His grandad Prince Charles is said to gift the little tyke a toy car of a ‘Corgi Vintage Aston Martin’. The present has sentimental value as the Prince Charles was given a real one on his 21st birthday!
And his grandma Carole (Kate’s mum) is rumoured to be giving Georgie a beautiful rocking horse!
Related video: Little Prince George has a great time at the Royal International Air Tattoo
In an emotional interview, Carrie Bickmore has broken down while chatting to the parents of a toddler who has an aggressive form of terminal brain cancer.
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Carrie interviewed Isabella and Roy Darch, whose three-year-old son Bede was diagnosed with cancer soon after birth, on Monday’s edition of The Project.
The parents wrote a blog post earlier this year that attracted national attention after they explained their heartbreaking wish of wanting Bede to die and rest in peace, after oncologists told them the cancer had already spread through Bede’s brain stem and spine.
In the interview, Carrie is clearly moved by their story, saying, “He’s such a joyful little bid.”
“The hours that I’ve been here and seeing him with his brother — their heads so close together. It’s like their happy space.”
When Carrie addressed the blog post, Isabella said, “We just spoke about how difficult this process had been and brain cancer can often be a horrible, protracted death.”
“And I wish that I could give my child the death I want for him. Who ever thought they’d say those words?”
Diane Kruger and Joshua Jackson have called time on their 10 year relationship, Us Weekly reports.
“Diane Kruger and Josh Jackson have decided to separate and remain friends,” a rep for the estranged lovers tells the publication.
And it seems that despite the heartache, the 40-year-old beauty is ready to start the next chapter of her life.
The actress seemingly hinted at her new relationship status in a series of telling Instagram snaps, posted over the last few weeks.
Sharing a moment from her recent birthday in which Joshua was absent, she wrote, “It’s my party and I cry if I want to #anewbeginning.”
Meanwhile split rumours intensified in December when Diane was linked to Walking Dead star Norman Reedus.
Onlookers told The New York Daily News the pair were “all over each other” and “making out” in a New York bar.
Days ago, Diane also shared a short clip of her flying away from the Manhattan skyline, causing fans to speculate that she had indeed moved out their New York home.
The newly-single Diane has been sharing poetry and telling horoscopes about her new relationship status.
The couple moved into the lavish pad in The Big Apple earlier this year after nine years of splitting their time between Vancouver and Paris.
Speaking of the move, Diane told Net-A-Porter’s The Edit, “[Moving] was a major commitment. That’s a big step into adulthood for me, to allow that time for someone else out of my time.”
Watch Joshua tell the very awkward story of his first date with Diane in the video player below! Post continues…
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Back in 2014, the Dawson’s Creek star revealed the very personal reasons why he and his then-partner had never tied the knot.
“I can tell you why we’re not married: We’re not religious,” he told Glamour.
“I don’t feel any more or less committed to Diane for not having stood in front of a priest and had a giant party.”
He went on: “We’re both children of divorce, so it’s hard for me to take marriage at face value as the thing that shows you’ve grown up and are committed to another person.”
“But it may change at some point.”
The pair have been the topic of separation speculation for months.
Radio presenter and television personality Fifi Box is set to join the cast of Neighbours.
Fifi will be playing the role of Brooke Butler, an opportunistic, flighty and dubious woman who relies on her looks to get by.
Sounds like trouble if you ask us!
So where does Brooke fit in?
Well, she is the wayward mother of Xanthe Canning (Lilly Van der Meer), estranged girlfriend of Gary Canning (Damien Richardson) and de-facto daughter-in-law of the Canning family matriarch, Sheila (Colette Mann).
“I’m so excited to be heading to Ramsay Street to join the Neighbours family,” Fifi says.
“Acting has been a lifelong dream of mine and to get this opportunity on Australia’s most loved and popular show has blown my mind. I’m too excited for words!”
Fifi starts filming this week and will debut on screen in September.
The world’s most famous bridesmaid is set to walk down the aisle for her very own wedding.
The Daily Mail reports Pippa Middleton is officially off the market after her boyfriend James Matthews popped the question.
James reportedly got down on one knee during a weekend escape to the Lake District recently, with the pair planning to wed in a lavish ceremony in the UK next year.
