Archive for the ‘endings and beginnings’ Category

i have noticed that i’ve got a bit of a routine happening when i travel these days (and i have been doing a lot of it); those things i end up seeking out or doing without realising it when i’m moving myself around in places other than my local corridor. and i do them at [...]


it’s nights like tonight i remember i’m living in the biggest city in australia. something i forget as i seem to spend nearly all my life at the moment between central station and enmore park. it’s like my life takes place in this corridor, which i rarely leave, even to go earn money. it all [...]


great minds

22Jun08

i made my stock standard vegan chocolate cake as my contribution to a night of knitting and crochet in the cross. no icing even, just a plain and simple cake. lisa made a chocolate ripple cake (it felt like there was more dessert than main course)… of all of us there none bar lisa had [...]


leaven ‘levn → n. 1. a substance added to dough to make it ferment and rise, especially yeast, or fermenting dough reserved for the purpose. 2. (a) a pervasive transforming influence (cf. Matthew 13:33). (b) [foll. by of] a tinge or admixture of a specified quality. → v.tr. 1. ferment (dough) with leaven. 2. (a) [...]


full house

10Mar08

settling into my new home with food is a good thing. tonight the full contingent was home and we three ladies ate together (around the table! knives and forks!). this is fried tofu, spinach and soba noodles with a mushroom sauce. it was a plateful of tasty vegan goodness. fried tofu cut a block of [...]


its march in adelaide. the busy time, the hot time, the festival time, the time when things happen. a time of anniversaries of things past. lunch today with beth, who i started working in the deep dark depths of the public service with eight years ago about this time of year. so much has passed, [...]


downtown diner makes for a fun evening. the arrival of a bequested car combined with some good taste in music meant dinner at the downtown diner, ashford, kent, england, watching lots of little adults watch jeffrey lewis and co tell stories and makre music. we all opted for the vege burgers (bean or vegetable) and [...]


with a vegan meal on the flight from sydney to tokyo. it feels like so long ago now, but it was beans, broccolli, rice\risoni. and what looks like a bloody mary on the side, which would have been very mcuh appreciated by that point! good food, good service and all. and an early early morning [...]


backyard lunching it’s taken a while to process, but my feet are actually back in australia, and i have been thinking lots about more impending travels. and there’s something in my belly that’s not making eating that pleasant an experience, although i am perserveing lots. the downside of the whirlwind time i’ve spent in australia [...]



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