Hot Food, Spicy Stories
When I was very young the house next door to us was sold and we had high levels of anticipation as to who would be our new neighbours. One day they arrived. And it wasn’t a subtle arrival either. They were a family of six children, three boys and three girls. They were very loud [...]
Recently at Alfie’s primary school a boy was injured on the playground equipment. He sustained quite a nasty cut to his face and I’m not sure of all the facts but I believe he did need a general anaesthetic with plastic surgery to repair the gash. The playground was immediately closed ‘until further notice’. An [...]
When I was 15 I thought I needed a job. Part-time work was available for teens in most retail stores for Thursday night/Saturday morning shifts. (This was back in the day when weekend trading was only permitted on Saturdays from 8am until 12md. I went to my local shopping mall and walked from store to [...]
I can’t quite believe it but Hotly Spiced has just turned one! Before I started Hotly Spiced I had only ever read one blog and that was a real estate blog and now I read hundreds of blogs and none of them are about real estate! My first tentative steps into blogging were lacklustre, unremarkable [...]
Last night was Alfie’s school’s Year 2 Social Evening and the organisers chose to hold it at the local lawn bowls club. I was desperate and dateless as Carl had double-booked himself and ended up in a seminar on the other side of town so I walked in hardly knowing a soul, adorned myself with [...]
When we moved to Australia just after Abba had been here for their ‘Arrival’ tour and Elvis had sadly passed away, Dad had more overseas business trips and took mum with him. We were left with more hired help. One of them was Mrs Hull and she was really, really old. She was probably only [...]
My father worked for multi-national companies and as a consequence was frequently away on overseas business trips. Sometimes my mother was able to travel with him so we would be left in the care of hired help. I don’t know where mum got them from, probably out of the paper, but they were all odd [...]
From the age of four Archie had episodes where he complained of ‘a sore tummy’. I took him to various doctors and asked if it could be his appendix but they all said he was too young and it was probably just ‘a niggly appendix’. The ‘niggles’ came and went but one Monday morning when [...]
I’m sure you are all by now bored with the updates of my internet woes but sadly, they remain unresolved and I had a rather traumatic conversation with Raj from customer service who works for the internet provider. Raj’s first mistake was to not look at the notes in my file that would clearly state [...]
A couple of years ago my birthday fell on a Saturday. A few days before, Carl asked if I would like to go out for dinner with a bunch of friends. I told him I would prefer to have a dinner party and Carl found that astounding, wondering why I would want to go to [...]
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