One Ro, Many Roads

Dear Peeps, I was lucky to spend two nights at FV Peppers, in Fortitude Valley (FV). For those of you who don't know , The Valley is very close to Brisbane City Centre and is the night club precinct. A girlfriend and I shared the cost of the room for one night and as a treat to myself, I had the first night on my own. FV Peppers is amazing. Worth every penny to spoil yourself. You can hire out the private spa room or go to the roof top pool and spa. I took myself on a date to the spa room and just enjoyed the water and view. Here are some photos of some iconic buildings in Brunswick Street Mall. On the Saturday, we went to Enigma, which is a night club. It holds an over 30s disco every few months from 3 - 8pm, playing 80s and 90s music. We had a blast. We wore our sparkles and danced the night away. The other regular site in FV is homeless people. My grandfather always advised me to give food to the homeless, never money. If that is right or wrong I don't know. I spoke to Jazz,...

Hi Peeps, Please note there are triggers in this story. I mention sexual abuse. Please stop reading if this is a trigger for you. A few weeks ago I mentioned I have been undertaking Somatic Experience (SE) therapy. This therapy has been so helpful for me as part of the many other things I do to try and heal. Most of my anxiety and depression is held in my body. I would be constantly telling the GP about the physical sensations I have. The pins and needles in certain parts of my body, the knotted muscles, the soreness - I felt like they ignored this. The medication did not help these symptoms so I started to investigate. A few years back, I came across some somatic therapy information, it made sense to me. However, like anything it is another cost and when you are raising 3 kids with limited financial support from your ex you put them first. At the end of 2024, I came across a local Somatic Experience therapist. He popped up on Facebook. Yes, this time I lis...

 Dear Peeps, I have so many amazing people in my life, I just have to share them. I will write a series on them but in no particular order. As in the first one is not my most favourite, it is they are amazing and I need to acknowledge them. I love them all. Today, I am going to talk about 🌞. The back story is I used to work 🌞 when I worked in a Admin Management role for a Hospital. 🌞 was in the same office.  🌞 is one of those people who are just so positive even when the chips are down. She taught me to like hugs (I am not a hugger so that is huge for me). I love 🌞. 🌞 and I started a staff wellbeing group at this Hospital. Once a month we used to run a challenge or event and ask all the staff to attend. We did push up challenges, plank challenges, Melbourne Cup hat competitions and many other fun things. However, when I left to go to be a teacher 🌞 stepped up the program and started an annual fun run called the  Reddy Fun Run  .  This run/walk raises...

Dear Peeps, You all will have your own opinion on this but for me it is being a parent. Please notice the present tense as once you have a child, this job never stops. As you know S&P were amazing parents (I thank the universe daily for them). I was lucky to have such great role models, and also see some other great parents like S&G, my childhood BFF's parents 👩‍❤️‍👨. These are the people I modelled my parenting style from. I was 24, when I had my first child - beautiful little boy 🐒. I do want to acknowledge, I had a miscarriage prior so he was not my first pregnancy. He was the first grandchild and great grandchild on my Dad's side. He was so welcomed and so loved. Then 18 months later I gave birth to identical twin girls 🐒🐒. My son was only 10 months old when I found out I was having twins. I laughed hysterically when I found out I was having twins. Only a parent will understand why. I was determined to be a great Mum and with the help of my ex husband we made a...

Dear Peeps, So I know a lot of you have been married for many years. Firstly, I would like to congratulate you if you are still together and happy😀. But if you are unhappy and thinking of coming to the dark side here is a sneak peak. Dating Apps are really the only way to meet new people. Notice I did not write single, new people, because that is part of the surprise! You don't know if they are really single or not. You would have heard of Tinder, Bumble and Hinge. I have tried all of them. Bumble was great for casual sex, Tinder is great for entertainment, I mean I love reading men's profiles that ask you to treat them like a baby and change their nappies (no, I am not joking). Hinge was better for finding men closer to my location. Sadly, the distance you are happy to travel is something you end up searching on because you aren't going to sit in traffic for an hour each night after work to have a date. (Having 🙈🙊🙉 living with me meant I would never invite dates to my ...

Hi Peeps, As you know I have 3 🐒🐒🐒. The oldest is a male and the other two are female. Yes, I love them all equally, even though they say I have favourites. Like any mother, I have watched my son and his mates over the years. I have seen them grow into amazing young men. He has amazing friends who have supported him (as he supports them) for years. But sadly, sometimes I see them struggling with their place in the world. All over the news we see woman's rights and equality. This is great but many times these media outlets also show young men in a bad light. Men are violent, men are rapists, men are bad. Well, it is time someone spoke up. The minority of men are violent, there are a small amount of men who are bad and not all men are rapists. Shock horror, women are also violent, some women are bad and woman can be rapists. I hear boys talking about consenual sex and worrying if they should get a woman to sign something to say they agree to have sex. No, I am not joking. These yo...

