don’t actually believe ‘they’ have to.

- that mango/macadamia ice cream is divine

- the regardless what others believe, the macadamia is native to Australia and imported elsewhere

- that Australia is the best country on the planet

- that the woman in my office who wears a Christmas bell the bangs against her boob, ringing incessantly all bloody day, reallllly needs to stop wearing it

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The Penned Again contest closes tomorrow midnight. What contest? Scroll down and enter. Yes, I have had a bucket load of entries but that’s not to say you cannot win - so enter. It’s a random pick…I am extremely random.

BTW - did you notice I had the word ‘fuck’ in my Penned Again blurb? No? Scroll down again and look. Two people remarked on this. No, I have not lost my mind…well not completely. No, I don’t think the word is going to ‘taint’ romance writing because – hello - that word is used a lot. Fuck is a part of the language whether you like it or not or you use it or not. I go with the times. I don’t resist them. When I was a kid saying ‘bum’ was terrible. I got in trouble a few times – one notable occasion I scratched out the ‘a’ on Frank L Baum’s name on The Wizard of OZ book we had at home…shocking…

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