Month: August 2009

  • Blue Smoke Devilled Eggs

    Blue Smoke Devilled Eggs recipe. What got my attention is that they cut the eggs in half width-wise rather than length-wise, then cut a bit off each tip so they’ll stand up. Neat! Have to try that next time.

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  • Food Watch NSW

    Ohmygod. I just installed Food Watch NSW on my iPhone, and it immediately showed me all the eateries near work that have received health code violations in the past year. EEP!

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  • Black Star Pastry

    Oohhh, new patisserie in Newtown to try out sometime…

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  • Molly Ringwald on John Hughes. (Link courtesy of Kevin‘s Twitter feed.)

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  • Mad Men Home Accessories

    Mad Men Home Accessories. This is exactly what I imagine the Barker home will look like in a few years…

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  • Shipshe Flea Market

    “Flea market a stimulus unto itself.” A nice article on the Shipshewana Flea Market, and how it continues to thrive in spite of the recession. I took the Snook there once. Jenny used to work there on summer vacations.

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  • Baby Cardigan and Tasman Summer TunicI finally finished off a couple lingering kids’ projects that I was working on. The first is a cardigan for my friend Venks’s new baby. The boy is named Vivaan and he was born about two weeks ago. The wool is Wired for Fibre’s “Elizabeth” sock wool in colour Serenity.…

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  • RunningBlog

    Huh. It’s been pretty much all running, all the time around here lately. Sorry about that! It’s just that I had two races in a row, so I haven’t had time/willpower for much else. Getting back to normal now. Six weeks til the half-marathon! This week: 24.9km (15.5mi)Last week: 17.8km (11mi)

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  • City2Surf2009

    City2Surf 2009Today was the day of my fourth running of the 14km City2Surf… and my first without the Snook! He said that our run last year “nearly killed him,” and he hadn’t done any training this year. So I was on my own. (Technically there were three guys from my company running, including my buddy…

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  • More Guild Success

    More Guild SuccessWe had another highly successful and FUN Inner City Guild meeting yesterday. Three more people signed up, which officially puts us at 51 financial members. That’s crazy! We have to be getting close to the biggest group. We’ve decided to make our “Learn to Knit” workshops a regular monthly occurrence, and I’m thrilled…

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