EITHER you're a breakfast-in-bed person, or you're not.
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I'm not.
Crumbs! I have long been an avid, anti-breakfast-in-bed campaigner and it's really got next to nothing to do with food debris!!
I pride myself on my non-neat-freak approach to good-enough is near-enough housekeeping.
I wrote the book. If I didn't, I should have done.
It has more to do with scolding, hot tea. It's not guaranteed to stay put on the breakfast tray when our large lap dog jumps up to see what's been dished up on Mother's Day morning.
Balanced breakfast; it is never!
In my short career, I never made a great waitress, either.
Unlike other rooms around the house, opinions are strongly divided on what we do in our bedrooms.
Breakfast trays are one thing but television is another.
I only agreed to get a small TV in the boudoir fairly recently.
It had everything to do with Netflix and the rising competition for our only TV screen in the house.
Bingeing Nordic Noir is far better when you can fall asleep in your own bed under the covers right after the credits roll on Episode 10. (Insert moody, instrumental music here.)
Alternatively, a documentary will rock you off to the land of Nod in no time.
You will be dreaming about switching to a raw food diet, radically raising your exercise game and being a better all-round human being.
Of course, then you'll wake up in a cold sweat wondering why you just had the worst sleep ever.
I can, however, highly recommend The Game Changers; Fyre: The Greatest Party that Never Happened; Jiro Dreams of Sushi; Stink; and Knock Down The House - the fly on the wall view of the campaigns of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Amy Vilela, Cori Bush, and Paula Jean Swearengin.
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So while many of us may be getting into bed with Netflix or SBS on Demand or ABC iview, another company is thinking outside the box.
An entertainment group is pulling up the sheets and taking your night-time viewing, next-level.
This summer cinephiles will be able to watch a movie under the stars in Melbourne ... in a bed.
Less drive-in, more lie-in!
It comes courtesy of the Mov'in Bed outdoor cinema, which launched in Sydney during 2016.
The first session sold out in two weeks with four seasons run since.
Now St Kilda Beach is getting its own silver screen soiree from January 4 to February 23 next year.
The cinema will bring in 150 queen size beds with LED-lit bedside tables, pillows and a blanket in case it gets fresh. (In a St Kilda summer, there's every chance you could get four seasons in one screening!) The beds ... can fit up to three people. Call me old-fashioned, but isn't three a crowd?!
Mov'in Bed cinema will bring in 150 queen size beds with LED-lit bedside tables, pillows and a blanket in case it gets fresh. (In a St Kilda summer, there's every chance you could get four seasons in one screening!)
The beds, which range from $40 for a single to $74 for a couple, can fit up to three people.
Call me old-fashioned, but isn't three a crowd?!
Should one of you happen to roll out of bed, there is a designated picnic area on the site.
Anyhow, all of that lying around, watching old movies, is bound to make people hungry.
No problem.
A range of pop-up restaurants will deliver a variety of food straight to your glowing bedside table.
There is also wine and beer, popcorn and the candy bar.
Thrills and spills.
Here's cheers to that!
Everyone knows you're not supposed to snack while lying flat out on your back but you can already hear your fellow cinema-goers.
"Lie down, in front!"