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What Starbucks Hot Chocolate Are You?

You Are an Original Hot Chocolate You are a faithful and tender partner. You are generous in sharing your many talents. You are generous with your time. You believe that the best things in life don’t come quickly.You see yourself as competent, dependable, and detail oriented. You follow and play by the rules. It’s important [...]

A Bit of Perth

Jacob’s Ladder, between Cliff St and Mounts Bay Road, Perth. It has 242 steps (43 metres, 142ft) and leads down to Mounts Bay Road. The Ladder is a popular site for masochistic Perth residents to exercise, with many people using it not only in the mornings and on lunch breaks but during weekends. In 1909 [...]

General Assembly @OCCUPYFIELD

OccupyMusic

The world is looking on the Occupy Movement with a mixture of amazement and dis-belief. With its lack of leadership, lack of coherent demands and complete rejection of violence it appears to be a completely new form of revolution. And yet its birth may be found in the efforts of Mahatma Ghandi in India some [...]

Sid and Sod

A Bit of Perth

The original Perth Observatory was constructed in 1896 and was officially opened in 1900 by John Forrest, the first premier of Western Australia. The observatory was located at Mount Eliza overlooking the city of Perth. Its chief roles were keeping Standard Time for Western Australia and meteorological data collection. The time was announced each day [...]

Bigger Than My Camera

Ficus macrophylla, commonly known as the Moreton Bay Fig, is a large evergreen banyan tree of the Moraceae family that is a native of most of the eastern coast of Australia, from the Atherton Tableland (17° S) in the north to the Illawarra (34° S) in New South Wales, and Lord Howe Island. Its common [...]

It Tickled Granny’s Fancy

  The Australian Women’s Weekly Saturday 29 November 1941

Ahhh Fuggit!

God and Sounding Profound

Reverently burgled from I Am your God

Photo Hunt, Hand Written

The Occupy Perth protest has heaps of hand written signs. Perth is lucky because everything has remained polite with the police. Elsewhere it is confusing for the authorities as there is no Leader to the movement. There is no target for them to attack. So we have seen some horrific scenes of peaceful protesters being [...]

Boozy Chocolatey Indulgence

Baileys Rocky Road Ingredients 50ml Baileys Irish Cream liqueur 200g good-quality dark chocolate, roughly chopped 150g white chocolate, roughly chopped 20g unsalted butter 1/3 cup (100g) sweetened condensed milk 50g chopped unsalted pistachio kernels 75g roughly crushed shortbread biscuits 200g mini marshmallows (or chopped regular marshmallows) Method Grease an 8cm x 20cm bar pan. Line [...]

Sid and Sod

BBC Quiz of the Week

This Week We finally got a nice warm day of 39C. Along with that we had our first bushfire of the season and lost around 30 homes! Australia is a wonderful country. Last Week Rob, Silverstar, DaisyFae and Gitwizard all finished with a share of the hat last week. 2/7 was a very popular score. [...]