BY REGINA FEATHERSTONE
Why, hello there friends.
It’s that time of the week again. For anyone who is new, (like me!) Best and Worst is where everyone comes to tap into the good vibes of the Mamamia community. Here you can debrief, laugh, gloat and all the rest.
I’m writing this week’s Best and Worst from the comfort of my new (fancy) office chair at Mamamia HQ. I was lucky enough to be asked to join the team on a casual basis and I couldn’t be happier.
I’m not going to lie, I was pretty nervous. I was very restless last night but after a few hours here I soon realised there actually couldn’t be a nicer group of humans in one small space to help me. So, thanks everyone for being so patient with me.
My worst is the gym. The dreaded gym. I have recently returned home from traveling but have been completely reluctant to get back into exercise. Maybe it’s because I know the ratio of croissants consumed-to-days-spent-travelling was perhaps a bit too high. Or the fact that I dislocated my knee really badly on a 22km hike. (Never again!)
I don’t know why the gym becomes so scary and looms over you when you haven’t been there for a while. I mustered up the courage and went in. It. Was. Bad. From warm-up to stretch, it was bad but I’m happy I did it – even if I am walking very slowly today.
Enough about me, what’s the best and worst of your week?
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I have been reading the new weekly newspaper, The Saturday Paper (Melbourne-based) It's fantastic. I highly recommend it.
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"The Saturday Paper is a quality weekly newspaper, dedicated to narrative journalism. It offers the biggest names and best writing in news, culture, and analysis, with a particular focus on Australia."
It isn't exactly new. It has already had a cover-price rise, $3.50 up from $3.00 which must surely mean it isn't brand new! It's pricey for such a thin paper. The writing is all hard ideological left - think a love child of Margo Kingston and Peter Whish Wilson, with the ghost of Lenin rocking the cradle. There isn't enough arts & culture, and it's all a bit happenstance. Good on them for having a go in hardcopy though. I actually buy it every week even though it annoys me, for that reason, and have every copy. You save money by subscribing but I've never managed to get through their subscription system.
Its been going sine March I wouldn't say hard left with the ideology but definitely has a social justice edge. I have every edition as well. Its published by the group that publishes The Monthly. The music reviews are pretty good.
Not such a day for celebration! (read to the end!) Over my croissant and coffee, and the Sunday paper: parallel thoughts with the girls and women kidnapped by Boko Haram and ISIS, and their murdered husbands, fathers, brothers, uncles and sons. Thoughts with the Ebola victims in West Africa. Thoughts with the woman who was so kind and caring about the corpse that fell through her roof in the Ukraine. Thoughts with the family and friends of the Rozelle bombing victims. (And thoughts with the people of Australia on the first anniversary of the Abbott Government ...)