NoClothesNoShoes (NCNS) is back for 2012 because... I just can't be trusted. I survived 2010 not buying clothes and shoes, but 2011 saw me spiral into my usual uncontrolled spending habits. Things are desperate. I need to save money otherwise I won't be able to pay the school fees. so in 2012, not only will I not buy clothes and shoes, I won't buy teapots, mass produced Chinese urns or all the other stuff I insist on filling my small house with. I buy frivolous things all the time and I wonder why I'm still in the ranks of the working poor.

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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, champers in the other, body dirty, sunburnt, wrinkled and thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "Yah Hoo, Whatta Ride!"

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Online clothes shopping, children, meltdowns, competitions, give aways, fashion advice, partners , lifestyle, trends, Byron Bay, friends, coffee, fun and heaps more....

I'm highly versed in the art of underachieving, so much so that I'd have to say that it is my greatest achievement to date. Underachievers like me have taken the easy option all our lives, settled for second best, been satisfied with the unsatisfactory. But spurred on by an overwhelming feeling of dissatisfaction lately, I have made the decision to turn things around,and achieve something really exciting before I turn fifty. I might write a book! I might run the New York Marathon! I might score a guest gig on The Circle!

Writer. Blogger. Poledancer. Mother of four under the age of five. Lover of cheese and valium. Everything you see, I owe to spaghetti. A raw insight into parenting that is not wrapped up in cotton wool. It's funny, quirky, delightful, yet a little bit wrong.

A daily tongue-in-cheek edit of the best things to buy online. DDGdaily is the place to go for 'where did you buy that?' style finds, outfit inspiration, the most unmissable online sales and much, much more.

A first-time mother gives a frank assessment of what it's like to be pregnant and a new mum in Canberra. Includes tips on what NOT to do or say, and how to handle two sets of everything as she tries to appease Eastern and Western philosophies on kid wrangling. While looking hawt. And happy. :o)

In December 2008, I took the plunge and moved 'back home' to the south coast of NSW with my husband and two boys in tow. Not to a glamorous farmhouse with picturesque cows and verdant pastures. Nor to a contemporary glass-and-steel sand castle beside pristine waters. Nope, I washed up in a pink 1960s fibro, slap bang in the middle of a not-city town. Here, I manage motherhood, freelance writing, my ambitions to be a novelist and the day-to-day getting on with it of life in a pink fibro.