Author Archives: Shasha

Recently, I have had the pleasure of reliving the birth of my two children,by talking to two expectant first time  mums: a friend, and an extended family member. Childbirth is a beautiful miracle. By beautiful,I mean the baby is beautiful. Pushing a baby out of a gobsmackingly stretchable opening of your body however, is far from beautiful, [...]

Well well well, what can I say? I mean seriously,this is a childrens’ book about achieving confidence and positive body image through dieting. Although the character in the book is 14 years old, the target audience for this book is 4-6 year olds. Some people may be thinking, well what is wrong with this, given [...]

The other day at work, there were leftover chocolate brownies in the office that had been saved for my colleague and I.We both unanimously decided to throw them in the bin in to resist temptation of such pure evil (they were double, dark chocolate brownies).Two hours later, heavily breathing, and checking that my colleague was [...]

He has fixed plenty of broken toys, cleaned up a few litres of vomit, changed the smelliest of diapers,stayed at homewhen they were sick, slept on the floor in their bedroom because they were scared of “the monster”,took a spontaneous day off work to spend time with them,just because he missed them, rolled around on the floor,laying the same endless, tiring [...]

I want!I need!I am in love with black and white stripes, and given that I shall soon have a red feature wall, I think these will go quite nicely to  complement and neutralise the strength and boldness of the colour red.   Here, some zebra print rugs are used in conjuction with red decor. I have contemplated using [...]

My youngest son peed on the floor today. He is toilet trained, and a bit of a neat freak (wonder where he could possibly get that from?). So there was no way he would have done it on purpose.He would have been mortified and desperate to clean it up. So why did mother of the [...]

Please note that the words *food* & *leftovers* are sometimes used to represent people. Would you like to eat someones *leftovers*, when you can get your own fresh plate of *food*? What if there is a gross trail of bite marks and saliva in the *food*? Yes, my point exactly. A relative of mine has started dating his ex [...]

Now, I’m not one to condone violence, by any means. However, you can fantasize about  suckerpunching a few women on tv, and the below images are merely a representation of what I have felt like doing, to a few women this week. Thankfully, these emotions of bewilderment and anger,have been directed towards ordinary women, online or on [...]