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Copenhagen 2

January 31, 2015

Denmark and Belgium

More old photos from an old laptop taken by the defunct, not so sorely missed old camera. Chance and design- was attending a work thing in Denmark and went to...

Shwedagong

January 20, 2015

Two passports Three currencies (work in progress)

For someone who dreamt of travelling forever, well a lot, I’ve become quite disenchanted by airports these last few years. I used to love the whole shebang, the ticket wedged...

Sabai sabai

January 18, 2015

The Sabai-sabai kind of life

Amazing Thailand. Never want for good food, coffee shops, little guesthouses, markets and flowers. Taking kitsch to an art form with a healthy obsession for vintage. How do you fit...

Amman April 2012

January 17, 2015

South Africa and Jordan

Just pictures stored in the laptop, taken by what is now a defunct (but UH insists is still a good) camera. Both trips started on the wrong foot: took the...

Progress-1kg after 4 months of continuing cake eating. Some people are too annoyingly lucky.

January 16, 2015

Toaster Oven Calorie Bomb Series

What’s a blog if you can’t show off a little, or a lot even. Nigella Lawson’s Coffee Walnut Layer Cake that rose to great heights in our little toaster oven....

Camping in DRCongo

January 15, 2015

Hello Fatty!

So, I did what I thought was impossible, improbable and probably a waste of me bloody time. I tried to lose weight (improbable)….at 39 (impossible)….properly (no crash diets, exercise and...

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January 4, 2015

D in Art

When I was in school, I’d be quite lucky to occasionally muster a C- in art. Years and years of dreading art lessons, the drudgery of pulling out paints and...

HB 2014

January 3, 2015

Useless Husband, best birthday present ever?

Who else would wake up at 4.00 am to watch the sun rise with 200 other tourists at Angkor Wat. And follow me to Kinshasa for two years, do the cooking and...

January 3, 2015

Marmalade Pud on New Year weekend

Today’s fare is the Marmalade Pudding, cake no. 10 in my attempts to stay sane on Saturday mornings and help useless husband look less like a POW. Heavy sponge with...

This is 40...

January 3, 2015

So this is 40…

Well…I still feel 37 and think I look 50 (the joys of having a birthday in between Christmas and New Year).  This is how I started my 5th decade…  

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