"I'll purchase some shiny bauble that will distract her."

She was no more now than a shiny bauble to be sold off to the highest bidder.

Even the idea of swagging a rope of greens or hanging a shiny bauble might be more than a busy person can manage.

It was abandoned three weeks later - another shiny bauble in the Central Australian Desert.

Then it dropped the shiny bauble where it had lain and moved on.

"If you want to go east, you do," Chess said amicably, then reached into his pouch and drew out another shiny bauble.

My toddler-sized daughter was contributing to the mood by quietly saying "balls" every time I gave her a shiny bauble to go back in the box.

But is it fair for them and them alone to be eligible for both of journalism's shiniest baubles?

People flock to shiny new baubles and forget about the old.

After all, how many times had she seen her mother barter both body and soul for a scrap of silk or some shiny bauble?