Heckler on Wine
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Seeing red over use of intoxicating wine studies
Heckler Hardly a day goes by without the media enlightening us with some ground-breaking new research to guide us along the rocky road of life.
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Let the snobs simmer over slow food
Heckler I USED to think that slow food referred to food that was actually slow. Like snails, or weary cows. No longer! I have recently become aware of the slow food movement and the immense importance...
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Logging off the horror of online dating
Heckler BEING single and at times lonely for some male company, I made the mistake of joining a couple of online dating sites. I now call them ''non-dating sites'' because of recent experiences.
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Converted to pushing the party line
Heckler I COULDN'T think of an excuse quickly enough when the call came. ''I know you don't like them,'' my friend pleaded. ''But you don't have to buy anything.
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Why is the word 'no' so difficult to understand?
Heckler WHAT part of ''I am deliberately avoiding eye contact'' do you choose not to understand?
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50 shades of excuses to avoid reading
Heckler THE inaugural Bad Mothers Book Club was held last week, the first selected text being Fifty Shades of Grey.
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Medicinal cons are hard to swallow
Heckler I LOVE drugs. Adore them. Best thing since sliced bread. Headache? Sweet, sweet codeine. Runny nose? Sneezing? Antihistamine and pseudo-ephedrine.
Please watch for Monty Python and flying circus
Heckler I FLY a lot. After all these years I still like it, despite the just-plain-rude Sydney airport charges. I try to just go with the flow.
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Bad mother, sad hair and sorry about the dinner
Heckler BREAKFAST: Arrive home from brisk morning walk feeling very thirsty. Make note to self that tonight will be alcohol free. Open fridge to find empty bottle of orange juice. Go for cereal option.
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Right spirit but spare the paper bags
Heckler DROPPING into the bottle shop of a local pub, I bought a bottle of wine. I paid and the young man serving reached for a paper bag in which to place my purchase.
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Wrong diagnosis was gout of the blue
The Heckler I WAS recently diagnosed with gout. The foot felt sore on Christmas Eve. It wasn't better by December 29 so off I hobbled to the medical centre. The doctor took one look at my foot.
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Coming to terms with a new year
The Heckler THIS is a special bulletin to all bad mothers to fill them in on the details of the annual back to school meeting which took place this week.
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Come on bra makers, give us a lift
Heckler BECAUSE of my Catholic boarding school upbringing, I was too embarrassed to take myself and my ''big boobs'' into an underwear department to be fitted with comfortable bras.
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Abstaining throws up tricky issues
Heckler THE Great Vomit of Y2K was the last time I ever drank champagne or wine. I threw up so violently I lost a contact lens.
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Welcome to town? Just the reverse
Heckler HERE we go again. We've just survived the influx of capital-T Tourists during the spring school holidays and the wine festival. And now the summer holidays are imminent.
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Reality bites when your teeth turn 45
Heckler I HAVE now discovered there is a reason that surveys divide the population into 35-44 (now, in my mind, gay young things with all their teeth) and 45-and-over, where we are talking a completely...
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For sick kids' sake, light up another one
Heckler I WAS planning to give up smoking, but realise that now is not the time. The country needs us to step up.
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Those kilos that kill conversation
Heckler ARE people on diets the most boring people in the world?
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It's not right to be left out
Heckler Today at the supermarket the polite, smiling, efficient cashier who expertly packed my green bags still did something to tip me over the edge.
