The Modern Housewife

I was watching a documentary last night on the degeneration of coral reefs in the world due to global warming (very interesting).   During the program the guy picked up rubbish out of the pristine sea and with a sad face plonked it in the boat.   It reminded me of being in Fiji.   What a beautiful Island that is, my husband was born there and on our visit we saw all sides of that wonderful country.   The most disturbing part of our trip was the resorts.   It saddened me that all these tourists who were sucking up what Fiji had to offer cared so little for the place that they just let their rubbish float out into the sea.    We used to enjoy Kayaking in this little bay at our resort.   Everyday when I took the kids out, there was always rubbish floating on the waters edge.   It was a different Fiji than I had expected to see.   Other visitors would just zoom on past all this rubbish, Kayaking out to the lovely reefs... I couldn’t...   I couldn’t just float by and ignore the chipp

It was a calm and misty afternoon when I made the decision to put the recycling out a day early, a decision that I would regret that very next morning.   After a night of extreme wind, this morning I got “the call” that made my heart sink.   My husband informed me that my extremely full to bursting recycling bin had indeed tipped over and that our recycling was now spread over the entire neighbourhood, decorating our street with milk bottles, tins and cereal boxes.   Spread so far in fact, that he suggested walking to pick it up may not be a smart idea, he said that I should probably drive and just stop and pick up the rubbish along the way.   Now, I know how much recycling I stuffed into that bin.   In fact there was over six weeks of recycling in there the potential for disaster was enormous.   In my mind I saw two tons of rubbish littered over the entire street.   Let me give you a background, we live in a lifestyle rural area which is pretty new.   When we first moved here a

We should prepare our children for the future ramifications of their online and social network behaviour!   As every action as an equal and opposite reaction.   As technology and analysis techniques get more and more advanced, so do the chances that your online comments or posts will get analysed and affect your future. You can already get fired for something you say or do online.   Imagine what the future may hold. Visualise in a few years; there will be an analytic application that will process every comment or post ever written by you online or your mouse clicking behaviour and the output will be your personality profile.     This may warn an employer not to go near you because of bulling behaviour, or tell a university you shouldn’t be in their top pick for Vet School because your pet bunny died of unusual causes when you were 7.   Or it might send a potential boyfriend running for the hills because of your internet stalking behaviour.   It could have all sorts of ramific

Wow it’s only been about seven years, but I'm back.  To be honest it’s been so long I had trouble finding this blog thingy.   Although it’s been seven years, not much has changed.  I still have many random thoughts; probably more than any normal person should have to be honest.  Apparently I have also passed that trait onto my son.  PAY BACK! I now have to listen to his many, many, many random questions and thoughts.  Some days it’s a continuous barrage of questions.   Isn’t it funny how when you have children you usually have to deal with any annoying or crazy things you did when you were younger.   May I suggest if you were a real little sh#@, probably best not to reproduce.