Hooray! We finally returned to the land of Shakespeare! And what a fine, strange, land it is! As You Like It is definitely one of Shakespeare’s sillier comedies, which I attribute to the fact that he was doing his level…
When we left our intrepid heroine, she was still exploring the wonders and perils of Darwin. Will she be eaten by crocodiles? Will she break her leg again? And, most importantly, will her hotel have hot water…?
Last weekend, I was invited to a Yule celebration at the home of one of my friends from work. It was an amazingly fun evening (I think I could become addicted to the werewolf card game, even though I’m fairly…
Oh, I am excited about this one. So excited that I am bringing this allegedly monthly challenge back from yet another hiatus when Life got the better of me. I know it’s not quite July yet, but let’s face it…
Tonight, my friends, is a very special night! Not only is it the Eurovision Grand Final (at least as far as Australian Broadcasting is concerned), it is also my third Blogiversary! Happy blog birthday to me! If I were a…
I take Easter, and particularly Good Friday, very seriously. It’s not just because of the sheer number of professional commitments I have around Easter (and Good Friday is pretty much the peak of these, as I tend to have a…
So, if you have seven people around at your house on New Year’s Eve, you need seven desserts, right? Of course you do. For the curious, the desserts were champagne and raspberry jelly, vegetarian panna cotta, vegan coconut, lemon and…
Peer group pressure is a terrible thing! Here I am reviewing 2013, and I don’t really know what to say about it, because it really was a very mixed year on many levels. (Sometimes, it’s just best to stick to…
Hello! I’ve been madly baking and confecting and singing and baking again for the last three weeks and have barely had time to glance at this blog (and I have so many recipes to write up, all of them unphotographed…
Let’s just start by saying that yes, it’s sweet. Outrageously sweet. Ridiculously sweet. For my palate, it’s pretty much too sweet. But having said that… it’s astonishing how well the flavours go together, because I really wouldn’t think you could…
