So, in my last post I had a book in progress, A Cup of Light by Nicole Mones. The same author wrote The Last Chinese Chef, which I read back in 2007 and found interesting on a few levels; plot, characters and the wonderful descriptions of the food and its preparation and place in Chinese culture and…
My book list – Three and a half so far
I've never counted how many books I read in a year. But the other day I realised that I've read three already and am on the way to a fourth. I don't want the fact that I am making a list to influence how many I ultimately read. Not sure how I'm going to deal…
And suddenly it was February
Oh January, where have you gone? We rang in the new year from the comfort of our back yard with a little drink and some cheese and crackers and bits. It was a warm night and a quiet one for us. The weather has been very hot for the last month or so and the…
Annual year-end review of books on the night stand
Another year is nearly over and the rotating door for books that is my night stand is sporting a lovely and mostly new crop. A few of them are travel guides recently borrowed from the library and some of them were on the night stand last year, but are at least started. Some from last…
Food first
Well, it looks like I am doing a pretty miserable job this year in the blogging department. I might have overdone it last year and set expectations too high gentle readers! So I will just share with you one of the lovely vegetarian meals that we cooked and ate last weekend. The potato bake was…
Looks like a monthly update is all I can handle…
There seems to be a lot going on, and little time to blog about it. I'm thinking that perhaps I am too connected and a bit disjointed in my approach to social networking and blogging. I have been considering only updating my Tumblr blog MLTuckerAtLarge, which feeds to my Twitter and my Facebook and just…
An April afternoon at Cleland Wildlife Park
Visiting niece Emily had not seen a kangaroo or Koala yet after nearly 2 months in Australia and I hadn't been to Cleland in over 15 years I reckon. Clearly we are slack hosts! So today Roo, Emily and me hopped in the car and headed for the Adelaide Hills. Cleland Wildlife Park It was…
March Madness, Adelaide Style
It's almost over for me, the March madness. And it's both a relief and a cause of sadness. Relief because I need my beauty rest and sadness because the end of the festival season means the long summer evenings are soon to be gone. The Adelaide Fringe and Womadelaide are events I participate in each…
The return of Fu Fu the cat
We have a lovely, timid neighbourhood cat whose name we do not know. We call him Fu Fu because of his panda-like appearance. Think Wang Wang, Shi Shi or Yang Yang. Fu Fu comes to our garden to see our cats most days. But for the last three or four weeks we had not…
Adelaide Fringe parade cancelled due to rain
Who would have thought there would be enough rain in Adelaide in February to cancel a parade? Well no one! But rain it did, pretty much all day. The amazing king and queen were left hanging from the crane for a few hours and we grabbed this snap as we were leaving the muster area.…
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