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Has something annoyed or interested you? Read other women's take on life right here. We tell it like it is.

Gym guilt trip

The way to riches for any gym owner is paved with the good intentions of others. Buy why does not going make you feel so guilty? And why don't you just cancel your membership?

Heaven for R100

Whatever it is you want, I know of a guy who can make it all happen for a hundred bucks, says Susan Erasmus.

Ho ho hum

The sight of the first Christmas decorations makes me go into hiding. Even if they appear in September. Especially if they appear in September.

Losing face

Last week a spider bite made my face swell up. I looked like the Elephant Man. So is complete withdrawal from society the only solution?

Love your neighbour

It’s the one reason I continue to buy lottery tickets – so I never have to have neighbours again. Not ones I can hear or see, anyway.

A cash explosion?

Three strangers phoned me yesterday. They wanted to lend me vast sums of money. Overdraft, personal loan and credit card. Should I feel rich, or what?

Poor Paris

It’s very hard to be an heiress when you get chucked into chookie, and no-one feels sorry for you because, well, they’re saying you must be doing psychotropic drugs.

Being a wimp

It has taken me many years to perfect the art of being a wimp. It has not come naturally and has taken a fair amount of work. That's because I'm actually a reformed volcano.

What a doc's waiting room tells you

Ugly curtains put me off. Call me shallow, by all means. But I judge a book by its cover – especially in guest houses, doctors’ waiting rooms and lawyers’ offices.

A fool and his money

Free gifts, miracle weight loss products and stores where shoppers do themselves a favour by shopping there - if you believe that, you'll believe anything.

DJ wanted, 75+

Imagine a chef who was as thin as beanpole, a DJ aged 75, or a union leader of 18. Something just doesn’t fit. Or are we just prejudiced?

Sentenced to death

Public hangings were part of everyday life in Victorian England. In some countries they still are. Just ask the Hussein family.

Right on queue

The world is overpopulated – and how I would like to deal with it, is to give up all the people ahead of me in the queue for medical experiments. Starting now.

Your diet, my dinner party

What do dieters and recently converted fanatics have in common? They don’t get invited to dinner parties anymore. Not mine anyway.

Not the Hilton

Poor Paris Hilton. Dehydration, claustrophobia, hyperventilation – that’s the nasty little trio of medical ailments which got her out of jail after just three days.