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By Burley Griff

July 8, 2011

Gumtrees with silvery eucalyptus leaves. Red dirt. Blue lake. Blue sky. Very ‘Australian’ I guess. Tweet Delicious Digg Facebook Ping Stumble

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Everything in Canberra is the “national” something or other. It’s weird, because in many cases, the Sydney or Melbourne non-”national” versions of attractions are bigger… like the zoos, for example. So I sort of had dismissed the botanic gardens here, thinking it would just be some baby-sized eucalpyt glen or something. But I went there [...]

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Aboriginal Tent Embassy

July 6, 2011

The scattered collection of tents, camper vans and a shed, along with protest signs and a campfire, on the lawns of Old Parliament House (as well as a letterbox on a stake hammered into the ground) does look oddly out of place among Canberra’s preened lawns and (mostly bland) buildings. But the Aboriginal Tent Embassy [...]

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Old Parliament House

July 6, 2011

I love old buildings. So Old Parliament House is probably my favorite Canberra building. Dark wood floors, leather seats in the chambers, high ceilings and all. Sure, New Parly has its own special something… it’s big. The roof is made from grass. Etc. But Old Parly has about as much history as you can find [...]

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Carrot Cupcakes

July 6, 2011

I love these carrot cupcakes with lime cream cheese icing! I baked them the other day for the first time in aaaaages. The recipe is from Nigella’s How to Be a Domestic Goddess, and they are basically my favorite cupcake recipe. I was a bit worried I wouldn’t be able to make them again, because [...]

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My newest school

May 6, 2011

When I say that I am currently attending my fourth university, it kind of doesn’t sound as impressive as I had hoped. It sounds a little like I keep getting kicked out for failing (which is totally not true! I’ve never even come close to failing a class, because I am an epic geek!). It’s [...]

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Lake Burley Griffin in the morning

May 6, 2011

I wish I could say that I have been riding my bike a lot. Unfortunately, that would be a lie. A combination of working weird hours over the other side of the city combined with uni has made me fairly car reliant. However, the other morning I went for a bit of a ride on [...]

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Omelette a la Canberra

April 15, 2011

In my new job, I start work at 6am, so I am up before dawn every day. CRAZY. I am only used to being up at that hour when I am seeing it from the other end, after a long night. It’s really strange to be driving to work while the sky is still full [...]

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Two exciting photo related things…

April 5, 2011

The lovely Mark has featured my image on his blog and has picked a wonderful piece of new music to go along with it. Pop on over to his great new blog, Music Sounds Better With a View, which pairs photography and new music together, to have a look and a listen! Thanks for featuring [...]

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Down by Lake Burley Griffin

April 2, 2011

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Suburbia

April 2, 2011

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Black Swans

April 2, 2011

No Natalie Portman. Black swans swim in Lake Burley Griffin, near ANU. Tweet Delicious Digg Facebook Ping Stumble

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Thin Ice

March 27, 2011

It’s already getting coldish here in Canberra… I’ve had such a weird experience of weather over the past couple of years… a couple of years in the tropics, then a couple of weeks of an Australian winter, then a third of a US summer, Fall and a third of winter (with snow and ice!), then [...]

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