February 2012

A Nifty App For People Who Like Filming Videos

February 29, 2012

Adam has fallen in love with this app: Action Movie FX. This is the blurb from the iTunes store, “ACTION MOVIE FX lets you add Hollywood FX to iPhone movies YOU shoot!”. Even better, it is free. But if you don’t like seeing innocent cats being squashed by an enormous wrecking ball, then it might [...]

I Bet You Thought I Was Finished Talking About Faeces, Huh?

February 27, 2012

Yes, the adventures of baby poo explosions (or ‘Number Threes’ as I’ve heard them more delicately termed) may be over in this house and, true, there’s the odd case gastro to keep us all on our toes – or hovered over the toilet – but by and large I haven’t waded into these murky waters [...]

Here’s One Pretty Darn Effective The Walking Dead Season 2 Promo

February 25, 2012

via my husband. I tell you, if I had been an audience member at about 1.40min, I bet there would’ve been some pant-wetting going on, with additional crawling-over-people-to-get-away action.

Acclimatising

February 23, 2012

Learning a new game together on the ipad My desk is less than a minute away from here Straight lines and shadows, abound My Thursdays and Fridays are given over to writing: this is the theory. However like many theories of mine it is one that is thwarted by a lot of excuse-making and judgements-of-convenience. [...]

What I’m Reading – February 2012

February 21, 2012

Do you know I just got a shock as I wrote that and then matched up the date: February is almost over. I wasn’t paying attention. Well, apart from the extra reading I’m now doing for work, I’ve also been borrowing a lot of books, dipping in and out of them at my leisure. The [...]

Three Years

February 19, 2012

Three Years Composure seems like fakery designed to trick our souls out of feeling. But the blatant fact remains: grief is inconvenient and consumes precious hours that would be better spent in the employ of reason or menial errands – or so my mind tries to say. There were days when I had no [...]

What Richard Flanagan Taught Me About Baking Bread

February 17, 2012

I’m reading Richard Flanagan’s And What Do You Do, Mr Gable? at the moment* and in it there’s a short essay called ‘Bread’ which was originally published in The Age. He talks about his memories of bread baking, dating back to when he was a child. At the end also is a recipe called ‘The [...]

The Good Guys Blogging Contract (+ giveaway)

February 16, 2012

I’m excited to be able to share with you today a very cool campaign going on at the moment. The Good Guys are giving a blogger the opportunity to be considered for the role of The Good Guys Home Chef Blogger. This contract will include amazing prizes such as The Good Guys kitchen appliances, Coles vouchers for recipe [...]

And Before You Know It

February 14, 2012

… everything comes back: the necessity of scoping out the best possible places to eat at lunch, the divide between the great range of eating options within walking distance versus whatever is quick and easy and cheap that you can take back to your desk; perving on the reading material of fellow passengers on the [...]