Pippa, who was Kate’s maid of honour, is likely to return the favour, bestowing the role of chief bridesmaid on her older sister.
Kate and Pippa on the eve of Kate’s 2011 wedding.
The report also claims James, 40, asked Pippa’s father Michael Middleton for her hand in marriage.
“James is a traditionalist and very much wanted to do things properly. That meant getting his future father in law’s consent,” an insider tells.
Apparently the proposal caught the 32-year-old off guard and she is over the moon.
The younger sister of Kate Middleton did little to dispel the engagement rumours when she stepped out at the Frost Family Summer Party in London on Monday evening expertly hiding her left hand.
Twelve years ago, photographer Sarah Wong started documenting the journey of transgender children, aged between 5 and 17, undertaking hormone therapy. The resulting portraits are incredibly beautiful
Twelve years ago, photographer Sarah Wong was working as a healthcare photographer when she met a group of transgender children. At the time they were aged between 5 and 17, and amongst the first in the world to undergo a therapy developed by Peggy Cohen-Kettenis, the founder of Europe’s first clinic for children and adolescents with gender dysphoria, at VU University in Amsterdam.
Wong was profoundly moved by their stories, and was inspired to document their experiences with her camera. That was the day the photoseries, Inside Out: Portraits Of Cross-Gender Children, was born.
“The greatest nightmare from a cross-gender child is your body growing the wrong direction,” Wong tells The Weekly. ” A boy doesn’t want breasts and girls don’t want to have a beard. The puberty-blockers gave relief and thinking time, and they could grow up like ‘normal’ teenagers.”
It was important for Wong to use her talents as an artist to try and raise public awareness about the transgender community.
“It’s very important for society to see these images — there’s nothing sensational about transgender kids. Again, at the end we’re pretty much the same: we’re all souls who want to live happy and give meaning to our life and others,” Wong says.
During her time photographing the children, Wong was particularly careful not to make their transition the focus of the portraits. “With their portraits I wanted to empower them — no sensational journalistic approach,” Wong says. “Not a boy in a dress or a girl with a football. I wanted people to see the portraits and say, ‘Lovely children, but who are they?’
“At the end we’re all the same. Souls who want to live happily and give meaning to our lives and others.”
*Sarah’s latest photoseries is called SoulFlowers, and is inspired by the transgender children she has photographed over the years. It aims to capture the soul of different people in the world.
A group of cancer survivors have proudly displayed the scars from the surgeries that saved their lives in a breathtaking photo series.
Called “Scar Stories”, the collection of images is the brainchild of Jasmine Gailer, who was just 22 years old when surgery to remove her osteosarcoma left her with a 30cm scar on her leg.
“My whole body image had changed and I was focused on hiding my scar,” she said. “I was ashamed of it and I was ashamed of my story.”
Jasmine started the Scar Stories project to help normalise scars from cancer surgery and raise money for cancer charity CanTeen.
The powerful images have been exhibited around Australia, raising more than $7000.
Hayley, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma survivor. Photography by Lisa Auger. WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES
Chris, leukaemia survivor. Photography by Lisa Auger.
Jasmine, osteosarcoma survivor. Photography by Charmaine Lyons.
Breast cancer survivors and victims. Photography by Suzanne McCorkell.
Jas, rhabdomyosarcoma survivor, and Sue, melanoma survivor. Photography by Charmaine Lyons.
Sara, osteogenic sarcoma survivor. Photography by Fiona Vail.
Charlotte, liver cancer survivor. Photography by Steve Tyssen.
Ashleigh, thyroid cancer survivor. Photography by Georgia Brizuela.
Criag, brain tumour survivor. Photography by Brihannah Rilstone.
Hannah, Ewings sarcoma survivor. Photography by Lisa Auger.
Jasmine, osteosarcoma survivor. Photography by Georgia Brizuela.
Jasmine, osteosarcoma survivor. Photography by Georgia Brizuela.
Jason, osteosarcoma survivor. Photography by Lisa Auger.
Lisa, Hodgkin’s lymphoma survivor. Photography by Steve Tyssen.
Lisa, Hodgkin’s lymphoma survivor. Photography by Steve Tyssen.
