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Luxe Bakery, Newtown.
One of the unexpected ‘up’ sides to the last few days was that I got to take Mr SSG to an area Sydney I know well from work but we never really get around to visiting now that I no longer work there. Luxe Bakery is in the heart of Newtown. To me, Newtown is…
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A Cup Of Tea For Bleak Times.
Are you in your comfy chair with a cup of strong tea? How was your day? I’ve got lots to say and unfortunately very little of it is particularly fun, happy or positive. I’m trying to find the right words and to put things in the right order. I hope it all makes sense. On…
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Heeding the Call Of Our Australian Lambassador on Australia Day.
How was your Australia Day? Besides stinking hot and airless if you were in Sydney today. I made the pilgrimage to work to the soundtrack of Triple J’s pre Hottest 100 party on the radio. The Hume Highway Harbour Bridge looked resplendent in a sea of eerily quiet road. I’m not being a martyr or…
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The Jamie Cookbook Remains Elusive. I Am Forced To Improvise and Conclude With A Cryptic Message.
Well, I was still on my mission to find Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals today. I know there are rumours that perhaps 3 course meals cannot be served in half an hour without the assistance of a production crew (thanks for the warning, Brasilian_Babe) but once I put my mind to finding a cookbook, I find…
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The Fashion Pedigree of Polo Shirts.
There haven’t been many moments that I’ve been fashion forward in my life. However, this week – Glynis Traill-Nash and I are clearly seeing Eye To Eye in the Wardrobe 101 stakes. I was reading this week’s Style supplement in the SMH and found that polo shirts are a Wardrobe 101 endorsed staple item of clothing. The…
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A Domain Of One’s Own – www.sydneyshopgirl.com Has Arrived.
There’s change happening all over the place in SSG’s corner of the world. Just to let you know that I’ve bitten the bullet and bought my own domain. This is the address: www.sydneyshopgirl.com Original, no? Anyway, it could take up to 3 days for the transition to be complete. But don’t worry, you’ll all get…
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Liquid Gold, Newcastle.
Lazing by the beach in Newcastle provided a great opportunity for me to play around with hipstamatic on my iPhone 4. It’s got some really cool new features and the iPhone 4 camera is a huge improvement on the previous generation’s ( flash for a start and reverse cam too). The resolution of photos taken…
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Life Is Good Award from Thrive On Novelty
Thank you Louise from Thrive On Novelty for giving me this award. Louise and I have only discovered each other’s blogs in the last few weeks. I really look forward to Louise’s take on beauty, fashion and celebrities. We’re both Team (Olivia) Palermo. The rules of the tag are: 1. Thank and link back to…
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Hope and Prayers For Queensland.
The luxury of being online and relaxing on a Tuesday evening after work doesn’t extend to many people in Queensland today. www.mail.com The sheer volume of water and the speed of its destruction isn’t something I can fathom here in my dry loungeroom. The uncertainty for the loved ones of the 72 people unaccounted for…
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Festival First Night 2011. Funky Sounds and Fruity Water.
Sydney’s Festival First Night is my kind of street event. It just says Sydney to me much more than the NYE festivities that tend to end in a messy mix of broken glass and rowdy crowds trying to find taxis home. Central areas in the CBD are cordoned off entirely for pedestrian use and there…