My bread carbohydrate addiction started early in life. After school, I’d run home from the bus stop, throw my bag in my room, my dog Goldie panting at my heels, run into the kitchen and cut massive doorstops of mum’s homemade wholemeal bread and add peanut butter or Nimbin cheese (the best cheddar cheese), think wistfully[read more…]
This movie cracks me up. Every time. What a funny, funny man Leslie Nielsen was. When you read these quotes, try to imagine Frank Drebin’s voice (if you know what I mean). [offering a cigar] Vincent Ludwig: Cuban? Frank: No, Dutch-Irish. My father was from Wales. Jane: I’ve heard police work is dangerous. Frank: It is. That’s why[read more…]
Vintage ad from: Dangerous Minds
I’m dedicating this post to one of my favourite eras, the 1970s, I guess because well, I was there but I wasn’t there (too tiny to appreciate it) … a time in history in amongst the idealism of the 60s and the materialism of the 80s. Back in the 70s, people … Drank a classic cocktail: Grapefruit[read more…]
Oh yeah the 90s. The time I went to uni, backpacked overseas to the US, London and Europe, shared old Queenslanders with countless housemates, partied like it was 1999 and was part of the 18-25 demographic. In the 90s People were eating: Thai food was the food to eat out in Australia. In honour of the[read more…]
I don’t think there’s any movie quite as inspirational or entertaining as a classic road movie. There’s a little bit of tough guy, underdog hero, on-the-run, camaraderie in the face of adversity in all of us. Here are my personal favourites which unintentionally happen to be from 5 different decades: 1. Thelma and Louise I saw this 1991 movie about female solidarity[read more…]
I never had one. But, my friends who lived across the road when I was a kid had a treehouse down in their back paddock which we used to sleep overnight in sometimes on weekends (parents never seemed to worry about their children back then, it made for a fun childhood I think). It was a[read more…]
