Posted in Uncategorized, tagged advertisements, essence, food, price of food, vintage on May 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
You can hardly talk to anyone these days without the price of food coming up in conversation.
Here’s a solution from back in the day: butter essence! Simply replace the butter in your recipe with dripping or lard, or margarine, and add a few drops of Hansell’s Imitation Butter Food Flavouring.
The advertorial above, and [...]
Posted in Kids, recipe on May 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I made a quick batch of playdough for Beetle this morning, which she used to make a small forest.
I get bored with rolling pins and helping lever out wonky cookie-cutter shapes, so I like to give Beetle a bowl full of bits and pieces to play with. Lately, I’ve been going through my ‘whole spices’ [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
We tried to order Hell Pizza the other night only to hear the voicemail message saying that “the fires of hell have been quenched” at Northcross, our local shop. It seems the franchisee who owned Northcross, Great North Rd, and Forrest Hill, Birkenhead closed them down early this month
Which is a dreadful pity because I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Albany, chickengate, chickens, cull on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The ruckus continues about the chicken cull in Kell Park.
They sent gunmen out to shoot chickens. Again. With appalling timing – during the school holidays, and again this week on the same morning as the preschooler’s Rhymetime at the library. Accompanying the gunmen were police – depending on which Herald article you read, these [...]
Posted in Kids on May 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Beetle used the construction area of kindy for the first time yesterday, after two whole terms. It tends to be monopolised by the boys, so I was very excited to see her proudly holding her wooden creation when I arrived at mat time.
Yep, she broke through the gender lines at the building table to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
We had a lovely lunch today for Mothers Day. My sister and I had briefly considered taking Mum to the special High Tea at the Langham Hotel, but the discovery that it was $49 a head put a sharp stop to that, since it would have cost $200 to take just Mum, my brother, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m quite fond of my Flybuys card. Earning points while doing my regular shopping is fine, but the best part by far is imagining the cool stuff I could use those points for.
Therefore, I was filled with excitement when I saw the lovely animated Flybuys advertisement on TV – one of the dreamed-of [...]
