Heckler on Cold
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Cold-blooded kids find no joy in woolies
Heckler I'M STUMPED. It's late winter and an icy cold snap has hit town. It's snowing in the mountains and the wind chill factor has sent temperature plummeting to record lows but both my boys are trotting...
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Something fishy about Yule appeals
Heckler It's that time of year again, the merry season, when my husband has more followers than Jesus.
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Sunblock solution to global warming
Heckler WEDNESDAY'S total eclipse of the sun has got me thinking. When the sun is blocked out, the part of the Earth in the moon's shadow cools down. Stands to reason when you think about it.
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Slow slide to insensible senescence
Heckler WHEN I was a teenager, a common refrain among my friends was that it would be our worst nightmare to become like our parents.
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'Tis the season not to shop for Christmas
Heckler DEPENDING upon which particular bit of the globe you spent your childhood years you are likely to have firm associations with Christmas festivities.
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Fresh breath of life for the anti-semantic movement
Heckler I JUST want to talk off the cusp to you for a moment. The matter of the inadvertent misuse of words has recently been raised in Column 8, and I'd like to now go off on a slightly different tact.
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Doctor in the house has to be patient
Heckler I AM a mother and a doctor, so on both counts I am not supposed to get ill. Also, it is not very professional to cough more than your patients, let alone scare children by wearing a surgical mask.
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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.
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Off-the-rails hotels just don't wash with guests
Heckler I'M IN Washington, where there is a record heatwave. I'm in a hotel so wonderful I want to sell up everything and live here for the rest of my life. Well, perhaps not on a very hot July 4.
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Looking on the bright side through gritted teeth
Heckler I feel sorry for my dentist. He's a nice, quiet, thorough kind of guy and personally, I wouldn't want me as a patient.
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The pash that recalls passion
Heckler THAT youth is wasted on the young is a particularly annoying truism to those of us on the slippery slope of middle age. Bitter? Us? You bet!
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Point Percy at your peril, my dog has sharp teeth
Heckler I WAS working in the paddock and I noticed that the dog had suddenly jumped up from his normal resting place, under the gum tree, and started to stalk towards the front gate where a car had stopped.
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The market is definitely overheated
Heckler HERE in Australia, in the southern hemisphere, it is officially winter. It is therefore cold, and getting colder by the day.
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Pull the wool over my eyes
Heckler SYDNEY, you have been exposed. I mean this literally. From pillar to lamp post, everywhere I look I see the fine citizens of this harbour city hopelessly underdressed for the biting winter weather...
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Train snotting
Heckler IT'S that time of year again. Viral hackers are on the loose. No, not cyber thieves prowling through our online personal bank accounts and Facebook pages.
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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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No time for self-updating computers
Heckler I FEEL like a resident on the NSW-Queensland border during the crossover from daylight saving. I have no idea what is the right time.
