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- November 7th, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
And the beat goes on........La de da de da..
“Where does the time go?” I said to my friend Sue. “It’s now been 32 days since I last blogged. Given it only takes 21 days to break a habit I’m scared I won’t be able to write a single se…
- October 4th, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
Here\'s a new way to stay in shape
I am not sure where this mountain top house or building is. Anyone know?It took my fancy. All I know is if I lived there I would be very thin and a recluse. There is no way I would be dragging groceri…
- September 28th, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
The Bank, a Butcher and a Dog
Thanks everyone for your comments on my last post. I appreciate your support and help and have taken all your comments on board and will keep you updated. Anyhow, it's time to get this blog back on tr…
- September 26th, 2009
- September 18th, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
Which Bank? Australia's most convenient one
I never air personal dramas on this blog but this time I really need your opinion. This has been part of a broader long running saga which some of you know a little about. It's not a funny story, sorr…
- September 5th, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
Give teachers a break
I come from a family of teachers.My mother was a teacher and my four siblings all trained as teachers although only two of my older sisters are still teaching. And as for my mother, once a teacher alw…
- September 1st, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
Dear Internet
Happy 40th Birthday!While most of us didn’t start using you until the 90s, it's amazing to think that you were really born on September 2, 1969 thanks to Len Kleinrock and his team at UCLA.So why di…
- August 24th, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
Des sees the Light
A few of my long time readers have asked how Des (my father) is doing these days.Well, he's busy. Really busy.R-E-A-D-I-N-G. L-O-O-K-I-N-G, W-A-T-C-H-I-N-G. S-E-E-I-N-GDes has been almost blind for…
- August 14th, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
Dear Boss
I am resigning.You know why I want to resign?Because since I've worked for you I don't have time to blog any more.And when I don't have time to blog any more I don't visit any other blogs.When I don't…
- August 10th, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
So Many Chemicals in the Air
And they are getting trickier and trickier to balance.Medications such as Xanax, Demerol (pethedine), OxyContin and now Diprivan are hot media topics since the recent deaths of several celebrities inc…
- August 7th, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
Afterglow
It's my favourite time of day.A very cool sunset in the last month of winter.Except from tomorrow I have to get acquainted with sunrise.I haven't laid eyes on her for years.I momentarily lost my mind…
- August 4th, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
Bill's given me an idea...
Regardless of your political views, you have to admit that Bill Clinton did some good.He's solved a thorny problem in helping to liberate the two American journalists who either strayed into North Kor…
- August 2nd, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
Giving concrete form to the intangible
Friend: Have you ever thought that it's a little strange?Me: What?Friend: Having that many journals. What is with that? Me: Well I never thought it was strange until you mentioned it....So, how strang…
- July 31st, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
Au Naturale Injections
Dear Women of a Certain AgeThe whole cosmetic surgery issue is a tricky one. On the one hand, I've told my friends to slap me and pass me a big fat can of Get Over Yourself if I ever consider getting…
- July 28th, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
Maybe there's something in the water!
G'day Erin and TaylorI have a question.What do they put in the water in London?When you left Australia ten years ago you looked like this.What the hell happened to you - now you apparently look like t…
- July 8th, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
Gone Fishing!
I am taking time out from blogging to catch up on life. See you all soon!www.lillyslife.com
- July 6th, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
Stripped Bare
The economy has been hard on everyone.Take the poor airlines. Has anyone else noticed how more and more planes seem to be 'dropping out of the sky?'Even our beloved Qantas Airlines, which is the only…
- July 4th, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
I wanna party like it's 19....
November, 1909....They were totally unaware until the visitors drove up. The fine large room recently erected for the men’s quarters during shearing time was invaded, bunks removed and soon everythi…
- July 2nd, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
Dear Mark Sanford,
I know it’s none of my business, and I know you are a politician in another country, but I spotted you today on a news site and I just had to find out why you were still looking so forlorn.Oh, I see…
- June 30th, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
Would you watch me if I took up boxing?
All you parents with little female budding sport stars had better make sure you spend just as much time on their beauty regimes as you do their sporting prowess.Why?Box office appeal is critical when…
- June 26th, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
Life's too short to.....
