OPINION: Ugh. I keep looking at that big top up at the Gala St reserve and listening to the ads on the radio about that circus, writes Sarah McCarthy in this week's Uptown Girl.

OPINION: Wearing my pearls slung over my shoulder like Chewbacca's gunbelt is the only thing that has got me through today, writes Sarah McCarthy in this week's Uptown Girl.

OPINION: My screenplay, por vous, writes Sarah McCarthy in this week's Uptown Girl.

OPINION: So it appears I may have inadvertently given myself dreadlocks. And by "appears" I mean "I'm too frightened to actually look" and by "inadvertently" I really mean "accidentally-on-purpose", writes Sarah McCarthy in this week's Uptown Girl.

As sure as an earwig in your nectarine, so it is February and Shakespeare in the Park time, writes Sarah McCarthy in this week's Uptown Girl.

OPINION: In the interests of doing a bit more wriggling, and perhaps subconsciously in a vague effort to knock the constant jiggling of my various bits and pieces on the head, Mr mr and I splashed out on a badminton set this week, writes Sarah McCarthy in this week's Uptown Girl.

OPINION: Damn and it's almost February, writes Sarah McCarthy in this week's Uptown Girl.

OPINION: So being a girl isn't always the best fun, writes Sarah McCarthy in this week's Uptown Girl.

OPINION: So Hillary Clinton – or as my mother once famously called her, Mrs America – was coming to Noo Zild to pat us on the head and probably go bungy jumping – although now her trip has been postponed because of the earthquake in Haiti, writes Sarah McCarthy in this week's Uptown Girl.

OPINION: I can't believe I'm back at work. It hardly seems fair. I honestly think I could do a much better job if I got to stay at home and read a book and not have to do my work at all, writes Sarah McCarthy in this week's Uptown Girl.

OPINION: So I'm still on holiday but thankfully I've managed to get the intermanet working and am sitting with my laptop, frowning at the massive bank of clouds that are blanketing Wanaka, where I've been staying for a week or so, writes Sarah McCarthy in this week's Uptown Girl.

OPINION: Felis Navidad-ed, writes Sarah McCarthy in this week's Uptown Girl.

OPINION: I was watching telly the other morning – I've got a morbid fascination with Paul Henry and it's making me late for work (off to the naughty chair) but at least I'm eating breakfast (gold star and scratch-and-sniff Mr Men sticker), writes Sarah McCarthy in this week's Uptown Girl.

OPINION: Another year, another work-do and this year everyone's back at the races. And I mean everyone, writes Sarah McCarthy in this week's Uptown Girl.

OPINION: It's hardly December and I'm already exhausted, writes Sarah McCarthy in this week's Uptown Girl.

OPINION: This wind is doing my head in. I've been trying really hard not to moan to you all about it (people who moan about the weather have a special place in hell reserved for them as far as I'm concerned) but right now I couldn't care less, writes Sarah McCarthy in this week's Uptown Girl.

OPINION: I've been thinking about chocolate a lot - helped, no doubt, by the Peppy Chew sitting on my desk, writes Sarah McCarthy in this week's Uptown Girl.

OPINION: So I'm going to a 21st this weekend. My little second-cousin-niece thing person – not so little any more, obviously – is having a classic hall party and I get to go, writes Sarah McCarthy in this week's Uptown Girl.

OPINION: Well, isn't it lovely to see Invercargill on the telly again, writes Sarah McCarthy in this week's Uptown Girl.

OPINION: So this is me jumping on the bandwagon – first I hitch up my pants and then try to find a toe-hold on the back, writes Sarah McCarthy in this week's Uptown Girl.

OPINION: So on Monday I got to work and said to my office pal Fanny, "Do you think I can wear these leggings with this top?" And as I looked down upon myself, lo and behold I was wearing two different shoes, writes Sarah McCarthy in this week's Uptown Girl.

OPINION: I have written a song. It's called I Told You So and it goes to the tune of the Dr Who theme, writes Sarah McCarthy in this week's Uptown Girl.

OPINION: So I've been looking around for some summery sandals for when the weather decides to put its big girl pants on and starts to behave itself, writes Sarah McCarthy in this week's Uptown Girl.

OPINION: I went to the dentist last week and had a bit of a drillin', walked out the door with my cellphone ringing, writes Sarah McCarthy in this week's Uptown Girl.

OPINION: hings have been altogether too nice around here for my liking, so lucky for me I woke up this morning with the song Baby, baby, don't get hooked on me running through my head, writes Sarah McCarthy in this week's Uptown Girl.

OPINION: I'm actually really busy, for once instead of saying I'm really busy, and then just hiding at home watching Outrageous Fortune and making and then absorbing bowl after bowl of guacamole, writes Sarah McCarthy in this week's Uptown Girl.