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This photo is of my Mother, and was taken in 1967. I think she must be sitting on a lawn in the Wairarapa, in New Zealand. How cool are the Hydrangeas? Things I love about my mother: her compassion and...
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I’m really loving using my old Pentax ME. It used to belong to my Father, and I used it for seventh form photography twelve or so years ago with very mixed results… I remember spending a lot of time...
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I have loved William Gibson’s last three books. There’s something really fanciful about each that makes me just laugh, but some of the spook stuff is probably spot on, and they are, indeed, (as Gibson...
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This is the cutest thing I have seen in a long time, people! If you love is so much that you want it in paper form, you can buy a poster version of it here. Filed under: art
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That’s it. Christmas is off! Who needs Christmas when you spend the week before cooking the most amazing food? Case in point: last night’s chocolate sorbet. I guess I can’t decry Christmas completely,...
View Articlethe goriest of fruit
Since getting my ice cream maker at Christmas, my holy grail has been to find fresh Blood Oranges so that I can make David Lebovitz’s Blood Orange Sorbet. When my sister was up from Melbourne I scoured...
View Articlebalsamic strawberry ice cream
I hosted the party to end all parties in my wee house on the weekend. There were ice cream flavours a plenty: chilli chocolate, cinnamon, thai basil, white chocolate sorbet, and plum sorbet with grand...
View ArticleGirl in Dunedin
I went to New Zealand in February to visit my parents, who live just north of Dunedin in a small town called Waikouaiti. I was actually a pretty illfated trip – we experienced both illness and...
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The Sydney Finders Keepers Markets are on tonight and tomorrow at Carriageworks. I love that they start on the Friday evening, as I can’t think of a better way to start my weekend than by milling...
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How to accurately measure your insole I have tried several times to buy shoes online. The results are usually pretty disastrous. The shoes always turn out to be too large. I sometimes have equally...
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Would you believe I’ve lived in Australia for 7 years and have never been swimming in this side of the Pacific? This photo was taken by Dave one summer at Gordon’s Bay, and it’s probably the closest...
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One of my favourite reading finds this year was Agnes and the Hitman by Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer. It’s a Romance novel and an Action novel, but mostly it’s a novel about food. Agnes is a curvy...
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in which our heroine discovers romance novels and steampunk… * Black Watch – Connie Willis (Time Travel, the London Blitz, World War II, History) * All Clear – Connie Willis (Time Travel, the London...
View ArticleGirl in Papatowai
One of my favourite places in the entire world is a place called Papatowai in the Catlins, south of Dunedin. We spent Easters there when I was a child, and I still love to visit whenever I go back to...
View Articletop live music moments of 2011
The National, Enmore Theatre I got to see The National twice in 2011 – once at The Enmore Theatre and once at Harvest Festival (it was indeed, as promised, a civilised gathering). Both shows, Matt...
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I love my little house that I share with my friends Beth and Allison. My cat is very happy there, and this picture sums up for me how lovely it is living in a comfortable house with creative people...
View ArticleSydney Food Gleanings – the Inner West
If you are in that part of Sydney known as the Inner West, these are some of my favourite places to eat. Go on… make a day of it. Cornersmith Illawarra Road, Marrickville A simple menu of poached eggs...
View ArticleHow to travel New Zealand for free
New Zealand is a beautiful shape. It’s not called the land of the long white cloud for nothing. As NZ Poet Cilla McQueen described it, it’s just a long green spine, sticking out of the ocean. The...
View Articlelentil hotpot
Lentil Hotpot 1 cup puy lentils 2 Tbsp olive oil 1 onion, diced 2-3 cloves of garlic 2 Tbsp coriander stems, finely chopped 1 carrot, diced 2 stalks celery, diced 1 zucchini, diced 1 bay leaf thyme...
View ArticleHow to Hold a Great Garage Sale
Garage Sales are brilliant for so many reasons. You get to meet your neighbours, hang out with your friends, feel like a part of a community, get rid of all the things you don’t want, and make some...
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