This is the time of year when bloggers do their retrospectives, but I don’t feel like doing a blog retrospective for 2015. For one thing, I did hardly any blogging, and barely kept up with reading other blogs. For another,…
A post all about sugar, what a surprise at this time of year! Today is horribly hot, and I’m sitting inside, obsessively tracking the cool change across Western Victoria via the BOM weather observation map, and there is no way…
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…
What was that resolution I made about participating in these blogging events more regularly? Well, I suppose every six months or so is regular… sort of… Anyway! I got back from my exciting European trip at midnight between Tuesday and…
Whee! I am still coughing like Mimi and wanting to sleep 18 hours a day like the cats, but I am also doped up to the gills on antibiotics and codeine syrup, which means that I’m also feeling alarmingly happy. …
Happy Easter! I have heard the words ‘Christ is Risen’ in at least twelve languages, and have learned how having faith in the Resurrection is quite a lot like barracking for the Melbourne Demons, except that one’s hopes are more…
Not that we are having the fearsome weather quite yet, but I’m feeling quite trepidatious when I consider the week ahead. Do we really need four days in a row around 40°C, Melbourne? Really? And 28°C overnight on Friday is…
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…