Dear Peeps, We have all had mean stuff said about us over the years. But the teenage years are a sensitive time, especially as our body image is formed. I went to a high school in country Victoria, a small town, where they had a festival about potatoes and every year they crowned a Potato Princess🥔. For year 11 camp we got bused to QLD and spent 2 weeks travelling around. So cool! It was the highlight of your time at high school. I was so fortunate that S&P paid for me to go. 😍 First stop - Great Keppel Island aka Paradise!! We swam and hiked and just had fun with our mates. Second stop - Fraser Island - not as beautiful as Great Keppel but stunning in its own way. Just watch out for dingoes and mean boys. Mean boys? What does Ro mean? One night I was walking back to my tent, which I shared with 3 other girls - yes we did laugh and talk all night💕💕💕💕. I had amazing friends. I walked past a tent, which was filled with boys and heard one boy, lets call him 🤡 speaking. 🤡 said ...

Hi Peeps, A few posts ago I mentioned moving close to my arch nemesis. I know you haven't been able to sleep waiting to find out 🤷🏼‍♀️. Today, I am going to put you out of your misery. In some contexts, an arch-nemesis can refer to a task or goal that a person struggles to achieve. And let me tell you, this task has broken me on occasions. I finally feel I have conquered it and yet again it beats me. Just like any good enemy, Batman and the Joker, Tom and Jerry, Jerry and Newman. (I love how Jerry Seinfeld spits out Newman😂. Drum roll please🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 Sunnyside Road. Strava name - How do you like your eggs??🥹😂 Looking at this image you are like, why is Ro complaining about 0.31metres. Ro is 🤪. I challenge you to come and try it yourself. This is a hill in Scarborough, yes Scarborough does have a hill, just like Margate has King St. Over the years, I have crawled, walked, jogged and run up and down this hill. I am being serious!! The worst time in our relationship was during...

 Dear Peeps, If you were a Friends fan you will understand the title of this blog. It is the age old debate that if you are on a "break" during your relationship is it ok to sleep with someone else? If you never watched Friends, Rachel suggests they take a break from their relationship after a fight.  Ross agrees, but they never discuss the specifics of the break. Ross goes to a party and sleeps with another woman, which leads to a major conflict when Rachel finds out. This situation sparks the "We were on a break" debate, as Ross claims his actions were ok because they were on a break.  The episode, which aired in 1997, is the origin of the famous "We were on a break" phrase in pop culture.  Nova FM were discussing this again on the radio last week. I thought of Ross and Rachel straight away.  Now I am going to jump into the debate. The Oxford Dictionary defines a break as -  short period of time when you stop what you are doing....

Dear Peeps, The other night I was coming home from work and I was stopped at some lights and bam💥, a car runs into the back of me. I pulled over into the side street and obviously was hesitant to the reaction I would get from the driver. He was actually really nice and I was surprised there was so little damage for the force he hit me at. I was jolted forwards and pulled back by the seat belt. It gave me a shock. We exchanged details but I did not get his address. He told me to contact him if I needed anything. He also admitted fault and went on a whole big ramble about how people don't take responsibility for their actions. He admitted to being very tired and he was not paying attention. The insurance company told me I needed his address or I would pay the excess. This would be reimbursed later if he was proved guilty but why should I pay $900 excess if I did nothing wrong. When I took the photo of his licence I missed 2 digits and did not take a photo of the back. I was too shak...

Hi Peeps, In the last month, I have spoken on Nova 106.9 (Brisbane) three times. The first segment topic was when have you been to a massage parlour and realised it was not a legitimate massage parlour. Oh yeah - think rub and tug and happy ending. It could only happen to me. You need to hear the audio of this. I did ask to be anonymous and go into "The Cone of Silence." First, I gave Luttsy some shit, then I discussed my trip to Thailand, where this sign was on the door - Free WIFI, no sex. Photo credit - Ro Finally, I spoke about my experience in a local Thai massage venue. I realised my mistake not long after I entered the room. The towels had not been changed on the massage table. I could hear men coming in asking for certain woman and leaving. Then sadly, the masseuse begged me to come back. I felt terrible when she asked that of me. Ahh 💩. Here is the link to listen My second Nova call was on weird names. Being a teacher I have seen some very different names - Blessing...

Hi Peeps, I have arrived in Scarborough. Did you guess my - Back to the Future - reference. I moved to the Redcliffe Peninsula (Scarborough, Margate, Redcliffe, Kippa Ring, Woody Point, Clontarf) in 2002. My finance (now ex husband) loved water. I loved QLD and wanted to return after living in Victoria for such a long time. We came to visit my ex husband's family and he fell in love with the place. Me, I wanted to live in the city. Being the person I am, I gave in because I wanted him to be happy. My parents and brother decided to come also. How lucky was I!! These are the places I have lived on the Peninsula: Woody Point - a rented unit. I used to travel to Greenslopes from there to work. Yep stupid. Scarborough - we bought our first home for $165k off J&L. The most beautiful couple, who became dear friends. They will get their own post. Scarborough again - same street but different number. We built an amazing house to raise 🙈🙊🙉. Scarborough - back and forth to S&Ps hou...