This week I saw the title of a book that I couldn't wait to read. Titled Life's Too F***ing Short, it detailed all the things we waste our time, energy and hard-earned cash on. Author Janet Street-Por…
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It's a good idea to always check their homework
Mommy actually works in a hardware store and sells shovels. Art is such a personal interpretation isnt it?Artist: Unknown - email forwardMommy: is just pleased she saw this before it went on display i…
- June 25th, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
Farrah and Michael
It's kind of sad to wake up today and hear about the deaths of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett.No, I didn't know them but its amazing how influentional some 'stars' can be when you are a child and…
- June 24th, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
War of Words – between the old and the new
What’s the matter Rupert, is your business feeling threatened by anonymous bloggers?It seems the rise in popularity of the humble blog is causing some issues for the print media.This month a UK High…
- June 22nd, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
The day Isaam came to live with us
I was talking to a young taxi driver last night. He told me how he and his family had been forced to leave their African country and how they had roamed from one country to another before he and his b…
- June 19th, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
Questions for you - part II
Last weekend I asked a question about a movie of your life -you can read about it here. This weekend I have a few more unusual questions. They are meant to be fun and designed to find out how differen…
- June 17th, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
It only gets better
Next month my baby sister (she is 9 years younger than me) is coming back to Australia to live after ten years in London.I was told she would be moving to London before she even knew it was a possibil…
- June 15th, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
Blogger Beware - Part II
Danielle Smith , like many of us, posts family pictures on her blog and on other networking sites like Facebook.A couple of weeks ago a college friend of hers was sightseeing in Prague (Czech Republic…
- June 13th, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
A Question for you
It all started when a group of my friends were trying to think of the most difficult question that anyone would ever have to answer. There could have possibly been copious amounts of red wine consumed…
- June 10th, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
"Guess what?"
You said when you rang this morning.Me: Silence - as ten thousand thoughts rushed through my mind about what the 'what' could be. I've had many of those sorts of conversations with you that start out…
- June 9th, 2009
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neilwillis17 to her friends list. - June 5th, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
See, Read, Do, Make, Eat & Write
I am taking next week off from blogging to focus on some other things I need to do. However, I've left a little something for each day of the week if you are looking for something to read, see, make o…
- June 3rd, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
Capri is Pants, sort of
Joanie said that it should be a post about a keepsake.In other words, an experience that causes me to remember something. And which tells something about me.I have m-a-n-y memories. However, most of t…
- June 1st, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
Hits are what it’s all about
Why do bad thing happen to good people?My daughter asked me this tough question yesterday after she found out her friend is suffering from a brain tumor. He is in his 20s with a beautiful wife and bab…
- May 30th, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
Families, the best blog fodder of all
I was reading a review of Beatrice Collins' book, the Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite which said, "its not Lilly's life that is luminous, but the people around her that shine brightly".And so it is w…
- May 29th, 2009
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lillyslife has started a new group discussion: Aussie Etsy Giveaway
- May 28th, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
I was over it
before Naomi Watts had even discovered itI was doing my facercises this morning (I so know you are going to look that up - if you are under 40, you won’t get it, so truly, don’t bother), and the p…
- May 25th, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
Lilly and Betty were drug barons
well at least for a minute or two One week ago Steve was sitting at his desk in the Australia Post International Mail Centre sorting through some of the 150 million parcels that come into the country…
- May 22nd, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
Absolutely Brilliant
Watch this and you will see why.Click on the icon next to the word Vimeo to see it in full screen.Positively the best Wedding Video idea I have EVER seen - what do you think?
- May 21st, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
Welcome to the Fifty Factor
I'm excited! For the first time ever, Lilly's Life has a 'guest blogger' (no, Des and Jordan, you aren't guests, you're family).In the last few weeks I've been avidly reading Joanna Jenkins' blog, Wel…
- May 18th, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
Take a load off your mind
but just be careful where you dump it.Interview Rule No 1: Don't mention .....I know you were nervous and that you had three strangers intently hanging on your every word on the other side of the boar…
- May 16th, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, ...
5, 4, 3, 2, 1 .......... and the winners are...Before I tell you the winners of last week's giveaways and what the new weekly giveaways are, I want to show you the 'gift' that I got in the mail. Oh ye…
- May 14th, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
Have you ever
lied about your age? I was having this debate with a few people recently as to whether it's ok to lie about your age. Some said yes, some said no and some said sometimes, i.e. to get a job or a date.T…
- May 12th, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
The Good Old Days are Coming for Everyone
Whenever I've visited my father in hospital over the last few days someone always asks, "Is that your father?"Personally, I like to take the question on notice, until I know why they are asking.Just i…
- May 10th, 2009
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Message from your Daughter
It's Mother's Day. I decided to repost last year's Mother's Day post when I only had a few people reading. Those of you who have been following me for a while know that I send my daughter messages via…
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Giveaway 1 Winner
The winner of Giveaway No. 1 is Commenter No 4 - Ugich Konitari from Gappa blog in Mumbai, India.True Random Number Generator Min:1 Max:32 Result: 4 Powered by RANDOM.ORGA big thank you to Caroline at…
- May 8th, 2009
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lillyslife has posted a new entry on: Lilly's Life
Just grin and ‘bare’ it
Bill Cosby said that “once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.” I agree, but I've always thought that there’s a time and place for everything an…
- May 7th, 2009
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lillyslife has joined the discussion: The best word in any language?
