I’ve loved this week because it’s the first one in a month or two where I haven’t been travelling. I’ve felt more balanced, had more time with my family and more time with the office. Everyone wins.

Welcome

Our new writer, Lucinda Ormonde started yesterday and I have no doubt that at some stage soon she will stop looking terrified. There really is a lot to take in about how Mamamia works. A bit like putting a firehose into your mouth and turning it on.

We’re really looking forward to her being here and contributing even more to the site.

I crashed a meeting and made Lucy pose for this photo.

The fashion moment

A few weeks ago I mentioned I wasn’t sure about the coloured denim thing. May I just say that I have now most definitely decided. Coloured denim is rocking our world at the moment. Here is Lana in her new Sportsgirl “Abbie” pink jeans. I have the same pair in aqua and a different style in coral. I also own purple Sass & Bide jeans which I live in. And some bright (almost fluro) orange Sass & Bide cords.

I’m finding it a great way to bridge from winter black blahs to Spring before it gets too hot and you don’t want to be wearing jeans anymore. Have you gone there yet?

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The Gadget

I first saw this at my hairdresser and I immediately jumped online to buy one for my ipad.

It’s a wireless bluetooth keyboard for your ipad that also doubles as a case and a stand. You can put your ipad in it vertically or horizontally and it’s changed the whole way I use my ipad (in that I use it much more now and for many more things – like writing as well as browsing). I’m constantly asked about it whenever I use it in public.

Even when I went into the Apple store with it one time, all the blue people gathered around me in wonderment, oooh-ing and aaaaahh-ing. This was possibly the geek highlight of my life. Telling the clever blue people something about technology that they didn’t yet know.

The cost US$99 plus shipping which is about another $30. Clever.

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The show

On the show this week is Mark Dapin, Sam De Brito, Sue Cato and Paula Joye.

From left to right: Sam de Brito, Mark Dapin, Sue Cato, Paula Joye

We’ll also be featuring interviews with Muslim feminist and academic Susan Carland and Krystal Barter from Pink Hope – check back on Friday for full interviews and lots more information.

New York Fashion Week

Here’s a bit of fluff if you like looking at pictures of fashionable people wearing fashionable things at fashion shows. High on the perve scale.

Amanda Seyfried

Beyonce

Victoria Beckham

Victoria Beckham

Lindsay Lohan

Gwyneth Paltrow

Christina Ricci

Beyonce with sister Solange

Heidi Klum

Kelly Osbourne

Lala Vasquez and Kim Kardashian

Lindsay Lohan

Mandy Moore

Nicki Minaj

Nicki Minaj

Nicky Hilton

Rachel Zoe

Peaches Geldof

Rachel Zoe and Rodger Berman