Free chocolate at Koko Black When I recently asked for poetry recommendations after showing you a poem by Pablo Neruda, my mother responded by giving me The Bee Hut, a collection of poetry by the late Dorothy Porter. Oh, how it sears into me. I’m only halfway through, but I see echoes of my own [...]
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On Easter Sunday, at 11am on the dot, I was sitting in the back of my parents’ car watching my Dad and brother pore over a street map. “Wait,” I said. “So what you’re saying is that not only are we picking up an obscure relative we’ve never met before, but that all you know [...]
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I shan’t lie to you. I haven’t really been cooking anything new or exciting lately. I put this down to being heartsore, not sleeping well, and fighting anxiety on the frontline with a metaphorical sword that at times feels as hefty and threatening as a stick of powder-puff-pink fairy floss. Which is not to say [...]
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Last December, one of my oldest friends married a fellow I went to high school with, and I must say it was one of the finer moments in the Six Degrees of Canberra Bacon. The wedding took place in Sydney on a Sunday, and because my gospel choir’s concert was the night before in Canberra, [...]
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Note: Thank you for your enthusiasm about my Pecan and Coconut Friands with Raspberries! However, I accidentally wrote 2 instead of 4 egg whites when the post went live (I’ve since corrected it). If you make the friands, do use 4 egg whites. Sometimes, when I find myself longing to breathe in beauty, I turn [...]
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Breathe. Pottering in my parents’ kitchen, nuts toasting, sugar pillowing up into glossy meringue, singing Baby Mine from Dumbo and wishing that a baby giraffe tied up in a bundle would miraculously drift through my window too. Breathe. Counting down the minutes for the coffee to infuse, carefully placing three different types of chocolate into [...]
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Thursday was one of those days in which every minute feels like ten. When you find yourself looking at the clock at 11am, despairing over the fact that it surely should be home-time yet you still have a seemingly endless expanse of work hours before you. A day where your mind feels wonkysplash enough that, [...]
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It’s time for another Bits and Bobs Mish Mash Confuzzled Post of Randomness! March’s edition runs the gamut from food to food and more food and then something that isn’t food. Get excited. Months before Vien sent me the Go Natural winnings and her delicious homemade pumpkin butter, we found ourselves chatting via email about [...]
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When my mother had her birthday two weeks ago, my brother and I gave her more than just the pleasure of our company at The Ginger Room’s swanky dinner of deliciousness. For her 60th birthday gift, we bought my mum two places (so that she could take a friend) at one of Simplicity Retreats’ half-day [...]
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