One of the common questions I used to get asked about working on a breakfast radio show, was how I dealt with those days I when I just didn't feel like having fun on the radio.
"No one's in that good a mood every day", people would say to me.
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The humble avocado is enjoying it’s zeitgeist moment. Let there a festival!
Perth’s Araluen Botanic Park has a fine history of bedding in new festival phenomena.
Back in the early naughties I remember working at the state’s first ever Chilli Festival.
Organisers had cottoned on to Perth’s growing love of all things spicy, tapping into the zeitgeist and growing the event to what is now one of the year’s most flocked-to food festivals.
Its little wonder then, that equally big things are expected for the latest food trend to be “festival-ised” at Araluen – the Avocado.
Read MoreIt’s my birthday. So I’m exercising my right to be a tad reflective.
I chose today to take a time out from all the career and business-related work I’ve been doing behind the scenes of late. If you’ve ever had to start afresh before you know it’s sometimes even busier than working full time. And I’ve been hard at it. That’s how I roll, I’m determined and stuff.
Read MoreWell, in truth, my friend didn’t actually "wake up" with new psychic abilities, but it kinda felt that way for me. To be more accurate, I should probably have called this post: “the day I woke up to my friend’s news that she has been developing her psychic senses”, but that isn’t nearly as catchy.
I remember waking up one normal work day to find a direct Facebook message sent in the night that simply read, YES. The answer to whatever you’ve been asking yourself lately is yes.
Read MoreYes, I know Perth’s City to Surf is this Sunday, but I have received inside info that you’ll still be able to be a part of it if you log on now. How do I know this? I work on the radio: benefits.
Before I lose you because, like me, you’re not a runner; take a look at number 1 on this short list of reasons why you should join me at the City to Surf on Sunday:
Have I convinced you? Register now at the City to Surf website And I’ll see you there!
The news is in and after years of uncertainty, scientists are closing in on the reason all of us humans are born with an appendix. Long regarded as pointless, or a remnant of the evolutionary process, new research from America’s Midwestern University, has indicated your appendix could be acting as a kind of storeroom for the multi-level home that is your gut: stocked up with good bacteria that’ll make you better again when you get sick.
Turns out we might bloody well need the thing.
And I, like lot of people don’t have one.
I get that we don’t have any other treatment for appendicitis right now. Another thing scientists aren’t too sure about by the way, it might be a blockage of poo. Yep, poo. Deal.
But we do know that if an appendix ruptures and you don’t want to die, the only thing to do is whip that bad boy out.
My issue is that my doc decided to take my appendix out – just in case.
I was 18 and I’d been experiencing severe abdominal pain intermittently for about 2 years. The latest episode, the worst by far, was an up all night with my head/bottom in the loo the kind of nightmare. Gross, I know, but you need the details.
Mum took me to the hospital. The thing about these episodes is that they always stopped suddenly. I’d have an agonizing few hours then, it was like it never happened. The same happened this time. By the time I was being seen by a surgeon, I was feeling kinda.. peachy.
All the same I’d been having these attacks for a while now and it was kind of annoying. We wanted answers, my doctor wanted to help, and it was decided that they’d go in and remove my appendix anyway.
My intermittent stomach pain did stop after that, so it’s fair enough to conclude that my appendix was the issue. However, my appendix never ruptured, and now we know what it does to support gut health – I’m left to wonder: am I worse off without it?
No need for too much detail here, but twenty years later I’m managing several incurable auto-immune diseases. Science is getting closer to understanding the full extent of how important gut health is to overall wellness.
How many other people are sick because a piece of their insides was removed, “just in case”?
Hopefully this research has scientists closer to finding an alternative cure for appendicitis. I’m genuinely excited about it.
Maybe it’s the much talked about fecal transplant – or “poo-fusion”? If you don’t know what I’m talking about, Google it. You won’t be disappointed.