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now to decide if I should grow a tea bush or get a house cow
because then my breakfast would be entirely home made. This was my breakfast this morning. Home made bread and home made apricot jam with a cup of tea and the magazine from the weekend Australian. This...
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Dinner
Because tonight is the one night of the year pancakes are a totally acceptable dinner. Mmm pancakes! or pönnukökur to be more correct, since the only type of pancakes this house knows is Icelandic...
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The goings-on
Well. Hanging out with Nemo lots of Clownfish at Reef HQ. I went up to Townsville last week for work and I had planned on putting a few posts up on the nights that I didn’t catch up with dear...
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Semester 1, finished.
My life from the last post until this past Tuesday has looked like this. Books, paper, pens etc covering the study desk kitchen table. It’s been a tough semester as I’ve juggled the renovations,...
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A trip to the farm
I went to The Farm on Sunday and I came back with a boot load of delicious goods and plenty of splinters in my hands (one day, I will actually remember to wear gloves whilst sorting through the...
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Modernteering across Brisbane
Last Sunday, I joined in the company of about 40 people in a Modernteering adventure (a word to describe an “orienteering” adventure where the control points are examples of modernist architecture)...
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Heading west from the Toowoomba range to Millmerran, Queensland
This weekend just gone I took a five day weekend and headed south of the border. Well really more south west but it was definitely across the border. I put on a number of caps for the trip, I was an...
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Country Bakery Slices
After leaving Millmerran it was onto Goondiwindi where I had my first country bakery slice of the trip. The best thing about country bakery slices? The price. $2.50 in Goondiwindi, $2.20 in Narrabri,...
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Stained Glass Shop Windows and Other Details
Having seen the Stained Glass Shop Windows that Mum has been collecting on Flickr. I took some photos of my own during the first half of my trip. On the last day coming through Armidale, Guyra, Glen...
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The Hippeastrums say hello
Well I must say I hadn’t planned on it to be over two months between posts but such it is. In that time uni has been well uni. It’s my last semester and and the two subjects I’m doing are ones that...
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happythankyoumoreplease
watched Happythankyoumoreplease the other week whilst on sick leave and whilst parts were weird, parts were sad and parts were darn funny. There was this one scene that just about summed up a part of...
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A visit to the Royal Tasmania Botanical Gardens
In the family I’m from a stroll round the local Botanical Gardens is always in order when one goes visiting a new town. There’s new plants to see, old ones to admire and just a lovely time strolling...
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Feb-ru-ray, the first ten days but no cake
I’ve got four days left at my current job before I embark on a big change and go off to be an accountant. I’ve made three cakes to farewell others in the last 10 days and I’ll be making another one...
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A Pikey Bream
This is a Pikey bream (Acanthopagrus berda) I made for the little bear as a Christmas present. I have had the denim whales by Mevrouw Walvis and the fish Mimi Kirchner makes saved ever since I first...
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Saying hello from Penang
The last five weeks have been fairly hectic at my new job, which is OK because I had expected it. There has been quite a few nights when I’ve sat down at the laptop and said I really must post an...
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Penang dua
Oh what to say and where to start. I’ve now been home for 2.5 weeks. I went to Penang with a dodgy cough and came home with a dodgy ankle. I only started wearing heels part of the day at work late...
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Patterns and Colour in Penang
We’re going back to Penang in the pictorial sense of things, as my feet are very much still in Brisbane. My internal compass took a while to adjust in Penang or perhaps it was just subject to...
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