Happy Birthday to the Golden Gate Bridge, Jamie Oliver & me!!

Yup, birthday time!! Bring out the hats and par-tey like its May 27!! Okay I realise that this means little to anyone else who doesn’t have something special happen today. But it’s my birthday. And Jamie Oliver’s. And 72 years ago, it was the first time that people walked on the Golden Gate bridge. And [...]

A delectable pink

I love food, certainly. But sometimes I think what attracts me to cooking that it feels so much like a scientific experiment. Next to languages, science was easily my one of my favourite subject, especially chemistry. (Actually I liked everything but civics, I’m such a nerd that way!) I still vividly remember the countless times [...]

That sweet thing about bread

It is one of the strange realities of life. When we’re young, we can’t wait to grow up. And then the older we get, the younger we want to be. There is apparently, that subtle tipping of the scales when we turn thirty. Not that I hate being my age right now, but I believe [...]

The soulful egg

The current economy is taking its toll and no one is immune from its effects. While there are changes in weather and joys in spring, some part of me seems chilled in a grip of melancholy and in my head there’s a strident head-ache. Actually that latter thing could also have a lot to do [...]

Green as ice-cream

It seems as an architect entirely too much of my time is spent wrestling with printers. And it seems in my young life I’ve had to deal with all kinds, inkjet, laserjet and my perennial favourite, the large-format plotter. Ever tried printing a drawing on a dot-matrix printer? I’ve had the dubious honour of having [...]

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