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My Dad has a great sense of humour and rarely acts his age (he’s 63). He loves football, which is something neither my brother nor I have taken to our hearts. Possibly due to being dragged along to watch him play...

A few months before my partner's mum Joan turned seventy, she'd been asking questions about the internet. "So, you can really talk to your relatives overseas instantly for nothing?" Or, "You can really see pictures of how fat your school friends got?"

I went to school for painting and drawing, and focused exclusively on fine art pursuits until my first son was born almost ten years ago. While I continued drawing and painting and showing my work, I became interested in the idea of integrating my lifelong love of sewing and toys.

I’m a child of the ’70s. Brought up on a diet of Kiss, Ramones, The Muppets and Saturday morning cartoons. Rock’n’roll has been pulsing through my veins since a very young age, and the pulse only seems to get stronger as the years go by.

I started it ten years ago in 2006. I had been working in the world of independent magazine publishing, but took a break in 2002 to have my son, Oscar.

A chat with Jill Robertson, writer and co-founder of Wee Society

Rock That Museum Kid is all about kids and art. Enjoy this mini chat with founder Mille Maria.

There are labours of love in this world, and then there's the Ai Pioppi Playground. The brainchild of 79-year-old grandfather and madcap inventor Bruno Ferrin, the Ai Pioppi Playground has been almost 50 years in the making – a miracle of hand-welding, scrap metal and basic physics that has produced...

It's no secret that Mexico is dealing with more than its fair share of issues these days. Home to an ongoing war with its numerous drug cartels that has claimed somewhere in the vicinity of 100,000 lives, it's a country that is living the Narcos nightmare in real time.

A chat with Jacqui Ma, founder and designer of Goodordering (our new favourite maker of backpacks) When did you start Goodordering? It was 2012 at the same time I had my son, while we were living on top of a family bike shop in East London.

These summer holidays we took a road trip up the East coast of Australia. With the whole Brady Bunch-esque family in tow, each of the 'grown-ups' had to drive their own version of adventure mobile.

When we were 13, my friend Anna and I started skateboarding. We cruised downtown after school, went looking for empty car-parks in the holidays, built slalom courses down the middle of Anna’s street, and tried our best not to mow down old ladies and policemen.

I remember the exact moment I wrote in a text document on my laptop "Make Lunch Lady a magazine". It was 3:30am, in a tent, on a hill, in Wales. I had severe jetlag and was dealing with crippling anxiety. The tent and night time was my sanctuary. I was...

We are so excited to be able to show you a sneaky peak the newest Lunch Lady! Issue Three isn't far away and we're giving you the chance to be the very first to get your hands on a copy. Not only will you be the first to have her,...

SURPRISE! Holy moly I’ve been busting to share something with you all for so long! Imagine being pregnant and not being able to tell anyone until the day your baby popped out, it's kinda, but not really, just like that.

People who think of other people, without a thought for themselves are freaking beautiful. They offer small gestures that are so heartbreakingly honest and true they amount to the most beautiful. Last year I was called to collect my big kid from school after she'd hurt herself. At 8:00pm that...

I Realised I Couldn’t Save the World But I Could Make Someone’s World Better 8 September 2015 I know a lot of us are feeling it. That sense of helplessness in a world full of sadness and desperation. My brain keeps trying to come up with clever solutions to everyone’s...

Learning Something Little Felt Really Big 22 June 2015 I have been wanting to learn how to make cheese forever. It is second to salami on my stuck on a deserted island food list. But I have always been too busy, too tired or too boring. It took my fella...

When Funk Doesn’t Involve a Cool Bassline 15 June 2015 Some days, weeks and even years are harder than others. Just getting upright and propelling yourself forward is all you can muster. It sucks and it is hard. When mid rut, cooking for the family is possibly the last thing...

Love in a Jar 19 May 2015 My best friend has a lemon tree. I don’t. She is 5 foot flat. I’m not. My tiny best friend has limited access to the full stash of lemons from her heaving tree, so I help myself to the bounty just out her...

This time every year I start to get all deep and meaningful. I assess the situations current in my life and look to where they may head, why they're heading in that direction and if it isn't the way I want them to be going, then all of a sudden I start to think...

Have you got a song that just spoke to you at the right time. It said everything you were feeling when you felt no one else was feeling it? This song came on my shuffled playlist this morning and I had to share. I had totally forgotten about it. But...

In 1996, I was 20. I moved in to a crumbling art deco apartment on busy Barkly Street, St Kilda. I had minimal possessions, the most important of them being my 3000+ CD collection and my coffee percolator. If that was all I had, I was fine. Nothing much has...

Bagels, Balls and Living Life Your Way 27 October 2014 I know it looks like there hasn’t been much happening in Lunch Lady land lately, but I can assure you, nothing can be further from the truth. Things are happening, for sure, and all will become apparent very soon! BUT,...