Hello! Good news, everyone! Anyone can join Blog With Pip now. I’ve made the site public. I figured a) this way everyone can use the lessons and b) it’s a lovely…
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I’m reading a book that I am really loving at the moment. You know those books where you ration every chapter because you don’t want it to end? It’s that kind of…
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My great-grandfather grew up in England, but found himself living in New Zealand and later, Tasmania and Victoria. He had a particular love of the natural world, and it seemed to…
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I’m well and truly growing up and this morning I was thinking about things that I’ve learnt along the way and I thought – maybe some of these could be helpful…
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Look. I made another one of these recordings and I don’t even know what I’m doing here ……
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Gloria Vanderbilt, it’s fair to say, was not a minimalist. Let’s get that straight.…
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Spices are tricky aren’t they? The storage of them, I mean.…
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It’s back. The terribly produced podcast you didn’t know you needed. Yup. Fifteen minutes of me pretending to talk to you on the phone, with links and chatter here, to follow…
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This post is in partnership with Milligram: The good folk at Milligram invited me to choose some things from their shop and write about the ones I most liked, so that is what I…
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I know, I know. Podcasts are meant to have fancy music and be edited and tell a story masterfully. My PipCast does none of that. What it DOES have is a platypus,…
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What else would I be doing early on a Friday morning, I ask you?! It seems like a good time to check in on the year, so far. It’s A LONG chatty…
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This morning I went for a walk by the Yarra, in my relentless quest to see a platypus or two. I did not see a platypus, but a man told me…
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Okay. I have TWO quite similar potato curries that I make. One is in my book – Craft For The Soul – and it’s the OG Potato Curry I am family-famous…
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You can be anything and do anything and own anything now, because we have the internet. Hazaaaa!…
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It’s the last day of 2017 and on the cusp of a mysterious new year, I thought it would be good to share some tips on how to have nicer times.…
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My old car didn’t even have a stereo in it. It had a hopeful gap where the stereo should have been. It also had some other amazing and unique features, including…
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Let’s do a little backward dance and think about what’s been going on, before the month whirls crazily into holiday season proper and we’re all rendered overwhelmed and (even more) tired…
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Oh hi! Did you know the Frankie Good Stuff Awards have launched for a second year? It’s true. They have. They’re a great initiative aimed at sniffing out clever creative types,…
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When I was a kid, there were quite a few things we used to have for breakfast. They’re not really the kinds of things I eat anymore because my tastes are…
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I met Charlotte Ree at the Perth International Writers’ Festival a couple of years ago and developed a bit of a crush, to be honest. I mean, who wouldn’t?…
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Why do we read or watch what we do? Well. As you would know, modern marketing ensures that we’re dished up a varied array of cultural goodies to consider and consume, dependent on…
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Perhaps you didn’t know you needed a The Breakfast Club doll? I didn’t know I needed one. Now I can’t stop thinking about this one. Wanting things is weird like that,…