Lucy, Ewings sarcoma survivor. Photography by April Kendall.
You’ve heard it all before, you’re meant to be getting eight hours of Zzz’s every night. But whenever you hit the pillow, you’re wide awake. So, here are 10 helpful tips you need to try tonight before sliding under the sheets. Trust us, after reading this, you’ll wake up feeling reading to take on the world.
Create a sleep schedule
A regular sleep routine is best for your biological clock, so try to wake up and go to bed the same time every day – and yes, this even means weekends!
Exercise
Ever feel like snoozing after finishing an epic workout? Well, that’s the sleep-inducing melatonin that’s released in your brain after you begin to cool down. Having a sweat-sesh, especially cardio, improves sleep. Avoid it within four hours of your bedtime though, as this inhibits your Zzz time because your body temperature is high.
Spritz some scents
There are certain scents which help with relaxation, like lavender and chamomile. Mix in a few drops of essential oil with water and spritz it onto your pillow.
Keep it cool
Having a restless sleep is usually because your bedroom is too hot. A warm shower or warm bath before bed is actually really helpful, as it will temporarily raise your body temperature, but cool down once you hop out. This mimics what your brain does when it readies the body for sleep. Between 18 degrees and 30 degrees is the perfect temperature for a deep slumber.
Make sure your bed is comfortable
Since most of us will spend approximately one-third of our lives asleep, your bed deserves serious investment. Buy the right mattress and ensure you get a pillow that suits how you sleep – on your side, back, firm or soft.
Heading into Winter, a good quality quilt is key. Whether you prefer white duck down for warmth without the weight or wool for its natural vapour management system, the type of quilt you choose can considerably improve your quality of sleep. Fresh sheets are also an easy indulgence, invest in an extra set so you can change them frequently.
Cover up light sources
Keep your bedroom quiet and dark. Any kind of light, like electronics that are on, can still sometimes penetrate your closed eyelids into the part of your brain that controls sleep. Maybe consider an eye mask, as the darker your room is, the deeper your sleep will be.
Power down
Smartphones and tablets use a blue light which tricks the brain into thinking you need to wake up. To really wind down, ban screen-time an hour before bed. That Candy Crush game can wait till morning.
Ditch the caffeine
Try to ease off the coffee or tea by the early afternoon. The stimulating effects of caffeine can take hours to wear off, which can disrupt sleep.
Relax
Get all zen and chill out before hopping into bed. Dim the lights, do a bit of reading, or write down in a journal anything that’s been on your mind.
Consider kicking your pets off the bed
As much as you may love cuddling up to your furry friend at night, more than half of people who sleep with their pets say the animals disturb their slumber, according to a survey from the Mayo Clinic Sleep Disorders Center. So if your pet doesn’t sleep soundly through the night, pull their little mat next to your bed – and not on it!
Ditch the arvo naps
Sure, you might feel like you absolutely need a cat nap after a long day of work, but if it’s not done right, it could put serious pressure on a good night’s sleep. Try and eliminate naps altogether, or limit them to 25-30 minutes max.
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If as a mother, there’s one little tip you can pass on to your daughter that might help her enjoy a productive, happy and neurosis-free life, I reckon it’s this: don’t tidy your room.
I mean it. And here’s why. Amid all the extraordinary changes that have befallen Australian women over the past half-century (the surge into the workplace, reproductive freedom, no-fault divorce, military combat roles, Botox, the periodic arrival and departure of high-waistedness as a fashion trend), there is one significant feature of life that hasn’t changed very much at all; women still do about twice as much housework as men.
Now, there are two ways you can approach this disparity, as a gender.
You can whine and moan about men doing more. Or you can take the radical option and just do less yourself.
The Canadian writer Stephen Marche recently observed that, “housework is the only political problem in which doing less and not caring are the solution, where apathy is the most sensible and progressive attitude”.
And that’s the approach I have taken to heart. My house, where my partner and I and our three children live, is a glorious tribute to all the things that are more important than housework.
Mine is one of those homes which would – should we ever feel like selling – need about two weeks of concerted scrubbing and sorting, and dusting-of-high-ledges and a vicious targeted eradication of old craft projects.
