Madame Menopause

Fifty is the new 50!

2013-09-30T21:20:00.000+10:00

And so this is 50. And what have you done? Is half your life over? Or has it just begun? (with apologies to John Lennon) That was then This Saturday, 5 October 2013, I will turn 50. I've been practising saying it for almost a year now. Fifty. Fiff-tee. The Big Five-Oh. The ol' half century. Fiddy. Nothing sounds right. It's not a number I can relate to myself

11 May 1996 (or why I only had one child)

2013-05-11T11:42:00.000+10:00

For many, many years I never wanted children. I didn't play mummies and babies as a child and it was never my ambition to 'get married and have babies'. I didn't hate kids, I simply wasn't interested. As it turned out, I did get married. My husband already had an 11-year-old son from his first marriage and didn't want any more. Fine by me. For four or so years this

And to think I thought it was Tony Abbott & Andrew Bolt!

2013-05-04T10:59:00.003+10:00

I thought I was just getting madder than usual at the state of politics and media in Australia. The unchallenged lies, no policies, and running away from interviews of that great buffoon, Tony Abbott, enabled and encouraged by our media, with the strings of The Puppet Master, Rupert Murdoch jerking more enthusasiastically than a 16-year-old boy. Thought my heart was racing due to outrage

Someone else is writing about menopause in Australia!

2013-03-24T12:20:00.000+11:00

My Twitter friend, the rather marvellous Robyn Oyeniyi, author of the blog Team Oyeniyi and e-book "Love vs. Goliath", has kindly given me permission to link to her recent excellent post on menopause and HRT. Thanks Robyn, I already feel much better knowing that 80,000 of us are due for Club Menopause membership each year. I was almost admitted recently (I probably violated the dress

The Accidental Relationship

2013-03-22T09:28:00.000+11:00

An Open Love Letter to My Partner on our 10th Anniversary I'll never forget the first time I saw you in that pub. It was 23 March 2003. Having chatted back and forth via email and MSN (remember that?) for a few months and forming a tentative friendship, it was so exciting to learn we actually lived quite close to each other! Remember that you bailed out twice then made a sudden "

Hot Flash Havoc

2013-03-02T16:57:00.003+11:00

Never say I don't look after my readers. All three of you. Look what I found via Twitter - someone has made a doco about menopause! The trailer looks pretty good - take a look here: http://www.hotflashhavoc.net/ I'd love to see something similar done by Australian women. What do you think? I reckon it's about time.

Goddamit! Now I have to start again

2013-02-12T17:25:00.000+11:00

If you have been following this blog (and quite frankly, why wouldn't you?), you would know that I last had a period in around April of 2012. I have been getting quite excited (and by excited I mean vaguely depressed) at the approaching 12 month point which would apparently mark the moment I truly entered The Big M. Supposedly going 12 months without a period is the milestone you need to

In which I get my ranty pants on

2013-01-23T17:49:00.000+11:00