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Random timer post
What I mostly write these days are Facebook posts or tweets. I tried Ello, and without an app, on my mostly used device of choice (iPhone), it was an exercise in frustration ( Read more... ) -
New Year's Memeage
In 2009, ( Read more... ) -
Christmas Comes But Once a Year, and so does Monkey Bread
A couple of years ago we had a bring a work pot-luck Christmas lunch. One of the staff members (from a Southern US state) brought in what she described as overnight bread, and what she said her family called Monkey Bread. They had it every Christmas morning ( Read more... ) -
Happy Day Meme (Day 3) - Kindness of Strangers
Jeff is a subcontractor, so we put his fortnightly cheque into our business account. Being a business name on the cheque, and a business checking account, there's usually a 3 business day hold on the cheque ( Read more... ) -
Happy Day Meme (Day 2) - 3 things, including a Picture
Today, I am happy for three things ( Read more... ) -
A mile for a Mite, with spice.
I briefly went to Uni in Adelaide, in the 90s. The first (and only) class I took was English Lit. The first semester we studied literature that could be classified as new canon. Two that I remember, beyond fragments of story and no title springing to mind, are The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, and The Golden Gate, by Vikram Seth ( Read more... ) -
Solace of Australia
Although "Quantum of Solace" is still playing at my local theatre, "Australia" isn't, it left just this past Thursday. Both of these movies fall under my classification of "movies that will lose visual impact once on the small screen", so we went hunting through the listings. Turned out, both movies were playing at the Towne Stadium 16, which ( Read more... )
