My boring job as a business consultant means that I travel frequently. As a younger man I enjoyed this aspect of my work and considered it a perk, a decade later and I find it a hassle and a bore. Hotel rooms are stale, ...
I have recently become a hero in the eyes of one of my oldest friends. He's actually someone I used to know in school but he and his family emigrated to Australia when we were about 12 and I hadn’t seen him since. We k...
So I've got this new girlfriend who I just have to tell someone about. In fact I've told a lot of people about her, mates, colleagues, certain family members but I can't talk about her enough. She's wild! And I mean craz...
I married my husband at the tender age of 21 in a fairly conservative and traditional wedding. Back then the main expectations of a young woman was to find a good respectable man and to bare him some children. I may be e...
My divorce a couple of years back knocked me pretty hard and it took a significant time for me to get back on my feet. For a long time I just focused on doing what was best for my children, being there for them as much a...
Being in the navy is great and one of my proudest achievements but I feel there is no harm in admitting that there are plenty of things that I miss every time I'm posted abroad. And one of the biggest? ... women of cours...
I've got some pretty good mates but when it came to arranging my stag party, my two besties who I put in charge of organising really out did themselves. They knew that I wanted a proper blow out, to really enjoy my last ...
In the weeks leading up to my leaving for university I was growing increasingly nervous and excited at the same time. I couldn’t wait to move out of my parents' house and into the shared house that I had arranged with ...
A rebound relationship or fling to be more accurate is the age old method of getting over somebody. After a break up or heart ache of some kind, there is always going to be that next person that comes along and it's a gr...
It's always interesting to hear how others live their lives. It's easy to presume that everyone around you follows the same routine and has similar values and rules for the way they act or spend their time. It's only whe...