I haven’t been doing much this week because of being ill, but my first excursion in four days (on painkillers) was to Canungra, a good hour’s drive away, for the Avanti 6-hour Endurance cycle. A day of endurance – and not just for the riders. It’s a cross-country cycling race open to ‘4-man’ teams right(…)

Some of you may have known that my last blackberry drown in the toilet at the Brisbane city council library. It really was one of the most heart-wrenching moments for me, may he rest in peace. And so, for the last couple of weeks I had been lagging around this brick that shook loudly as(…)

Today I bumped into an old friend on my coffee run. I was heading to Gloria Jeans (where they don’t surcharge on public holidays) to feed my caffeine addiction, and he was heading to a convenience store to feed his nicotine addiction. I sometimes think I nurture an expensive habit – how many newspaper subscriptions(…)

The irony is that we put so much effort into making our home look like nobody lives in it to convince others that they want to live in it. So we are selling, after only living it in for just over a year, our purpose built home is on the market. But have you ever(…)

To start the process rolling we first need to find the recipe. Mad dash to find the newly acquired I-phone … yes we cheated and took a photo of the recipe whilst out shopping yesterday. Sneaky? Yes, but honestly it was needed! So out come the ingredients: flour, sugar, coconut, butter…. the first four ingredients(…)