The theme for my work Christmas party this year was jungle. Excited by the possibilities this opened for costumes, we started brainstorming and searching the internet. We stumbled across a photo of someone dressed in feathers and decided a parrot costume would be fun. Searching for parrot costumes we found […]
Yearly archives: 2017
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Almost 12 months on and I have an update on the beetles which are eating our lilly pilly plants. At the time of writing my previous post on this topic, I had thought maybe my hunting had had an impact on the beetle population because throughout January and February I […]
This post has been drafted for over a year now, but since I had already written up most of it I still want to publish it even though it’s been a while. I baked a citrus mud cake with lime curd filling last year for mum’s birthday, which was a […]
A couple of months ago I made a visit to PROV, the Public Record Office of Victoria. I had already used their online services to view wills and probate records of my ancestors, however records created after 1926 are not yet digitised and need to be viewed in their reading […]
There’s a cafe in North Melbourne, called Pocket, which serves a delicious breakfast bagel of bacon, fried egg, cheese and beetroot relish. Inspired by this, and having finished a jar of chutney a friend had given us, I decided to make my own beetroot relish. The recipe below is a combination […]