• What is Olive on Blonde?

    The portal into wonder: What is Olive on Blonde?.

  • Hiking Boots and the Fairtrade Easter Bunny

    This weekend, I’ve been bushwalking, waitressing, drinking cheeky beverages with mates, and enjoying the sun out in the garden. Any Easter seems incomplete without chocolate these days, so this time I decided to go Fairtrade. How’s your Easter so far? HAPPY EASTER! Hope it’s been an eggsellent weekend, filled with whatever you believe in and…

  • Peace through courage

    Peace through courage “Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of…

  • Best Australian Blogs Competition – People’s Choice Round

    “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” – Mother Teresa Your kindness and encouragement never goes astray, but I want to ask if you’d vote for me in the People’s Choice Round for The Best Australian Blogs Competition. You have no obligation to…

  • Organ Donation and the Dog: Starting the Conversation

    This is a hard blog to write with my heart clenching in my chest, and not because anything’s wrong – thank you for asking – but because of two simple words, ‘Organ Donation’. They make my innards squirm. I am not against it, by the way, but we’re talking about a confronting topic, aren’t we?…

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