Monthly archive for August2007

Probe the Strobe

I CAME across a woman who’d been beaten by her boyfriend late the other night. She was in the foyer of a top hotel, hysterical, her face blotched and bruised, begging the concierge to save her from the man in room 602. The man she’d…

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Abstinence makes heart fonder

LET’S talk about sex. Either everyone’s lying through their teeth, or it’s everyone else who’s having it, not them. Married people like to quip that the game’s up as soon as the wedding’s done and dusted, secretly envying their single friends who they assume are…

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Snowed under on the slopes

TIRED of disproportionate gender ratios that don’t fall in your favour? Then here’s the solution for you: Thredbo, where there are more men than you can poke a stock at. The snow’s thick on the ground and it’s prime hunting season in the alps: 12…

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Watts all single women want

WHEN the news broke: “Naomi Watts gives birth”, I was tempted to suggest it should lead the next Sky news bulletin. Not for the extraordinariness of it (she is 38) but for the hope it would give to women who fear they’re staring down the…

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Older newsreaders are hot

MARY, please don’t go. It’s just that you’re all we’ve got. Maxine McKew’s gone political, Jennifer Byrne’s gone to books, Anne Fulwood’s gone to APEC and Jana’s just gone. Aside from the fact that Mary Kostakidis is so watchable, credible and believable, her presence on…

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