Simple Salad

While I am well aware that you can’t make friends with salad, you can pretty easily make a meal with it. I am fond of a robust salad as a meal. Especially in summer, but, really, during the whole year. Something loaded up with a mixture of textures and sharp taste. A big salad, if [...]

The Business of Business Class

I unexpectedly got to try out the new Virgin domestic Business Class yesterday. I rarely fly Business Class on domestic flights. It seems distinctly not worth the money or wasting the points on an upgrade for a flight of one or two hours. For a trip to Perth, sure, but otherwise not unless I get [...]

Pesto

So far as Workaholic Single Person Foods go, pesto great staple. Light, easy to make and tasty. Toss it with some pasta, use it on pizza, spread it on bread, put a couple of spoonfuls into a lackluster sauce, or with some vegetables. One of my friends regularly makes a large jar at the weekend [...]

Walk-in

When I moved into this house I took the doors off the main wardrobe to (a) make the room seem bigger; and (b) to see the clothes. The room isn’t small, but it’s long and narrow and the wardrobe was built-in some time after original construction and so makes it even narrower. There is about [...]

Shoe Gush

Beware, Shoe Gushing ahead. Meet my new favourite shoes: While I have a far greater number of high heels and mega high heels than I should given my Old Lady Foot, the practicalities do mean that flats are very important to me. I’m always looking for pairs that are dainty rather than clunky, cushioned but [...]

eBay Sale Time

Yes, with all the shopping I’ve been doing in the sales over the last couple of weeks, it s time to clear out a small part of the wardrobe. So I’ve put a batch of new things up on Ebay. Then I’ll be taking a bunch of other things to the Op Shop. There are [...]

Backing Away from the Animal Print

I rather like a good animal print. I actually think leopard print should be a wardrobe staple. Provided it’s not in legging form, of course: There is no excuse, ever, for animal print leggings. None. Too many cases of (leopard print) tights are not pants should not condemn an otherwise versatile family of prints though. [...]

Variation on a Recipe

I enjoying cooking. Am I good cook? Who the hell knows. Am I confident cook? Yes. Baking aside – and I really don’t bake very much at all because (a) I don’t really eat baked goods that are not bread; and (b) I live alone so who the hell else is going to eat them [...]

2011: Travel by the Numbers

Trips                           9 Flights                        23 Hotel rooms             7 Rental cars               4 Limos                         1 Other Countries visited      4 Countries visited for 1st time         1 Other Australian States visited     2 Visits to Queensland          5 Months travelled in      8 Nights away from home     37 Flight legs spent in economy on a jam-packed A380 with a broken toilet            [...]

Dishes tell the Tale

If you want to know the story of my week, any week, of any year, the best place to look is the ‘dirty’ side of the sink. And yes, there is always, bar a couple of hours some time during each weekend, a ‘dirty’ side of the sink. I don’t have a dishwasher, and I [...]