Melbourne is having its 5th Open House next weekend, which is the 28th and 29th of July. During the Open House interesting buildings around the city are opened up for the public to come and view - this year there are 100. If you are interested in coming with me, read on for more information ( Read more... )

Some of you may not know of my deep and abiding love for 'The Zoo', a show about Auckland Zoo that airs Monday to Friday on Gem at 7.00pm (ish, as Gem's timing is rather unreliable). I have been watching it since February and will be heartbroken when I run out of new episodes (I came in part way through the series, and have watched up to the most ( Read more... )

My baking took forever and the icing did not go how I wanted it to go, and then there was way too much washing up.

I feel this is relevant right now:

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Just got in from a pleasant interlude outside (I know right? OUTSIDE! AMAZING!). I went out to water the pot plants and it was quite lovely, so I decided to enjoy the sun and warmth while hopefully boosting my vitamin D levels. The breeze and I wrestled for the paper but Julian won when he sat down on top of it for patting! He was fluffy and warm ( Read more... )

Sprinkles Cupcakes, a californian cupcake company, have released a cupcake vending machine to dispense cupcakes 24 hours a day! Also you get to see inside the machine as the robo-arm picks up your selected cupcake. Very fun!

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I made my correctly coconutty Anzac biscuits (I am disturbed at how many of you are not pro-coconut :( ) and took them into work today - they went over very well which is always a bit of an ego boost ( Read more... )

Today I was looking for Anzac biscuit recipes (here are a couple) and came across one that omitted the coconut because the author didn't like it. My initial reaction was disbelief - surely coconut is a required ingredient? Clearly this calls for a poll.

Poll Anzac biscuits

Painfully cute hand sized fluffy baby bunnies.

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LJ is for some reason only loading as a blank screen on my computer. Argh. Dreamwidth is still working fine (thus the post!) so you may want to chat to me over here for a bit. Here is the link to my DW. You can comment with open ID (and I think I can also friend open ID accounts so they can see my locked posts? I can't remember but comment if you' ( Read more... )

Via tumblr: what if men who gave cat calls were well-mannered? Some examples ( Read more... )