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Jeeralang artist Jenni Booth, who paints with her five-year-old grand-daughter from her shed overlooking the Yinnar valley. On one occasion a tiger snake stopped in for an art lesson too! Jenni created my Pen Dragon illustration (right).
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I'm Having an Affair with a Red-Blooded Italian
- 27-07-2010
- Categorized in: Green issues, Pen Dragon - general
OK, I know it's not right. But I am so damned excited! I have fallen for the sex appeal of a red-blooded Italian. Oh yes, I am proclaiming, right here and right now "f..k what everyone else thinks, I'm going for it". Yes people, I am having an affair. I am in love with my new red-leather couch (actually two, new red-leather couches) and - shock horror - they've come all the way from Itally.
I know, I know, I know. Of course I've heard the mantra...think globally, act (or buy) locally. For the environment's sake. We are all supposed to be saving and miserly and recycling and reusing and reducing our carbon footprint. But doesn't my membership of the Australian Conservation Foundation balance it all out? Doesn't the fact that my kids catch a bus to school mean I can have the occasional extravagance? Don't the new solar panels on my roof give me a little consumerist licence.
No, I hear you say. You will have to live the rest of your days in penance. Not even if you grow all your own food, sew your own clothes, make beds from dry leaves or grow bamboo for your own eco-version of feminine hygiene products, can you live without guilt. You've made your bed (or couch as the case may be) now lie in it.
Well, OK, I will, if you insist. Ohhhhhh, guilty pleasures may just be the best!