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We love the amazingly-named Elizabeth Sweetheart in Buzz (page 13) this week. Elizabeth is the Green Lady, having worn nothing but this colour for 30 years. Her hair is green, too, and her home’s interior is, you’ve guessed it, green. I can’t imagine loving any colour enough to fill my whole wardrobe with it, but I guess it does make it easier to decide what to wear! Speaking of colours to wear, have you seen the latest trend about finding your ‘colour season’? It turns out we each have a palette of colours that suit us best, depending on our skin tone and hair and eye colour. What season is a very pasty brunette? I wondered, taking a quiz online. Turns out, I’m a ‘true winter,’ and so is Amber…

WE PAY FOR EACH PHOTO USED Timmy, Rusty and Millie enjoyed kayaking with me while camping at Lakes Entrance, Victoria. Sue Brown, Cranbourne, Vic I just love the look on my granddaughter’s dog Harlow’s face as she watches me do the ironing. Bev Carra, Seaford Rise, SA My brother-in-law Pete and I joined the Beatles crossing Abbey Rd, at Madame Tussauds London. Do you think we fit in well? Helen Savage, Niddrie, Vic $50 CASH WHAT’S ODD? PUZZLE HOW TO WIN... This image has been taken from the film The Good Girl. We have tinkered with the image and added something that doesn’t appear in the original scene (3). Write which object doesn’t belong only on the entry coupon and you could be a winner. Turn to entry coupon (p50)…

Charmaine feels most at home when she’s splashing around in her tail Charmaine Low, 42, Belmont North, NSW Gliding through the crystal clear water, I was in awe of the colourful fish swimming alongside me. This is incredible, I beamed, as I swam to the surface for some air. I’ve always felt most at home near the ocean. As a little girl my favourite film was The Little Mermaid, and I dreamed of being able to glide underwater and move as effortlessly as Ariel. Aged eight, my dad, Craig, took me and my sisters Rochelle, then six, and Bonnie, four, to the beach in Culburra, NSW, as he did every school holidays. While he surfed the big waves, my sisters and I hung by the shore, living out our…

Haleigh was cooking dinner when the unthinkable happened Haleigh Tubbs, 23 Stirring pasta in the bubbling pan, I heard my little girl Brooklyn, then 20 months, playing in the next room. It was December 2023, and Brooklyn had started saying a few words, including ‘Mumma’. She’d recently taken her first steps too and I adored watching my smiley baby grow into a sassy toddler. Now, as I whipped up her favourite meal, macaroni and cheese, she sounded happy playing on her little activity table. My fiancé Derrick, who I’d met while pregnant, dozed in our bedroom. With the pasta nearly cooked, I grabbed the strainer from the cupboard behind me. Turning back towards the stove, I saw Brooklyn. Without me noticing, she’d toddled in, pulled open a bottom drawer and…

Rosie never imagined the danger lurking outside her home Rosie Niessen, 27 Strolling along the seashore with my boyfriend, Simon, then 44, I smiled. Who knew life could be so good? I thought, as I peered into his blue eyes. When I’d met Simon I was 21, and he was old enough to be my dad. But we’d just clicked. When I fell pregnant two months into our whirlwind romance, Simon was reluctant to be a father, and he broke things off. He was at our daughter Lily’s* birth, though, and wanted to give things another try so we could be a family. And for a while, everything was great. But when Simon refused to change Lily’s nappies or dress her, I became fed up. ‘I need a few…

By day Jack wrangles wildlife, by night he becomes The King Jack Gatto, 33, Leopold, Vic Walking up the footpath to my front door in Geelong, Vic, I could hear music blasting from inside my house. ‘You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog,’ Elvis crooned, as I turned my key in the lock and dropped my schoolbag by the door. ‘Dad, I’m home,’ I called out. Elvis ‘The King’ Presley was my dad Gene’s favourite artist, and almost every day he’d pop on an old Elvis record. Aged 16, I’d been listening to Elvis since I was a kid, and had grown to love his music too. ‘This one’s my favourite. It’s called “Solitaire”,’ Dad, then 46, told me, as Elvis sang a heartbreaking ballad. ‘You know, I can sing…