Let me start with a little bit of backstory. You may or may not know that I am a high school drop-out. Despite being a good student, various circumstances and sensitivities…
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Nice Life Reminders Pip-Life something GOOD for the weekendEpisode Seven: Something Good for the Weekend
Do you ever have those weeks when each day brings more fatigue no matter what you do? This week has been like that for me. I think it’s just the heat…
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Nice Life Reminders Pip-Life something GOOD for the weekendEpisode Six: Something Good for the Weekend
Hooray! It’s the weekend! For me, this means doing some work-y things and some studying things. But I am totally happy about all that. I’m also going to do some cooking…
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My littlest child turned 20 this week. I know, I know. 20 is not little, no matter how rose coloured your glasses may be. 20 bumps that word teenage, the one…
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Nice Life Reminders Pip-Life something GOOD for the weekendEpisode Five: Something good for the weekend
This morning I got up super early and went to the market. So early in fact that the aisles were still full of empty fruit boxes and runaway grapes and squished…
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Amazingly we’ve ticked over into 2020 and much less amazingly we saw the new year in with catastrophic bushfires across Australia. It’s hard to know what to say about this really,…
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Well hello! Three years ago a number of very difficult years in my life culminated in it all turning completely upside down. Beloved people and pets died. A very long and…
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I got up early this morning and had a cup of tea outside in a very light mist of rain. I can’t tell you how brilliantly refreshing it was. There were…
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It’s Saturday already and luckily you have checked in here because I have BIG ideas on what you could be doing with your good self this weekend. Something GOOD For the…
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There are lots of bread-in-a-pot recipes floating around the internet, the best of which is The New York Times No-Knead Bread. This recipe, however, is also good. It doesn’t take quite…
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It’s time to talk about things to do on the weekend! Because the weekend is now! So let’s do that … Something GOOD For the Weekend Something GOOD to do Go…
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Do you subscribe to the New York Times What to Cook This Weekend newsletter? I do and I love it. Well. I love most of it. What I don’t love is…
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You may know that I launched this blog back in 2006 and it’s been humming along very nicely since then. While the blog has remained much the same, the online world has shifted…
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Remember that rice salad recipe I was talking about yesterday? Well here it is! In case you are in the mood for rice salad. This is based on a recipe my…
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I just watered my plants and do you know what I thought? I thought “go and write a blog post you lazy sod”. So here I am with a November-style edition…
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Not all good food has to be green and crunchy*, now does it? Sometimes there is nothing better than something comforting and carbohydrate-laden instead. These jaffles are just that. You can make…
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It’s such a rainy day here. After two or three very hot days in a row the cool change came through and it has been bucketing down since the exact moment…
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This is one of my favourite comfort recipes. It’s quick to make and makes four generous serves which at my house means there’s plenty of leftovers for breakfast or lunch or…
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There has been so much going on in my world that I have been too tired to pop in here, but it’s a very quiet and rainy Saturday morning … and…
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Well hallo there! How has your weekend been? I have been a bit poorly, so I made a plan to begin a cute thing called Hook & Look. The hook part…
