Step right up, it’s Open Post time where absolutely everything is on the table for discussion. It’s like improv class, just see where the moment takes you. Ask a question, flick through the fairly awesome behind the scenes gallery, laugh at some odds and ends or add your own comment in the very Mamamia choose your own adventure. But first, some interesting things this week:
Look ma, I was on television!
Odd socks, a hole in one shoe and I forgot to do my hair. That’s how I do television, which will definitely not surprise anyone who knows me well. I have a terrible habit of not standing on ceremony. Sometimes I even go so far the other way I don’t even stand near it. As a former newspaper journo, my dress sense is usually ‘shabby’ at best.
The show: Mornings on Channel Nine. The mission? To talk on a man panel, the Boy’s Club.
Hold your laughter. I need you to because my friends didn’t. Look, I might not be your regular blokey-bloke but I have manpinions (the plural, my friend Angela told me is ‘menpinion’) and here I am, finally being asked to share them. An injustice in the world has been set right.
The fairly spectacular co-host David Campbell actually set the ball in motion and I went in for a kind of screen-test a little over a month ago to sit on the set and try and say witty, intelligent things which is almost physically impossible when you’re frozen in terror like a big ice block that is terrified.
And then I went on TV and you can see it here but only if you promise not to be mean which will be hard after you see my performance:
Regulating female bodies? Your turn guys.
This is several shades of awesome. Over in yonder America (where talk about contraception and women’s reproductive health is more popular than the tanking economy and the war in Afghanistan), one lawmaker is a bit over it. Why the obsession with ovaries and the uterus? So Ohio State Senator Nina Turner decided to turn the tables by introducing a bill that would require:
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I know there will be another open post in just a couple of days but I would really like some ideas on this and thought I'd post in here (really I'm just being Miss Impatient Pants). Please forgive me! :-)
How much money would you give a child to spend at the Show? I am looking at this as one of those important 'teaching moments' opportunities that we get as parents every now and then and would like to give my kids a set amount and then once that is gone there will be no more. The idea is that they will have to work out what to spend their money on carefully, recognising that they won't have endless funds. The problem is I am having trouble working out my limit!
The (young, school-aged) kids won't be expected to buy food or drink for themselves - the money is purely for rides/ showbags. We will probably be there for around 2 hours or so. How much do they need? I'm thinking $25 but have no idea if that is too much or too little (or hopefully just right!). Any suggestions?
I'm single and looking to move from Melbourne to either the Sunshine Coast or Cairns mid year...Depending upon what Uni i get into. What are the good, affordable areas to live in? Is there much of a social/night life scene on the Sunshine Coast? Would i need a car for either location? I'm thinking i might be able to get away without one in Cairns...
Thanks - R
Hi Renee - you will need a car in Cairns. I'm from up that way originally and the public transport up there is very average.
The nicest area to live in Cairns is in Edge Hill, in my opinion. It is lovely with lots of Queenslanders and the "Edge" cluster of shops and cafes is very cute.
I'm originally from Cairns too and age with whipper- you'll almost definitely need a car the public transport isn't very, er, commuter friendly. There just isn't the culture of using public transport like their is in big cities- people really tend to look down on it.
Edge Hill is nice a nice suburb and close to town, but Redlynch, Freshwater and the northern beaches are all nice too IMO- and slightly closer to JCU too. And compared to Melbourne, the rent all over town will probably seem cheap! I'm in Bris and jealous of my friends cheap rental prices in nice houses right near the beach.