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Short Stop Donuts. Retail Underwhelm.
Sydney is one of those places where you can simply walk out of a train station on the weekend without any firm plans and then suddenly find yourself in front of a sign like this: Preschooler SSG were making the most of the sun on Sunday when we decided that donuts for afternoon tea would…
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Life This Week 14/11/2016: Exams.
Exams. Ironically, I’ve learned more about them from the school of life than I did when I actually sat them. I completed my last formal exam in 2007 before spending the next three years going through various ongoing assessments before getting my letters and my life back. At least that’s what it felt like at…
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Christmas Gifting. Kinderling.
It’s only fortysomething sleeps ’til Christmas and I’ve been putting that festive mug of mine to good use as I clutch its warming tea filled (Barry’s Irish Breakfast for the record) self while I navigate various sites in search of Christmas gifts. Cosmo UK As always, I’ve somehow managed to gift myself something rather early…
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Recent Dinners and Friday Frocks.
Source unknown We’ve made it to Friday after a week that has been particularly long for most of the world, I suspect. As the wise but sadly departing President Obama said, ‘regardless of which side you were on in the election, regardless of whether your candidate won or lost, the sun [will] come up in…
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Lovin’ Life 10/11/2016: Spring Summer. At the Zoo (Again).
The taste of summer we had over the weekend just gone was enough (literally) to put some colour into my cheeks. We appear to be back to grey skies, wind and rain for the moment but that hint of a tan I see when I look in the mirror or down at my arms reminds…
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The End of the Beginning But Hopefully Not the Beginning of the End.
There’s a rather large elephant in this room we call Earth. He’s just been elected the 45th President of the United States and quite frankly, it would make me physically ill to even type his name. I am, after all, practically everything he abhors – a migrant, a woman, in possession of a university qualification…
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Oh Deer. Housekeeping. ‘Last Night In Montreal’ by Emily St. John Mandel.
Oh deer, how could I not put this Christmas mug into my trolley this morning? It’s 47 days until Christmas so I figured that if I wanted to get my money’s worth ($3 to be precise, at Woolworths), now would be the right time to buy and then use a festive mug. It’s ‘new bone…
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Life This Week 7/11/2016: Flowers Around Me.
Flowers have a language of their own with different species having special symbolic associations in different cultures. For me, it’s not so much these different meanings that stick in my mind but rather general feelings, imprints and memories that I relate to the flowers that were part of the scene where a particularly significant event…
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Potts Point and La Esmeralda.
Potts Point is one of those parts of Sydney best experienced on foot and if the weather happens to be sunny with just enough warmth and zero humidity? Even better. There’s shade and light both literally from the graceful trees that arch over the roads but also similar tonal contrasts in the architecture, the…
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Friday Drinks #3: Bucket Lists, Arnott’s Assorted Creams and Vale My Favourite Yoghurt.
Starting off today’s Friday Drinks post with a new drink I’m not sure I’ll ever be drinking on any day of the week, let alone Friday to be honest. Coke Ginger?? I wonder where marketing got the idea for this from? A unique twist on limited edition Christmas products? A comeback to pumpkin spice from…