Cracking Yarns… “Dear Fatty”
![Great reads](https://uncommon-courage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Dear-Fatty-Dawn-French.jpg)
Have you read Dawn French’s “Dear Fatty” yet? This is a beautiful, hopeful, lovely and sweet book, by a woman who is obviously beautiful, hopeful, lovely and sweet.
I hate gossip
![Don't gossip](https://uncommon-courage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Gossip.jpg)
I really hate gossip. I find it extremely dangerous, hurtful, petty and most of the time, the person is completely wrong. It’s like being judgmental – which I also hate
Memory lane… Billy Idol
![Girls day out](https://uncommon-courage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Billy-Idol.jpg)
In 2003 I saw Bill Idol in concert in Sydney. I went with four amazing friends and we accidentally had the greatest day
The troops go home – so what now?
![US exit Iraq](https://uncommon-courage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/US-military-leave-Iraq.jpg)
It was pretty amazing watching the news this week when it was announced US combat troops were leaving Iraq. I felt relived for the soldiers finally finishing their tour of duty
My husband… an incompatibility
![True love](https://uncommon-courage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Marriage-incompatibility.jpg)
When we met it was like falling in love with an opposite sex version of ourselves, we were so closely aligned in all of our thinking, values, morals and more.
Facing up to fear
![Mind games](https://uncommon-courage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Fear.jpg)
Whenever I was sitting around doing pretty much anything, these horrible disaster scenarios would run through my head
The reality of the move kicks in
![Andrea Edwards](https://uncommon-courage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Moving-house-again.jpg)
We got rejected with our third request for a lease extension. We don’t know if the real estate agent is doing a number on us or
Well I bought a Woman’s Day, so….
![Womens magazines suck](https://uncommon-courage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Lindy-Chamberlain-30-years-on.jpg)
I stopped buying women’s magazines when I was a teenager, because they made me feel like shit about myself and I thought, why read them?
Azaria Chamberlain – 30 years on
![Azaria Chamberlain](https://uncommon-courage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Lindy-and-Azaria-on-Rock.jpg)
But there was a good reason: it has an exclusive interview with Lindy Chamberlain on the 30th anniversary of Azaria’s death
Flat, flat, flat!
![Weary mother](https://uncommon-courage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Flat-flat-flat.jpg)
I’ve had a few weeks of really achieving some great stuff, but right now, I am done in. The main reason has to be my boys and this cold snap.