I quit my job of Awesome just after Easter. New management shook up my team too much and I finally had to break up with the company. We'd both changed, wanted different things, had been taking each other for granted for too long. It was hurting us both. Blah blah blah ( Read more... )

There's corn in my garden i noticed today, an inch or so high in a neat row along the garage wall, and another few randomly peeking up in the back patch. there's also seedlings of some curcurbits i planted but don't recall what they were. some kind of zucchini or squash i suppose since the cucumbers, pumpkins and watermelons are nestled into bales ( Read more... )

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i'm looking into how to make mead. it seems i'm about to come into rather more honey since the last several kilo bucket of aged and crystallised grey box has been such an asset to my honey vodka. i'm sending my grandad jars of pickled onions as thanks. when he finally keels over he'd like to be found preserved in chip buttys and pickled onion ( Read more... )

i was all prepped up for this being my last tuesday evening for a while, having signed away seven weeks of tuesdays and thursdays to the new course. alas said course has been rescheduled to october, just in time to clash horribly with the deadlines of pretty much every major project i have all year ( Read more... )

Made a big batch ot haloumi yesterday cos I'm on holidays until next week. Having returned from my annual pilgrimage to Canberra earlier and better rested than ever before, I find myself firmly in "pottering" mode until my return to work next week. On Wednesday I also made a batch of wholemilk ricotta for apple and ricotta pancakes, paneer for ( Read more... )

I got tagged in one of those facebook thingies where i have to actually install some application in order to reply and then tag five million people or whatever. Sneh. That said, I have been making lists lately so what the hell...

25 random things about me:1. I went to the Neil Young show on Wednesday night last week and the Triffids & Friends ( Read more... )

If you can find a train whose tracks haven't melted, a bus that hasn't been redirected to help out the trains or a tram that isn't sardine-full with broken air-conditioning, you can travel free today: http://www. ( Read more... )

Well actually there's two rooms cos my neighbors are looking for someone as well. Theirs includes a reasonable sized carpeted bedroom plus bungalo studio, mine's a large uncarpeted bedroom with built-in robes plus lock-up garage storage/workshop. Rent's the same on both - $758.50pcm ($175pw) plus bond & bills, and either way there's hippies

Georgia Fields (http://www.myspace.com/georgiafields) is playing at the Edinburgh Castle at 8pm. She and her band are great to watch - the ukelele/glockenspiel/harmonium cover of Sweet Child 'O Mine is just glorious.

BBQ at mine beforehand to catch up over a few beers and some charred meat. Kick off about 3pm and then we'll wander down to the pub ( Read more... )