Dear Bandit

Bandit Heeler Brisbane Queensland  Australia Dear Bandit, I loved reading your letter about exercise. We don't get enough of it with small crazy people running around us, that's for sure! Most of my exercise consists of carrying Littles here and there on my shoulders - the "Good seat", she calls it. And, Bandit, that used to be easier! She's getting taller and I'm getting shorter. You're very right that it is important to exercise to stay healthy, but I'm not sure it's healthy to be worrying about your weight. In fact, I'm pretty sure that's an unhealthy attitude, especially when we show it in front of our kids. My advice would be to throw those scales away! They're not helping anyone. So if you're exercising because you want to be fit and healthy, good on you. But if it's because society is telling you that you're not an attractive shape, then society can just bugger off! I'm actually a bit worried about raising a daugh...

Bandit Heeler Brisbane Queensland  Australia Dear Bandit, I write to tell you of a rather silly mistake I made. But one which I had thought was well-informed. Littles and I were watching Scooby-Doo and the Loch Ness Monster. Dreadful Scottish accents, by the way. Isabelle speculated that the monster may be real. I told her that it would turn out to be a costume and/ or a robot. She said "But what if a real monster and not a robot costume thing?" I said "Then you can have an Easter Egg before bedtime." I have a stash of them ready for the hunt, and was quite confident and perhaps a little smug. Almost immediately after I had spoken, Velma said "Monster? I don't think so!" Thank you, Velma! Except this particular Scooby-Doo ended with a glimpse of what appeared to be the actual monster. After some highly embarrassed soul-searching, the only decision I could make was to honour the agreement, without trying to duck out on a technicality. Bedtime was not fu...