Sometimes you need an incentive to think outside the box and move beyond the obvious. I’m the sort of person who’s always better motivated with a carrot than a stick. (The orange post it notes flapping on the perimeter of my lap top are testament to that. Recent example; Australian or UK residents for tax […]
Archive for August, 2012
A gratin (or plain old potato bake if you prefer) is the edible equivalent of a pair of sweat pants you can wear down to the shops. It’s lazy and relaxed, yet also manages to be just smart enough for company (as opposed to pyjamas). It’s a glorious muddle of dairy and white stodge, gussied […]
Multitasking. It’s a funny sort of thing. Perhaps it’s hard wired into the X chromosome. The ability to remember we need milk for breakfast, birthdays, devise and source suitable presents, organise council tax, and print out exact paperwork for visas and boarding passes before shuffling ourselves to the panoply of medical appointments that come with […]
And yes, I’m one of them. This video below made me laugh, quite a lot. I couldn’t have said it any better. Thanking our dear friend Nick for sending this my way. It took a good twenty seconds before I stopped getting excited about the new feature on the iphone 5 and juggling imaginary budgets […]
I do like to be beside the seaside. Call me Australian. Call me a water sign. Call me anything you like, but if it goes more than a month and The Hungry One and I haven’t had some contact with an ocean, we go a little stir crazy. I heard a rumour there was sand […]