Hi Mate

Hi Mate,  I saw both of those Instagram posts too. I didn’t read the ZoFoBla one because it had far too many words! But I read the EHawk one and thought, yeah, that’s OK girl. In general, I have mixed feelings about her Instagram feed. On the face of it, she is aiming for a place in the pantheon of WAGs who have effortless style, and taste that is very…tasteful. They love textiles and homewares and relaxing at home with family. This is gross and I have not time for it, other than all the time I spend looking at it on the gram, which is heaps, obvs. But looking at EHawk’s photos, I get the impression that she’s not quite on top of the whole effortless style thing, and it makes me feel a bit sorry for her. Like, it’s  technically  effortless style, but it’s a bit munted. Poor little EHawk, I think. You’re not quite nailing it, are you? The whole thing makes me feel a little more fondly towards her.   And while we’re on the topic of feeling fondly, Deb from Smitten Kitchen posted a pictur

Are you there God - it's me Margaret. Just jokes, hi mate. I'm here. Weird. When I come to Blogger it automatically takes me to the Miss Soft Crab page. I have to navigate away to come here to Hi Mate. It is both quite sad but also fine. If I were to write Miss Soft Crab this week and had the time to write a decent post I would have written about two Instagram posts I saw last week which got me thinking. First ZoFoBla posted a picture of her sleeping baby and the caption was about her baby's reflux and how she's received some hot tips on how to combat it and one thing she did - and you should do to if your baby doesn't sleep - is buy this $300 bed thing which helps the baby sleep and burp I guess. "It's $300 dollars and you can only use it for 3-4 months, but what price sleep?" It really ground my gears. Like, I know $300 is not $1000 but not everyone has $300 lying around. For some people that is a lot of money but her comment really made it fee