Is Christmas about Love or Money?

December 13, 2010

They call this time of year the “silly season”.  When you look at all the madness going around the shopping centres, on TV and everywhere else, it’s not hard to see why.  This is the season when the hype outweighs the voice of reason, and we’re all hypnotised into believing that we have to turn [...]

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3 day Juice Cleanse Review

November 22, 2010

If you haven’t read my preparatory ‘Juice Feasting Here I Come…’ post, please click here to read it first.  Or you can skip straight to the summary. Day 1 The juices were due to be delivered by courier sometime in the morning, and they’d explained to me it could be anytime up to 10.30, so [...]

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Juice Feasting here I come…

November 4, 2010

It’s not a 30 day trial just yet, but as I move more and more into raw food, I’ve been remembering what it was like when I was in a share household (back at University of course) and we got into fasting. It’s been a lot of years since then, but I still remember how [...]

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Spring and a New Beginning

October 23, 2010

Image by justOneMoreBook via Flickr Spring is supposed to be warm sunny days, light fresh breezes and lots of people at the beach, right? Especially down here in Australia. Nuh uh. The emergency services came out last weekend to patch up part of the roof that had been blown in (they were amazing – it’s [...]

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Pulling a 50 ton Hercules Plane

September 5, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Yesterday was the inaugural Law-Enforcement Torch Relay Charity Plane Pull.  Teams of 20 signed up to pull a 50 ton Hercules (J class) plane 10m along an air force runway, competing for the fastest time.  For some strange and probably unknowable reason, I was signed up as one of them. I discovered [...]

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Smile. It’s infectious.

August 25, 2010

Image by gagilas via Flickr As winter rolls on down here, and bugs, viruses etc keep spreading their own form of joy, it occurs to me that it might be interesting to spread a little ‘counter-virus’ of my own. Smile, and try to make it infectious. You know how hearing a kid laugh is just [...]

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11 Weeks on Raw Food – week 2

July 25, 2010

This last week has seen way more movement on the Raw Food front than the 100 day reality challenge, so this weekend’s summary is focusing on that.  To start with, in 2 weeks I’ve lost just over 2kg.  That’s nearly 5lb for those of you in non-metric.  Ironically, this week I rebounded up to higher [...]

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