Blogger Meet-Ups

My first three days in Melbourne were wonderful, filled as they were with friends, food, singing, new shoes, and much laughter. But none of that was why I booked the trip to Melbourne. The real reason was that, last year, a certain Canadian blogger announced that she’d be visiting Australia during her world trip. I [...]

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My very first pet was a rabbit called Heidi. She was very cute, and I loved the way she delicately nibbled carrots from my hand. However, she wasn’t the most friendly or cuddle-able of rabbits, and she once bit a hefty bleeding chunk out of my brother’s finger. I like this Heidi better. This Heidi, [...]

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And so it came to pass that after Thai and The Little Mermaid, cake for breakfast with my Sugar Twin, and frozen yoghurt for lunch followed by Pocahontas, my next Melbourne adventure involved Japanese food, more food blogger friends, and free alcohol. On Saturday night I-Hua, her fella and I drove to Komeyui Japanese Restaurant. [...]

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Three things I should remind you of before we jump into this third post of my Melbourne adventures. 1. I had Cacao Green frozen yoghurt and a Dark Mocha Soy Frappuccino for lunch on Friday. 2. I stole some of I-Hua’s Cacao Green frozen yoghurt before dinner on Friday night. 3. I had cake for [...]

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After staying up late my first night in Melbourne to sing such lyrical gold as “sha-la-la-la-la-la, ain’t that sad, ain’t it shame, too bad, you gonna miss the girl” with I-Hua, and eating all the chocolate from my bed as well as much of I-Hua’s bag of dried mango from Costco, I woke up bright [...]

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I’ve spent the past five days gallivanting (or, as Agnes said, “social butterflying”) around Melbourne, and oh! oh! My heart, my soul, my happiness. Unlike my last visit, which was tacked to a work trip and fleeting in nature, this has been a true holiday. The five days have been filled with nothing but deliciousness, [...]

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How Ricki Made My Heart Sing and My Head Toasty

by Hannah on December 21, 2011

For the past week or so, I’ve been a bit sick. Not “woe is me, woe is me, help me push my liver back into my spleen and comfort me with stories of four-legged rainbows or else I’ll cry” sick, more just “post-conference, post-multiple work deadlines, post-final gospel concert, post-friend’s wedding in Sydney, post-discovering my [...]

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Today, I have the great honour of presenting my interview with Kirrily Cornwell, a fellow Canberran who was recently crowned the Australian Good Taste Home Cook of the Year 2011. Not only did Kirrily beat out nearly 5000 other competitors with her sheer cooking awesomeness, but she’s also a wonderful mother, world-traveller, and talented singer [...]

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The Kindness of Friends, Not Strangers

by Hannah on November 2, 2011

My local postmen (or women; gender equality *heel click*) have an amazing ability to lose my parcels, not tell me my parcels have arrived, or sit on my parcels. This is supremely frustrating, to say the least. Yet sometimes, my post office’s incompetence creates moments so wonderful that it’s as if the universe planned everything [...]

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Movida Next Door, Last Year.

by Hannah on September 10, 2011

At times, Melbourne seems to me the embodiment of the friend who sometimes supports and builds you up, but equally as often seems to gain pleasure in tearing you down. I mean, how else can you explain a city that has, in the space of two trips/eight days, caused me to experience the following: Reliving [...]

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