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  • Septic tomatoes

    A little forest of baby tomato plants have sprung up around our septic tank. Given that flourishing verdant patches are not the usual result of my lack of intervention regime in the garden, I am rather pleased by this. I even weeded around them. My dedication knows no bounds. However – and despite my mother’s…

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  • Flying fish

    Slow-mo flying fish kind of blow my mind. Holy wonders of evolution Batman.

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  • Sport and baby feet

    As the office closed early on Friday, we went and played golf. In hindsight I’m not entirely sure why I agreed to go, as I have very rarely played, and it’s not the most fascinating of games. Thankfully, playing with a bunch of lunatics (ie. my workmates) makes it a little more interesting. I am…

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  • Chewy chocolate chip cookies

    These chocolate chip cookies are lovely – crisp on the outside, chewy on the inside, and lots of chocolate chips. Recipe from Smitten Kitchen, home of so many awesome baked goods, and only slightly altered. ingredients: 2 cups flour 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 3/4 cup butter, melted 1 cup packed brown sugar…

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  • Camping

    The weather was a little damp for camping this weekend, but we still had a lot of fun. I found a bees’ nest. And jammed on the ukulele. And read Ellen Kushner’s The Privilege of the Sword. And when we got home, we found the biggest group of king parrots we’ve seen feeding on some…

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  • Bits & pieces

    Someone has written a sequel to A Little Princess – one of my favourite childhood books.  All about what happens to Ermengarde!  I am going to get my hands on that the moment it’s published. I got a shout out from Galactic Suburbia in their latest episode (because I stalked them at AussieCon.  In a…

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  • Baby drool

    The husband has been away again, playing golf this time, and the cats and I have been at home attempting to be productive. Well, I have been attempting to be productive – the cats have been sleeping, napping, and shedding hair all over the furniture. (And were my attempts successful? Well, to a certain extent.…

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  • Tunes

    I spent part of this weekend making a website for the husband’s “band”.  I use the term loosely, because said band really consists of himself and a mate drinking beer and recording mostly improvised instrumental tunes.  Perhaps “duo” would be better, and that’s what I’ve used on the website.  But really, as I think it’s…

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  • AussieCon 4 – round up

    Last weekend I was in Melbourne, staying in my aunt’s apartment in the city, and catching the tram every day to go out to the 68th World Science Fiction Convention (or, because it’s the fourth one held in Australia, AussieCon 4). Highlights: seeing Catherynne Valente and Seanan McGuire on a panel “in conversation” – they’re…

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  • On an island

    A few weeks ago, we went boating for my sister in law’s birthday – putting down the Pumicestone Passage and anchoring (ie. beaching the boats, and hurling the anchors onto the sand – does that count as anchoring?) on a little beach on Bribie Island. There was fishing: And a grand total catch of one…

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