Mine is the sort of home where guests for lunch present – apart from menu planning – the added unspoken question as to whose job it will be to clear the dining room table of its drifts of paper, unopened letters and things that people dumped there on the way in from school.
Deposits of useful items (sticky tape, the rare and invaluable Pens That Work, the keys to my son’s toy handcuffs, spare batteries) cluster together on vulnerable surface areas like mice in a haystack.
My partner, Jeremy, is an intrepid housework-sharer, talented launderer and instinctively much tidier than I am. Yet we both work full-time and the numbers don’t lie; the hours in the day just aren’t sufficient to accommodate two working lives plus all the time we need to spend with our children.
And if it comes down to a choice between tidying the living room and making gingerbread with the children, then in my view there is no contest. Consequently, my house is what it is.
Annabel Crabb with her family.
When The Weekly’s Editor-In-Chief Helen McCabe (in her matchlessly charming way) suggested a chat and possible family photograph after I published my book The Wife Drought, my policy was clear: sure, you can come and take pictures in our house, but I’m not tidying up.
Posing in an artificially tidied home, pretending we’re a relentlessly ordered family, would be a fib. Our house is messy. Messy is what it is.
In the end, we ended up in a studio, romping about self-consciously for photographs in an artfully disordered but controlled environment.
However, I like the way my house is. It’s like my parents’ house, on the Adelaide Plains farm where I grew up and where friendly disorder always reigned; Lego citadels, intricate costumes made out of paper shopping bags and the serial projects of my crafty, kitchen-innovator of a mother. She made her own soap. She wove her own baskets.
In a fabulous burst of activity, she once knitted a blanket from wool she had carded, spun and dyed herself, with wool shorn from our own sheep.
That blanket is – in any future will and testament – the only thing on which I really will insist.
My room was always a mess and it still is, and sometimes I think not minding about that is the greatest gift my mother has given me.
Genuinely not minding that the kitchen cupboards are dusty – or that my desk is still cluttered with notes, splayed reference texts and illegible little Post-It notes from a book I finished writing nearly a year ago – is like a season ticket to the happiness that comes from doing other things.
One of the reasons the housework debate is so diabolical – and why, in countless households across Australia, the dishes and the recycling, and the timeless dispute about whose job it really is to clean the toilet carry such potential for discord – is that men and women often have asymmetric standards about what constitutes an acceptable level of clean.
It’s one thing to agree that housekeeping will be split equally, but it’s another thing entirely to reach agreement upon the absolute minimum that must be done and this is where the frustration often erupts.
One party might think that a kitchen bench is clean if it’s been given an optimistic swipe with a dingy Chux. The other, meanwhile, might be incapable of sleep until it’s been fully cleared and disinfected.
Why do women, on average, have higher standards? Well, it’s not the case in my household, so I’m an unreliable witness, but my best guess is that it’s because women have more skin in the game than men.
An untidy house belonging to the Brown family is far more likely, in local gossip, to be “Mrs Brown’s filthy house” than “Mr Brown’s filthy house”.
And, you know, every now and again, when I’m rampaging through the house looking for nail scissors or that birthday present I bought two days ago for the kids’ party to which we are, right at that minute, already 20 minutes late, I do feel the siren call of orderliness and wish I had one of those houses in which minimalist furniture sprawls languidly across vast empty planes of dust-free space, interrupted only by the odd witty vase or coffee-table book about wallpaper.
Yet then I remember. Skiving off housework is my international ticket to more fun things, like hanging out with my slightly dishevelled children. A bit of mess never hurt anyone, after all.
Annabel Crabb is the author of The Wife Drought, published by Random House.
This story was originally published in the March issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly.
Diane Kruger and Joshua Jackson have called it quits on their relationship after 10 years together.
Reps have said that Kruger, 40, and Jackson, 38, will remain friends.
The couple lived in New York together, and owned houses in Paris and Vancouver.
They never married, with Jackson explaining in 2014: “We’re not religious. I don’t feel any more or less committed to Diane for not having stood in front of a priest and had a giant party.
“We’re both children of divorce, so it’s hard for me to take marriage at face value as the thing that shows you’ve grown up and are committed to another person. But it may change at some point. We may get married.”
