Emu with a Clue

The Joy of Handstanding

2008-03-29T04:27:45Z

I am feeling surprising fantastic and full of light this afternoon. Surprising because it has been a really busy week and I didn't get a great night's sleep last night either. I am attributing this feeling to a great yoga session this morning e...

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Black bananas and the value of fruit

2008-03-29T03:43:57Z

After the great banana shortage of two years ago (this was due to destruction of banana crops in North Easterrn Australia), I thought I would never again take bananas for granted. Fast forward to today and once again I have a whole fruit bowl ful...

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Culture QotW: Brussel Sprouts & Broccoli

2008-03-29T03:30:55Z

What one common food item do you refuse to eat? I don't refuse it but have never been particularly keen on too much pepper. Had a curry in a restaurant once completely ruined by an overdose of pepper. It wasn't even a recipe that I thought wo...

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In the land of the dinosaurs

2008-03-28T03:02:53Z

Yesterday I moved up to my new floor at work. I am to be working with a bunch of old engineers as a policy/project manager (with the secret brief of dragging my new colleagues kicking and screaming into the 21st century). I am the only woman t...

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Eating less processed food

2008-03-26T01:16:03Z

Liked these tips for eating less processed food in Paula Goodyer's Sydney Morning Herald blog (she got them from Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma): Don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognise as food Avoid food...

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Need to stay away from bookshops on my lunchbreak!

2008-03-25T04:36:18Z

Here is what I bought: This is quite a thin little book from Japan and is described as 'A picture of an eccentric world that clearly passes on what goes on in the minds of young women today: a radical depiction of our time' (Ryu Murakami). P...

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QotD: But Everyone Likes Me!

2008-03-24T23:15:37Z

Why do you think it is some people don't get along with you? My dad used to have a little sign stuck on his study wall that said "People who think they know everything upset those of us who do". Unfortunately I seem to have inherited the "kn...

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QotD: Stolen Goods

2008-03-24T05:46:47Z

What's the most valuable thing you've ever had stolen? I had my handbag snatched about 5 years ago now. I was taking my daughter (then 3 years old) to her playgroup and was walking down a lane way to the back entrance of the building when...

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Vox Hunt: Allergy Season

2008-03-24T05:29:42Z

Show us something you're allergic to: I have been popping anti-histamines like crazy the past few days - probably a combination of the dust from the renovations and the new growth following the rain we have been having in Sydney...

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It's over!

2008-03-23T04:50:48Z

We had my son's party for his 5th birthday at our house yesterday. Was a bit of a challenge getting ready for it as my husband, in his wisdom, had decided that last week would be a good week to have part of the back of the house demolished! Nev...

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