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Sydney

Yummy yummy… too many of these are in my tummy

July 15, 2008

These carrot cupcakes with cream cheese and lime icing are pretty yummy.  I baked them for a birthday, and again for a “welcome to my house dear guest” thing.  They are from Nigella’s Domestic Goddess book and I believe they are well worth the effort. Tweet Delicious Digg Facebook Ping Stumble

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Good morning

July 12, 2008

This blog has not had any pictures for a long time.  Here’s one. Yes, random. I know.  I was just interested in the way the light played on this glass of cordial I had this morning after my walk. That’s all. Tweet Delicious Digg Facebook Ping Stumble

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Victory!

July 11, 2008

So, after months and months and months of trying to get my lefty comments posted on the Daily Telegraph website, I finally got one up. I have seriously posted about 30 comments to that site, all of them rational, well written arguments (of course!) outlining how perhaps the article in question is either extremely reactionary, [...]

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It’s all in the leaves

July 8, 2008

I had my tea leaves read today for a story I was doing for work. It was really interesting.  There is something about the ritual of tea which is all encompassing (plus I got amazing scones)… and the place we went did a fantastic brew of Earl Grey. Even though I’m a super skeptic, I [...]

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I’ve got my baby back.

July 6, 2008

Finally have my computer back in my loving arms.  After picking it up once, getting it home and finding it was STILL BROKEN WITH THE SAME PROBLEMS I SENT IT IN WITH. You can imagine my anger.  I verbally castrated the manager of the repair centre and they quickly fixed it and returned it to [...]

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Life isn’t like the movies.

June 28, 2008

In the movies, my computer would be fixed now.  At least it would if it was a movie where I had written the script. This week I had several examples that showed me that the movies are just FULL OF LIES. 1. At my normal cafe at work. Waiting amongst a crowd for my skim [...]

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A blog post… well, don’t mind if I do then.

June 14, 2008

It’s very strange living without a computer and the internet at home.  I find it a challenge to do the most basic things. Like figure out how much money is in my account. Find a recipe to cook something interesting for dinner. Keep track of how Britney Spears is doing. Write my Mills and Boon [...]

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Computer disaster (again…)

June 8, 2008

My laptop has died.  I think it’s the hard drive.  So there won’t be much blogging from me at the moment.  I am in mourning because I think I might have lost everything on the hard drive so bub-bye to lots of my photographs and music AGAIN. How annoying. The laptop is only six months old [...]

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How? Why?

June 1, 2008

Lately I have become obsessed with the stats page on my Typepad account. Apparently, on average, 20 unique visitors come to my blog a day!  That might seem really small, but considering I have done nothing to promote it and my mum only visits once every few days and most of my friends have forgotten [...]

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Decisions, decisions…

June 1, 2008

It can be tricky deciding what to wear. But after you have drunk a few of these; it becomes fairly inconsequential. Went bowling last night for a friend's birthday (at a place full of neon lights, with tassels hanging from the ceiling and a soundtrack of pure cheesy pop), and then went on to a [...]

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Now I’ll never be wise.

May 29, 2008

I went to the dentist today to hear the inevitable news that I have to have my wisdom teeth out.  Should be great. The positive side is I have found a really nice dentist who I don't want to kick.  She's kinda like that happy doctor character on Grey's Anatomy, except less annoying. It was [...]

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A looooong photo walk…

May 25, 2008

Yesterday I walked to Kirribilli Markets, then over the bridge, over the Cahill Walk, through the Botanic Gardens and all the way to the Art Gallery of NSW where I saw the very cool Taisho Chic exhibition, which explored the conflicts in Japan’s emerging modernity through art during the 1920s and 30s.  I really recommend [...]

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People think I’m strange sometimes

May 21, 2008

People think I am strange sometimes.  Understandably, my coworkers think I am strange because I do bizarre things, send them links to stories from the Border Mail as if they will care, sometimes randomly bring in baked goods, blabber on incessantly and talk about politics and Big Brother in the same stream of consciousness sentence. [...]

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A plus size lardy assed rant

May 17, 2008

Shopping malls are horrible horrible places.  They trap you with their convoluted carparking, convoluted floor plans and lifts and escalators filled with convulsing tantrum-throwing children.  Not to mention the flickering fluorescent lighting. But being a PWINAAS (person who is not at all small), it is even more depressing than whatever existential crisis is making little [...]

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The John Winston Howard memorial walk

May 11, 2008

I’ve been going on lots of long walks this week (after being supremely lazy for quite a while), and today I did what I like to call the “John Winston Howard memorial stroll” all around Kirribilli, past the gates to Kirribilli House and Admirality House, down around the bottom of the bridge, then heading back [...]

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