This week I popped my fashion cherry at my very first runway show. I also faced-off an Anna Wintour look-a-like fashionista over a goody bag…and lost. Busy-and-important-husband scored the two VIP tickets to the Mercedes-Benz Sydney Fashion Festival because apparently he’s the kind of guy people like to impress. He was clearly off his game when he suggested I take my friend ‘to look at the pretty … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2011
Double kisses and misses
I’m not terribly skilled in the art of social graces. Well, hang on. Let me be clear. I’m definitely not a public belcher, farter or nose-picker. I also know which fork to use and that one should eat with one’s mouth closed. So I get the basics right. But it’s the art of greeting people that has me in a flap lately; especially when an unexpected double kiss left me reeling like Bambi on … [Read more...]
Porky’s revenge
Porky – that’s what they yelled at me from the school bus every afternoon when I walked home.I ducked my head when the distant cries of “Porky, Porky” would crescendo to an almighty “Oink! Oink! Oink!” the bus whooshing past me; a blur of nasty faces laughing and hissing out the window.I was supposed to be on that bus. Ironically I chose to walk the nearly four kilometers home from primary school … [Read more...]