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Happy Easter!

Maureen — Fri, 08 May 2020 05:03:40 +0000

One of the few good things about this lockdown has been long ambles through our local area, discovering paths and items and bridges and areas we’d never known existed before! One walk we even found a bee keeping society complete with bees!

Anyway, Tim and I went for a walk through our neighbourhood on the Easter long weekend and barely hidden in some long grass, what did we find but a very rained upon, dirty and stiff bear, with a Happy Easter sign stapled to its paws. Now that’s what I call inspiration for a horror short story!

Maureen’s 50 in 50 list: Dye my hair a crazy colour/s

Maureen — Sun, 24 Jun 2018 10:59:23 +0000

Me and my hair have a special relationship. As a child my mother made sure I valued my long, thick, wavy, almost black locks. I hated the idea of cutting it or of bleaching it for some colour. Even through university (that time of hair colour experimentation) I didn’t like to do more than trim the edges and I never, ever went beyond eight-wash hair dye.

Finally, I decided my hair could take it. I went red for awhile (a look I really loved), but it wasn’t exactly wild enough to justify checking off my 50 in 50 list.

So a few years back, alongside the start of the mermaid hair trend, I went half blue. I loved it so, but it was hella difficult for me to maintain with how dark my hair grows back. I ended up spending too much money on hairdressers to justify the cost. Still, it did mean I can tick dying my hair a crazy colour off this list.

Red hair on the other hand… watch this space!

Maureen’s 50 in 50 list: Re-live ‘If Life Were a Musical’ with a flash mob!

Maureen — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 08:35:39 +0000

I used to love the Chaser’s War on Everything’s ‘If Life Were a Musical’ segment. I love it when people break into song and dance in a film (My Best Friend’s Wedding style). I wish Keira Knightley’s wedding musical sequence from Love Actually could happen at every wedding. That’s how much I like musical moments and wish they would happen in real life.

Quite separately, I also have grown to quite like Kate Bush. Running Up That Hill is probably on my top 25 song list. So when I found out there was a Wuthering Heights Day annually, and one happening in Sydney HOLY HECK I WAS SO THERE WITH BELLS ON. Kate Bush flash mob? Yes please.

So last year, my friend, Marsha, my partner Tim and I got in on the action and dressed up full blown Kate Bush Wuthering Heights style and wuthered our way to happiness. So much so I can’t wait to do it again!

Me, Tim and Marsha

Tim and I joyous after our wuther

On our way to the wuther, we had to switch train lines. Undaunted, we soon found fellow wutherers who know the dance much better than us and proceeded to teach it to us on the increasingly more crowded platform.

The crowd slowly forms for the wuther

At the actual event, people stood in front of our growing Kate Bush look-a-like flash mob to teach us the moves before we did the real thing. The hordes of people stumbling around, spinning around and nervously kicking out of time, was hilarious. After the wuther, there was a special choir performance, and then we went to a bar and played Kate Bush songs on the juke box. At one point, everyone wuthered through the bar.

What a flash mob we were! I can’t wait to do it all over again!!!