The Snook and I celebrated in our traditional way: going out for a nice dinner. We’d made a reservation earlier in the week for Redoak. They were doing a special Valentine’s set menu, and they also had two new recently-launched beers that we wanted to try. WIN-WIN! We got there about an hour early, thinking we’d hang at the bar and try the new beers. We talked to Janet about her family in Victoria surviving the bushfires, which seems pretty miraculous. Apparently a lot of the produce they use in brewing comes from the family farms, so they’re waiting to hear how much of it (if any) survived. Well, we gave them our support by ordering half a dozen beers over the night. My favorite was the new Biere Blanche, a Belgian wheat beer (somewhat similar to Hoegaarden). Our table was free so they seated us pretty early and we got stuck into our dinner. For the first course, I had an onion and blue cheese tart while the Snook had calamari with pasta. For mains, I had an absolutely fantastic sirloin steak while the Snook went for the bream fillet with risotto. Dessert was a shared plate with four different morsels on it. We left feeling well-fed and happy. I’m glad Redoak has managed to survive in Sydney over the years. We need more places with great atmosphere, great food, great service, and most importantly, great beers.
Author: Kris
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@randomknits Looks like we’ll be moving to a new location too – Customs House Library @ Cirq Quay! Just need to confirm with the group.
is taking her best friend out for his favorite beers (http://redoak.com.au) for V-Day. Love you, Snook.
@redambition I’m still not 100% convinced of the utility myself. But I highly suggest you follow yokoono if you can. 🙂
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is taking her best friend out for his favorite beers (http://redoak.com.au) for V-Day. Love you, Snook.
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Shared today on Twitter
On my way to Knitters’ Guild meeting. Time to start politicking!
was just elected unopposed as Convenor of the Inner City group.
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Less than 21 hours to go!
COME ON, AUSTRALIA!
This is my favorite thing on the Internet, EVER.
On my way to Knitters’ Guild meeting. Time to start politicking!
was just elected unopposed as Convenor of the Inner City group.
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Let’s Get It On
Hahaha… To celebrate Valentine’s Day, Amazon.com are offering a free MP3 download of “Let’s Get It On” by Marvin Gaye. Nice.
Edited to add: Bastards. It’s US-only. Of course, they don’t tell you that until you’ve already logged in and installed their stupid Downloader app. Grrr.
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P&P as Facebook News Feed
Pride & Prejudice as a Facebook News Feed. THAT IS MY FAVORITE THING ON THE INTERNET, EVER. “Fitzwilliam Darcy became a fan of Fine Eyes.” It’s just perfect in every way. (Link courtesy of Lara.)
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Blood Clot and Brain Cupcakes
Blood Clot and Brain Cupcakes. Bookmarking for Halloween… even though nobody ever eats cupcakes at parties, and I always forget that.
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Germaine, Germaine…
Hey, I know we’ve just had a heartbreaking national tragedy and all, but what I think we all really need is for Germaine Greer and Miranda bloody Devine to start pointing accusatory fingers at everyone they don’t like. Doesn’t that just make everyone feel better? Thought so.
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Cat-It Drinking Fountain
I forgot to mention that we got a Cat-It Drinking Fountain last weekend. Snookums had noticed that Professor Death liked playing with his water bowl, so we figured he might prefer running water. The pet store at Broadway was out of stock but had an ex-display model they offered us for $50, so we snapped it up. As expected, both cats were pretty wary at first. Petey’s come to like it a lot though, and he often drinks from the water spilling out over the dome. We’ve heard that urinary issues in male cats are both life-threatening and expensive, so anything that keeps him drinkin’ water is a good thing!