Welcome to this week's I'm Pinning Around Pinterest Link Party. Thanks to everyone who joined in last week's pinterest party. My favourite post (because I learned so much) was 10 tips to raise adventurous eaters from Boy Eats World. If you joined in last week, don't forget to pop back and pin two posts, thanks. The guidelines for I'm Pinning Around Pinterest Link Party are as ...
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wattle & wind
Yesterday driving home from a flying trip to Brisbane, Cootamundra Wattle started playing on my phone. (I'll let that settle for a bit and give the non-country music fans among you time to click away). One stanza stuck with me. It summed up exactly how I've been feeling this past week: my anger at the injustice of the world, my sadness at the violence being perpetrated by humans on other ...
five snagadelic sausage recipes
Last month the most widely shared things on my Facebook page were a recipe for toad in the hole and a story of woe about a bloke who put popping candy on his todger. One of my readers even wrote to me, confiding that her husband loves a thick sausage. Turns out that you lot love a good snag too! If I've learned anything about this blogging caper, it's give the people what they want, so I've ...
I'm Pinning Around Pinterest Link Party
Welcome to this week's I'm Pinning Around Pinterest Link Party. Thanks to everyone who joined in last week's pinterest party. My favourite post was this step-by-step tutorial for making a baby rattle from Zamamabakes. I adore homemade baby gifts and in my experience, they're treasured long after our babies have grown. If you joined in last week, don't forget to pop back and pin two posts, ...
the sixty-four thousand dollar question
Dear Readers, I'm perplexed. Quelle surprise. The nature of my confusion is not of global concern, after all, this blog doesn’t consider existential thought* and the only string theory around here is whether using dyed-string to tie up a roast chicken will end in a Bridget Jone’s style soup disaster. I’m now a simple farm girl but, once upon a lifetime ago, I was a scientist. I had an ...
the proof is in the pickles
The funny thing about looking for recipes on the internet is there’s no guarantee they’re any good. I write recipes, photograph them, put them on the blog, and you just have to take my word for it that they're tasty. Regular readers may have tried a few dishes with some success, so they start to trust me. Others arrive to this site after asking google for something in particular; for them ...