The First Sunday/Wednesday Club
First Wednesday Club: Birthing Kit Foundation Australia
I didn’t have a birth plan when I was pregnant with my daughter Ava. Nope. I had a vision. Within hours of giving birth I pictured myself in…
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First Wednesday Club for April 2011: If you cannot read and write then you are always afraid
It’s time for the First Wednesday Club again. This month we’re lending our support to the Indigenous Literacy Project which is about giving the gift of reading to…
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First Wednesday Club for March 2011: Help Maria Buy A Barn
In March, the First Sunday Club was offered a brand new home at one of Australia’s most popular websites www.Mamamia.com.au We also changed our name to the First…
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Sunday Mail Column for Sunday 6 March 2011: the Ultimate Girly High Tea
The Way We Live For Sunday 6 March 2011 I have never met a lemon curd tart I didn’t like. Which is good news because they’re on the…
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First Sunday Club for February 2011: Dress For Success
Cue the smoke machine and the wind chimes sound effect; we’re about to go back in time. Back to 1995. Toy Story was the movie everyone was talking…
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The Way We Live – Good intentions and keeping your shirt on ….
This is my favourite week of the year. The year ahead is at its most shiny, its most fresh. Right now 2011 is perfect and ripe with possibility…
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The Way We Live, Sunday 26 December 2010: Triumphs and Trials
There’s still five days to go but I’m guessing you’ve already called it. The votes are in. The tally’s been done. You’ve summed up 2010 in your head…
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First Sunday Club: Project Love and Care
Christmas 1975 and there was just one toy I was whispering about in Santa’s ear. One toy I desperately wanted, longed to own, dreamt of unwrapping under the…
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First Sunday Club November 2010: Stillbirth Foundation Australia
In 2003 a friend handed me a video. “Watch this,” she said. “It’s devastating.” Devastating didn’t come close. What I watched that afternoon was “Losing Layla” – a…
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First Sunday Club October 2010: Community Angels
Forget the blue bubble snow dome of Rome and the kitsch “I heart Athens!” teaspoon. Forget the “Bula Fiji!” tea towel, the Queenstown fridge magnet and the classic…
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