Yesterday was the 5th anniversary of dad’s passing. Truth be told, I was going to let the date go, leave it un-blogged here for what, I think, would’ve been the first time. And I might have – if my grandmother didn’t suffer a stroke yesterday morning. I can barely imagine how the synchronicity of the…
This is a sequel of sorts to a post I did last year in which I outlined my 6 favourite blogging apps. There are many more than six, of course, and here are 5 more. Buffer Cost: Free Apple or Android Google Chrome Extension Buffer is revolutionising the way I’ve been approaching my social media…
The Late Romantic Take your lover out to dinner, my friend, ignore your back’s protestation at the meagre support strange chairs supply. Don’t squint at the fashionable chefs who fashion food into defiant shapes. Make peace that you never learned how to dance for the weddings over generations; how evenings are a dicey transition —…
Read / February 12th, 2014
With Valentine’s Day almost upon us, I thought it fitting that at least one of the titles I read this month be explicitly about love and such is the case with Australian Love Poems 2013, thus also filling my minimum self-set poetry quota. While it contained some beautiful poems, many by names I already admire…
I just spent the weekend with an amazing group of people, teaching them about blogging, doing exercises and giving tips. Basically, imparting as much as I could in that time frame. There were several moments over the course of the weekend, when I would tell stories about my seven-plus year blogging journey, when my brain…
Ice-creams or icy poles become an attractive option during the summer heat. If you are a baker you might already know this, but bananas freeze well. So an icy treat can be created quite simply this way: Peel a banana, cut in half or keep whole (depending on how much you want), insert a paddle…
I wanted to sit down and write about the first time I saw The Master. It was the first thing I thought about when I heard the news about Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death this morning. I remembered – or so I thought – that I watched it on the plane coming back from New York…
School goes back this week and I’ve made a fresh batch of these for the lunch boxes. I tweaked the original recipe to add the chia seeds, just to see how they’d go, and to my surprise it worked! Hope you like them too. Recipe 60g butter 2 cups self-raising flour 1/2 cup caster…
My grandmother died from skin cancer. I was quite young, under ten, but that was plenty old enough for impressions and memories to gather for a lifetime: the blemishes on her face and arms, a Lazy Susan on her dining table with several of those ‘7 days to a week’ pill containers to divide medication….
