Meanwhile, my mother and I have become addicted to making and eating clafoutis. Clafoutis is a kind of custard-based French dessert into which you can basically throw any fruit you like. We have been experimenting with several different recipes, but seem to be having the most fun using the word ‘clafoutis’ as a euphemism for [...]
Archive for November, 2008
The Town & The Hills
Posted in Music, aimless blathering, theatre my darlings, work blah, tagged the lucksmiths, wicked on November 23, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Quiz time! Guess whose computer exploded and resultingly lead to an extended blog-abscence? If you guessed me, candies for you. And for bonus points, who, as a result of said computer’s internment to the great Dick Smith’s in the sky, lost her entire music collection stored on iTunes and every single essay she ever wrote for uni, [...]
Remembrance
Posted in Remembrance Day, tagged lest we forget on November 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve always had what, some may say, is a morbid fascination with the First World War. Of all the various periods of history I have studied and/or geeked out ridiculously over, I am continuously drawn back to that time at the beginning of the twentieth century where the nations of Europe felt it necessary to attempt to blow [...]
Viewed To Win
Posted in cup fever, tagged stupidest thing i've ever seen, whinney! on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
(Heck, with such a snazzy pun title like that, I should be writing headlines for tabloids)
***WARNING: THE FOLLOWING CONTAINS MUCH BABBLING ABOUT HORSE RACING. IF YOU DON’T KNOW YOUR TRIFECTAS FROM YOUR TRICYCLES, MIGHT BE BEST TO TUNE OUT AND THINK ABOUT PUPPIES FOR A WHILE***
So the Melbourne Cup was yesterday. I LOVE Melbourne Cup [...]
