I'm going to a Hobbit party on Friday, and my kids want to make my feet look hairier than they already are!

Do your children really want to apply to your feet "Rogaine", whatever that is supposed to be, so that you can appear to be more Hobbit - ish?  

At this party I am attending on Friday, I am also supposed to narrate (or at least do character voices) for a skit my daughter has prepared for the birthday girl.  Unfortunately Gollum is not in the skit, so I can't do my best Gollum impersonation!

In your best impersonation of Gollum, would you have yelled "my preciousss", whilst brandishing your wedding ring at the partygoers?  

Perhaps I should have done that at my wedding but instead, we chose to have "Only the Beginning of the Adventure" from the Narnia soundtrack as the bridal processional song.

Yes, a marriage can indeed be something of an adventure, when on our honeymoon, fifty-five years ago, we were left stranded in a Toowoomba motel on a May public holiday when my husband fell ill with the 'flu. 

I nearly got myself and my (at that time) fiancé stranded on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland when we missed a flight back to Melbourne - thankfully though, there was another one a couple of hours later!  And she still married me!

At 6.30 pm on New Year's Eve in 2006 we took a Qantas flight from Sydney to Antarctica, reaching Terra Nova & returning to Sydney at 6.30 am, on New Year's Day, 2007, only to find my husband had been televised at midnight, holding up a celebratory glass of champagne.  

At midnight, I will hopefully be sound asleep.

Sometimes when reading the newspapers, I am in danger of falling asleep!  

I lost my head and it rolled away down the street. I only found out where it ended up because its location was in the newspaper. 

Word on the street has it, that the news of your losing your head so dramatically is somewhat premature, and the amateur sleuths had better look elsewhere to find the owner of the head.

@waggawerewolf27 dramatically converted the tale of a lost head into a very intriguing story.

It is quite intriguing how figurative expressions of speech like "losing one's head" can end up being taken so literally.    

My tragic tale of losing my head seems to have be taking a life of its own! The original connotation was literal, but it's also fair play if you interpreted it as figurative!