Smaggle

Okay I’m about to get totally nerd Smags on you here. I enjoy mathematics. There. I said it. In fact I once got 100% on my advanced maths statistics test when I was in college. My college maths teacher, who actually reads Smaggle (Hi Mrs Clark!) will vouch for me. Anyway, you may remember a few weeks ago that I held a reader survey asking you guys a few things about you, just so I could learn more about what Read the rest!

On Sunday night I headed to my friend’s house with a nice bottle of red wine tucked under my arm. I planned to enjoy a drop or two during a read through of the play we’ve just started rehearsing. After polishing off our third tetra pak of red (yes… TETRA PAK!) we were screaming at each other about whether or not everyone is a Rolling Stones OR a Beatles fan or whether you can really be equal fan Read the rest!

Mama Smaggle is the fussiest woman on the planet. For her birthday one year, my father let me loose in The Body Shop to make a gift pack for her. Being seven years old I pretty much picked anything that was purple, including an awesome sponge shaped like a bunch of grapes. I’ll admit it wasn’t the most appropriate choice for a 40-year-old, a fact I’ve been reminded of yearly since The unfortunate Read the rest!

Sometimes life just hands you some cool shit and you can’t quite believe that it happened. I’ve just spent the last four days in the Whitsundays with the other Remarkables for a work conference. It means that I ate food, drank wine, got ferried around to tropical paradise after tropical paradise and somehow managed to call it work. Here’s a few happy snaps from the trip. Whitehaven Beach or as Read the rest!

Image Dear Aunties, It was around Christmas in 2010 when I’d come back to my hometown to visit my family. I was lying on my stomach on my parent’s couch reading a magazine. My brother and my mother were also sitting on the couch. There was a weird silence in the air and my mother said ‘So are you going to tell your sister?‘. My brother replied ‘I’d rather not‘. He then rev Read the rest!

Good morning lovely ones! Just a quick heads up to let you know that I’ve put together TWO MORE PRIZE PACKS for the lucky filler-outer-ers of my Smaggle Reader Survey. I already published the survey last week in this post but if you’re yet to participate I thought some delicious L’Oreal goodies might entice you. If you have already filled out the survey PLEASE DO NOT DO IT AGAIN!!! It will only Read the rest!

You may remember a few months ago I wrote an article about my father lost his farts. It was a traumatic time for the entire family. Rest assured he’s totally back in action now. He managed to irrevocably burn the inside of my nostrils with a particularly heinous post-liquorice fart last week. We’re all very happy that he has made it through this troublesome time. You may also remember that I asked my re Read the rest!

Airplanes Every single time I’m on a plane, I just cannot believe what a scientific break through they are. THEY FLY!!! In the air… air borne. Tonnes and tonnes of metal, snacks, drinks and people. FLYING. It’s just extraodinary. It’s been happening for almost 100 years but somehow it’s still just too modern for me. Airplanes. You are AWESOME! Image Nature Trees. How cool are trees? T Read the rest!

Have a hot chocolate instead of your usual afternoon latte? Two marshmallows? One pink, one white? Wear a leopard print scarf? Looped through your denim jeans as a belt? Wrapped around your head in a turban? Tied to your leather shoulder bag? Have an artistic friend ink a beautiful design on your skin for a special occasion? A silver feather just below your shoulder? Worn with a backless dress? Go horse riding? Go Read the rest!

Have you ever flippantly made a promise that you’d bring a fancy dessert to a dinner party and then completely forgot all about it? Then you find yourself with half an hour before the party and you’re trying to figure out if you can smoosh a frozen apple pie into a glass dish and pretend you made it? I’ve made this casual promise twice in the last two weeks and I’ve been twice saved by this Read the rest!