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Redsultana is the personal blog of a working mum in Perth. Cellobella works in the mainstream media but amazingly has a life outside of it which she shares on her blog.
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Discomfort books
Jennifer Byrne from the First Tuesday Book Club on ABC1 says her comfort book is Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk. She read it when she was a teenager and it resonated. It’s the story of a Jewish teenager in the 1930s, living in New York...
Shocked that I care
I was in two office sweeps this year at a total outlay of $7. I feel I got away lightly. I was a bit bah humbug about the cup today. It felt like an interruption. I resented the distraction. Of course I tried to contact someone in Melbourne for wo...
It’s my birthday
Sigh. Why is it that birthdays are less exciting the older you get? Groover was sweet. He knew I wanted to take choc chip cookies to work rather than a cake and so he made some for me. Unfortunately they didn’t work out so well – dud r...
A perfect life
What would you do next if you were at the top of your game in a Melbourne restaurant? Open another restaurant? Get even more busy? Well the fellow who runs this place got it right I reckon. He has a restaurant in Albany which he opens when he feels ...
Three score years and ten
We were down in Dunsborough for mum’s 70th birthday celebration. She had invited her family to Caves House for a breakfast. The photos in the room were of Caves House in the year of her birth – 1939. This is the youngest member of the fa...
Senescence
I was over at Mum and Dad’s today raking leaves. They are away and we want to make the house look lived in. It was another beautiful autumn day. The sun glistening through the leaves, and onto the leaves that had fallen. The many, many le...
Just saying yes at the moment
This is a photo of Groover at the top of the overbridge that we walk on during our weekend’s walk. He nearly always beats me to the top. These days I find it hard to find the time to exercise. Yes I know it’s an excuse. Yes I know that ...
My Mum’s racy past
This is my mum and my daughter in 2005. We were in Italy, in Venice in fact. I thought I wouldn’t like Venice. I thought it would be too much of a cliche, too geared for tourism. It was. I didn’t care. I loved it. The other week I...
I don’t want to hear your excuses
Do you like to hear a long list of reasons why someone has said no? I hate it. I don't want to hear your excuses....
No going back
How did I look after my two kids when they were little? Yesterday, we picked up the younger cousins (4 & 3) for a sleepover. My sister-in-law needed some free time to pack as they are moving house soon. The big cousins are fantastic with them....
We are all in the gutter
A guest post from Groover: It was Oscar Wilde who penned the line, “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars”. It’s a favourite of mine, along with many other Wilde quotes, but to me it perfectly describes t...
Cheery Christmas
Yesterday Santa came to work to wish me a merry Christmas. I had been a VERY good girl indeed and was given a bottle of Amberley Shiraz. I felt like drinking it straight-away but that isn’t the behaviour of a very good girl is it? *warning̷...
What retirement could be
I took this photo on our normal Saturday morning Cottesloe walk which is fast becoming a tradition for Groover and me. Could this couple be us in 40 years time? It’s kind of a scary and sweet thought mixed together…...
Not acting anymore
Isn’t it interesting that when you let go of something, the something happens! I’ve been appointed to the job I’ve been doing for the last year (after acting for two years in a similar position the years before). My boss wrote a lo...
Stopping to smell the flowers
Not that south west orchids smell - well not that I know of - but it occured to me today that I haven’t seen even one orchid in the wild this year. In fact at all. And I love these little treasures of the bush. It makes me feel good to find the...
Graffitti illusions
So my morning walks take me past this piece of art on the North Cottesloe foreshore… And every time I do I think “Grrrr, some little toerag has spray painted that artwork!” … But they haven’t. I wonder if the artist in...
Appreciating the unappreciated
Just a quick note to point you towards Chuck Westerbrook’s blog where he is conducting a blogging experiment to highlight and throw some loving towards blogs with great content but perhaps low readership. I’m intrigued to see who he choos...
Broome-time reunion
I’m in Broome today for work - I know, what a bitch of a job eh? - anyway I’m strolling through Chinatown trying to find a sandwich at 3pm - not easy - I almost had to go to Subway - when I spot a girl I knew at school. She reminded me th...
Flashback to the Polly Pipe opening
Growing up with an civil engineer for a dad meant that we went to a lot of openings of big infrastructure projects. This is me and my brother at the opening of the Stirling Bridge in Fremantle. There is a better photo somewhere but I can’t fin...
Stop. Think. Compliment
Today someone took the time to tell me what a good job I was doing. And that person is someone I manage. I felt really good. No. REALLY good. The lesson was learned. It’s not enough to give positive feedback down the chain - it’s impo...
What’s on your Saturday to-do list?
Here’s mine: Get up and join group for Jacob’s Ladder experience - do JL 4 times and run up and down Mount St Hill twice. Completed. Stand in pool for 20 minutes to help my aching legs (apparently it’s what you do). Done. Eat b...
How embarrassment!
This my lime tree - in flower again while on some branches ripe fruit hangs. I think it’s confused. It really has nothing to do with this post except to say if you sucked on a wedge of lime your face might resemble the look on the person’...
Leaving home
The ceiling was high, the walls white, the furniture dark and shabby. There was a leadlight window looking over a green courtyard. A single bed. A wastepaper basket. Outside, playful shouts echoed off the high red brick walls. Joy as friends caug...
Taking rainbows for granted
Guest post from Groover There is an old proverb which says “The best place to hide a leaf is in a forest”. In other words, a nice way to say: “sometimes we fail to notice the things that are right under our nose”. I met a ne...
What do you really want to do?
Okay okay I’m at a conference with my colleagues and okay okay it is true that at a conference you are likely to drink slightly more than you would otherwise. Am I not correct? You know I am correct. Well tonight after retiring to a attendee&#...
