Hot Food, Spicy Stories
I have a good friend in blogging, Tania, who has a blog, My Kitchen Stories. She’s a professional chef with plenty of years of experience (although that doesn’t mean she’s still not in her youth), and not only does her blog have the most wonderful user-friendly recipes, she usually has a great story to tell [...]
Yes, this post has Archie written all over it. I had a really busy day scheduled today so wanted to organise dinner ahead of time. I didn’t want to break the tradition of a Sunday night family dinner (and I always schedule an early dinner so the family night of significance is over in time [...]
When I was pregnant with Alfie, some well intentioned individuals (and I won’t say who because my in-laws aren’t really that bad) made a magnanimous gesture and suggested that they look after Archie and Arabella for a week during the school holidays as a way of helping me out. ‘You’re pregnant honey-one. You need to [...]
When I was growing up we didn’t go to the movies very often. Going to ‘the pictures’ was a real treat. You dressed up for this very special occasion and arrived at the theatre in plenty of time to purchase your tickets that were for allocated seating only. A very polite usher in a smart [...]
I’m an early riser but that doesn’t mean I’m showered, dressed and looking glamorous by 9am. No, sometimes I like to take my time and just progress with a few projects before attending to my personal appearance. But I’m thinking I’m going to have to change tactics because too often I’m being sprung. A few [...]
It was the August school holidays and I was 12 years old. My mother told Em and I that in a few days the two of us were going on a plane to Christchurch to stay on our cousins sheep farm for the holidays. I didn’t hear anything after the word ‘plane’. It was all [...]
It’s incredible that a TV show that first aired in the UK in 1975 with a run of only 12 episodes is still almost as popular and well-known today as it was 35 years ago. So you would think that when a resort promotes itself as, ‘a small exclusive luxury resort’, it would recognise what [...]
My friend Lisa has just been on the phone to me distraught to the max because she’d just finished a telephone conversation with her doctor’s receptionist and that receptionist ‘used the ‘f’ word’. All she’d wanted was a quick phone call making a simple appointment with her obstetrician (lovely man, aren’t they all? What a [...]
After last week’s school reunion [see 'High School Reunion' Post dated May 11, 2011] I knew it wouldn’t be long before I’d hear from Mongrel Murray. Over the years he’s really taken a liking to Carl, slapping him on the back when he sees him and throwing out lines like, ‘love you like a brother’. [...]
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