Happy Australia Day! Or if you want to sound like a local, Happy 'Stralia Day Maate. You should probably go make Lamingtons or Pavlova or eat a meat pie to celebrate. We however had Pumpkin Pie Pancakes for brunch and watched out the window as it rained, then pretended to clear up, then rained, then pretended to clear up. Around 5 we got sick of waiting for the weather to cooperate and headed into the city to sit by the water and drink cider and watch some jazz - the rain stayed away. Then we … [Read more...]
Things and stuff and more things… SOPA
Stuff-n-Things Thursday is here a day early, and although there are a few things I had to show you this week they are on hold until next week due to SOPA. As I 'live' online these days I feel that I have a bit of a responsibility to at least tip my hat to the worldwide internet protest happening right now. Let's note up-front that I have not done near enough research on this subject, these are just a few things I've come across recently. The 'Stop Online Piracy Act' or SOPA's full … [Read more...]
Things and stuff and more things…Saturday
Things and stuff and more things Thursday is being brought to you this week by Saturday. Thursday was busy with Stove-top Mac-n-Cheese. It happens. Anyway, here's some stuff I came across 'round the interwebz traps this week... Starting as always with the food: This is a really good resource [via Sarah Wilson] on the amount of fructose in various fruits, why this is important, and what too much fructose will do to your health. I've been a bit guilty lately on relying mainly on apples in … [Read more...]
All social-ed out
So if I look at a recommendation on StumbleUpon and pin it to Pinterest, then tweet that out to Twitter and post it on Facebook, will Flickr feel left out and a bit like Baby in a corner? Oh right, Hunch and LinkedIn are off making out in a closet somewhere and YouTube keeps knocking on the door. Bit.ly is just sitting watching it all and Delicious is getting high in the garden. Have had an iPhone [an old hand-me-down one, no need for any level of awe] for a total of about a week and still not … [Read more...]
Talking about the weather, sort of, not really
So we have been on this 'started out as detox / became a way of eating every day / lost a stack of weight without really trying' diet thing for over 6 months now...and although it hasn't really done what it was supposed to do I am now really little [horizontally now too rather than just vertically] for the first time in my life and it has really just become a healthy way of life more than a diet but now it is winter... ...and all I want to do is bake and eat loaves and loaves of bread with … [Read more...]
Arm-holes, A-R-M
Most trends come and go pretty quickly and I don’t tend to comment too much... [although the 80’s resurgence is overstaying it’s welcome a bit, and really, if you are old enough to have worn the stuff the first time around, tread lightly on this go.] So I snickered quietly at Jeggings last winter [you know, the leggings PRINTED with pockets, seams and a zip flap to look like jeans], rolled my eyes silently at the black canvas sneakers with black socks and dresses last summer, and just shook … [Read more...]