Month: July 2006

  • Clothes

    Another interesting one from AskMetaFilter: What would women wear if men didn’t exist? I disagree with the commenter who was insulted at the assumption that all women dress for men. I think it’s quite obvious that we do. Even if you honestly, truly don’t care what the world thinks of you, every bit of clothing…

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  • Nan Bullen

    Natalie friggin’ Portman as Anne Boleyn? I hope they at least give her six fingers.

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  • LCMs

    Huh. What the hell does the “LCM” in Kellogg’s LCMs stand for?

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  • We’re baaaack!

    Melbourne RecapEveryone told me that Melbourne was just going to be a Shopping Mecca, and they were so right. I mean, just look at Snookums there! He looks like he stepped right off the catwalk in Milan. (Damn, I do like to put that boy in funny hats.) If you want to skip all the…

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  • King-sized Relaxation

    King-sized RelaxationMelbourne has been great so far! We just had dinner at Crumpet’s. The best part is that the heat in our hotel room was broken, so they just upgraded us to the Rain Man suite! SCORE. Snookums is pumped.

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  • Water Waster!

    How much water do you waste? The Snook and I use about 85 litres each per day, which is much less than the national average in Britain. Of course, it helps that we’re slackers and we avoid doing laundry, washing the dishes, and watering the garden wherever possible.

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  • Cooking Class

    This morning the Snook and I headed over to Accoutrement for a cooking class with Armando Percuoco, Sydney’s top Italian chef. It turned out to be more of a demonstration than a hands-on thing, but we had a great time nevertheless. Armando is a charmer! Very funny and entertaining. He made us three courses: mussels…

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  • Bad but Good!

    Check out this discusson of recipes so bad they’re good. (We could make these for our next Knitter’s Guild meeting, girls!)

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  • Fashion Police

    It’s not every day you get into work to find a phone message from the Fashion Police. Seriously. I just gave a phone interview to the Sydney Morning Herald‘s Fashion Police editor regarding the “Knit and Quit” classes we’re running in the shop in August. The blurb’s due out in the paper next Thursday…

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  • Neopolitan 2.0

    I feel like a rock star.We’re calling it “Neopolitan 2.0”.

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