Greetings from Fraser Island! Our convoy travelled up here yesterday ladened with enough food and grog to keep us amused for the next ten days. When we cater the trip we always plan as if it's raining and the fish aren't biting. I'm very pleased to say, so far, I'm wrong. We always make the trip this time of year to join in the Dawn Service at Orchid Beach. This morning, kids from our tour ...
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famous friends + cool companions: Stoffel the Honey Badger
I was scrolling through my Facebook feed this morning when I noticed a post from I really really love science* going viral. I knew instantly that the amazing Honey Badger Houdini was a little mate that I met in South Africa. Bearhands and I had our first big overseas holiday in September 2004. He met me in Johannesburg after I finished a stint in Madagascar for work. We hired a little car, ...
Goan Fish Curry + the numbers game
I can wrap up my week's accomplishments in numbers: 7: hours spent last Wednesday in a round-trip to Ikea 45: dollars spent on meatballs, cheese and reindeer-shaped pasta 2: constructions with Bearhands' assistance 4: unaided constructions 9 ½: toes remaining after repeatedly kicking my toe on a suitcase that I wasn't clever enough to shift after the first injury countless: tears at the ...
six things I learned this weekend – Voices of 2014 launch
I was sitting having lunch with family after Ant and Flic’s wedding a few weeks ago, when my Aunt, Merilyn, asked if Mum and I would be heading to Sydney again this year for the launch of Voices of 2014. I shook my head, we weren’t. The Launch was just two weeks away and I’d decided that we simply had too much on April. Merilyn didn’t say a word, but she sat back in her seat, tilted her head a ...
setting fire to my parachute
How has the first week of the school holidays treated you? Ours has been filled with loom bands, glow-in the dark glitter glue (not even kidding!), musical bedrooms and burning parachutes. It's time for the Little Sister to vacate the nursery, for me to reclaim the office I gave up six years ago and (hopefully) for Bearhands to stop complaining about the amount of stuff on the dining room ...
bite-sized savoury scones with prosciutto twills
This post is brought to you by DON Smallgoods. Is Don. Is Good. There's a country song about a sunset not being a sunset without a girl in it. I'm no sunset expert, but I do know food and in my book, party isn't a party without prosciutto. These little bite-sized savoury scones do double prosciutto duty; in the scone itself and the twill on top. I suggest you make the twills first and then ...