Food. Wine. Melbourne.
And so it is February. Yikes. January pretty much passed in a wave of study and work with a couple of short trips to see real waves along the way. Summer seems to pass so quickly in Melbourne, as if our complaints about the heat scare the weather gods into submission and before long we […] Read more…
Christmas in Australia doesn’t obey any of the rules. We grow up watching American and English classic Christmas films filled with snow, open fires, and magic enhanced by a chilly winter eve. Dinner tables are filled with plump roasted birds, hot plum puddings and mugs filled with egg nog. This is what we learn that […] Read more…
That title sounds like I have vowed to make a documentary like ‘That Sugar Film’ or ‘Supersize Me’. Fear not, as much as I love them together or separately I don’t think I could handle a year of nothing but Champagne and chips. Champagne and Chips turns one today. And what a year it has […] Read more…
I don’t think my parents will ever forgive me for moving away. It is not an uncommon occurrence for one or the other to remind me that I am never around for significant events and birthdays. One of the hardest times for my mum is Mother’s Day. She was incredibly close to her mum, my […] Read more…
This year Easter has arrived under a veil of controversy. It seems that Cadbury had the audacity to change the chocolate in its Creme Eggs to Cadbury milk chocolate, from Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate. No longer do we get our glass and a half of full cream milk (in every 200g block) wrapped around the gooey, […] Read more…