My New Interest – Eat Real Food
February 15th, 2010 - 11:39 pmA few weeks ago when the Apple iPad was announced, a friend of mine showed some interest in it as a way of buying and reading books. She’s an avid reader of books, and I got the impression that her main interest was that electronic books don’t take up any space in your home or [...]
Match and beat
January 30th, 2010This evening I changed the Word Press theme I’m using from a magazine style layout to a classic blog style where each blog is seen in full on the blog home page and follow one another in chronological order. As always, you can search for something in the Search feature in the navigation bar [...]
The impact of the iPad
January 29th, 2010The iPad has now been in the news for a couple of days, so it’s time I made a few observations. My first sight of it was when I got an email from Apple introducing the iPad. The following image was at the top of the email, and it gave me concerns about the [...]
Pressure Cooking with Induction Cooker
January 11th, 2010This post is not a review of a beer. The photo shows what was left of a small bottle of ale after I poured 250ml (1 cup) of Amber Ale into my Kuhn Rikon 2 litre pressure cooker frypan to cook an 818gm (1.8 pound) piece of low fat beef to well done, in [...]
Reilly’s Ryder Basket Pressed Shiraz 2008
January 4th, 2010Happy New Year to all who visit this page.
This is my first post since Boxing Day. It introduces an entirely new category for my blog pages. It’s a subject that has been very dear to me since 1967 when my boss of the day took me to lunch and insisted I drink red wine with [...]
Reading the OED
December 26th, 2009Apart from the lead up to Christmas Day, this past week has seen a very interesting sequence of events for me, because so many things seemed to come together this week regarding the OED – and Christmas Day. Even my post on Christmas Day, in which I had to look up the OED on my [...]
Merry Christmas, Chainsaw Man-ual
December 26th, 2009Today, for Christmas Day, I went to Matthew and Joy’s place for lunch with their family and friends. At the lunch Matthew gave me the present he’d intended to give me for my birthday last month, but for one reason or another (mainly distance) he wasn’t able to hand it to me until [...]
Christmas at Chadstone
December 17th, 2009Yesterday in Melbourne the maximum temperature exceeded 39C in a day of extreme fire danger in country areas, and it was hot overnight. But today the temperature only reached 23C, and it was heavily overcast and raining when I drove to Chadstone shopping centre to battle the Christmas shopping crowds (shown above) to get a copy of [...]
Serendipity
December 12th, 2009It’s strange how things sometime develop in a certain way without any planning. But everything falls into place by chance.
For quite some time now I’ve been trying to find a new name for my blog page without any success. I wanted to develop a different image from The Silver Fox, or The Chain Saw Man [...]
Themes
December 6th, 2009On Friday afternoon I decided to look for a new free WordPress theme to try out just for a change from my usual Thesis theme. Now and again I like to do this to show visitors that the way the page looks is not set in concrete. It’s how I like it. [...]
Times are a changing
November 29th, 2009Things are changing in my life.
For example, here’s a photo of what I had for lunch today.
It’s a salad with ham, salad leaves, tomato, cucumber and a peppery carrot salad (from the recipe in Suzanne Gibbs in The Pressure Cooker Recipe Book). However, in this case the carrots were cooked on the Breville Induction cooker [...]
Guess who?
November 25th, 2009Here’s my star of this week, and possibly of the year.
Do you know who it is? Her CD was released this week.
10 December update
It is, of course, Susan Boyle, and the photo is from her CD, which has got a lot of publicity this week, what with the advertising on TV and the Today Tonight segment about [...]
Poached egg
November 20th, 2009
Induction hobs 7 – the Breville BIC200
November 8th, 2009
Induction hobs 6
November 6th, 2009
Frustration
November 6th, 2009
Induction hobs 5
November 3rd, 2009