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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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21 Up South Africa
I was watching the South African version of 21 UP on SBS tonight. Three of the original 11 children have died, two of AIDS. At first I guess I wasn’t too surprised. But then I thought how amazing it was that none of the original kids in the UK ...
Birth of an elephant is risky business
Go and watch this video – it is quite amazing. Film of Elephant Birth That’s all I have for you today. Share and Enjoy: RSS Facebook Twitter Digg StumbleUpon Technorati Google Bookmarks ...
New habits are hard to make
About a month ago Property at work changed the swipe point to gain access to the building. It used to be right next to the door, now you have to stop about 3 metres before the door and swipe your ID card. But old habits are hard to break. Every day ...
Stupid sign
I first saw this sign at North Cottesloe. I thought then it was a stupid sign. What are they trying to warn against? Diving? Shallow water? Why not just say that?? To just say “water” seems a bit obvious. Hello… it is the Indian O...
A lavender lunch
I sat opposite this lavender the other day, eating my Vietnamese spring rolls. I was sharing the park bench with another woman who told me her life story. She came from Sydney, about a year ago. Her husband, a landscape gardener, had got a job and, a...
Nesting with class
I went out to lunch today with a couple I don’t know that well but am getting to know better. He is a great networker! Anyway on the way back to work I spied this bird who has made a nest in the middle of the artificial lake on top of a sculp...
Tasmanian bark
On my first day with my new camera I was walking past some trees in Fielder St, East Perth. The bark looked like the perfect subject to test the macro features out. So interesting… Kind of geographical… like a map… Somewhere dow...
Red or Blue
Remember this scene from The Matrix? Take the blue pill and you stay asleep… take the red and wake up to reality? Why did they choose those colours? Why blue and red? It might be based in science. I was listening to some back-episodes of my ne...
Do stop – I have had enough
I am over Michael Jackson. No, I am. I can’t tell you how many emails I get advising me of this special or that special, how many times I’ve turned on the telly to be bombarded with yet another memorial concert. Is it just me? Or ar...
The bad news about mandarins
I learned something this weekend. Mandarins – those lovely packets of orangy goodness… … make me fart. Sad but true....
Poorly Pylon
The first winter storm was the last straw for the Cottesloe Pylon which sank into its rotton core, losing its metal tip in the briny. The council are going to spend an extraordinary amount of money to put a single seagull’s perch together but i...
Wake up call
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrring! No, not that kind of wake up call but while we’re on the subject – how do you wake up each day? On my old phone – a Nokia n80 – there was a ring tone called “Amaze” and it w...
There’s always one isn’t there…
I don’t know whether you can read that sign but one of those little warning messages says NO SWIMMING. Note person swimming. What a rebel… I bet he doesn’t even call police officers “sir”!...
Sign Fail
I’m so glad they warned me about the water… I wasn’t expecting any at the edge of the Indian Ocean. Surely there should at least be a fin?...
Exposed as a bad parent
It was a VERY close call. Last night, I came in from bridge and immediately got ready for dinner at a friends house (a superb roast pork). I jumped into the shower, then realised, getting dressed, that all my clean underwear was in the family room...
First winter storm in Perth
This is the view from my office window at about 12.15pm when the storm front came through. An hour later it is still. Is that it?...
A literal rant
Is it just me or am I the only one who is noticing how often the word ‘literally’ is used? “I was literally going to the shops…” “That is literally the best movie I’ve ever seen!” It is the new ‘...
The George and the camera affair
You know, usually, when you leave something in a taxi, you get that sick dread feeling that you’ll never see it again. That’s how I felt when I realised getting ready tonight that I didn’t have my camera. I’d even done a curso...
The best business card
Do you want my business? This guy does: Yes. The pun is cute and I admit I’m a sucker for puns, but what really got me was the reason for the P.T.O.* Now wouldn’t you call him? I feel good thinking about how good he feels about what h...
Taking things personally
When do you get upset with technology? I’ve discovered that I’m quick to move to tears when it gets personal. No, I’m not talking about that pink plastic machine that lives in handy reach under my bed, the one once described as R...
Careless in Red by Elizabeth George
Here’s the massive coincidence. The last two books I’ve read have been The Islands by Di Morrissey and Careless in Red by Elizabeth George. (I know I’m supposed to have been reading The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga - the Booker Priz...
If you’re going to fight… clash!
This is an Australian Federal Police car. I don’t see them very often. For some reason whenever I do, this quote from Robin Williams in Vietnam springs to mind: We’ve got a special man in the audience today right now. It’s Mr. ...
Someone forgot to tell the sun
The Sundial at Cottesloe doesn’t believe in daylight saving. Meantime I learned a great new term which I will use with abandon from now on to describe vegetarians who eat fish - I read it in The Big Issue - Looney’s column. A vegaquarian....
White elephants and minstrels
Today I found it really difficult to get up. I don’t think it was the late night - it wasn’t that late. I went to see Rachel Berger at the Regal Theatre - which was fun because she got the entire audience to come up on stage - publici...
Maths problem - do two negatives really equal a positive?
If two emos have a baby - is their baby happy?...
Of all the wanky signs…
Seen at my local bank today. I suppose they are trying to be cute....
The toilet paper experiment
If there’s one thing that annoys me is racing into a stall to go to the loo and finding - after you’ve started - that there is no toilet paper! Arghh. I noticed that it happened quite often in my stall of choice at work while other stal...
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...
