Footpaths. Some roads only have one running down them (how annoying is that?!), some are mossy, some house junk waiting to be given a new more appreciative home, some have bird mosaics on them….

These beauties are on the corner of Adanac Street and Lakewood Drive along the ‘Mosaic’ cycleway that runs through East Vancouver. [...]

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These are the Christmas decorations on my little corner of the earth, hung on my window, and as seen from the street:

I could have made them. But I didn’t.
I actually heard someone walking past saying “I wonder if that’s Tabitha’s place”. Spooky.
Up in the Blue Mountains there’s one house in Leura which has gone crazy [...]

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A couple of nights before Christmas, I set out, armed only with a camera phone, aiming to capture the ultimate images of Singapore’s Christmas decorations to meet this week’s theme. I’ll put an end to your suspense by admitting straight up that I fell short of my goal, both in the quality of the pictures [...]

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Our theme for this week is Christmas decorations (the random number generator needed a holiday so we selected it ourselves).  Spurred on by noseyinnewtown’s latests posts, I almost don’t know where to start because there have been lots of cool decorations around the ‘Couv for the festive season…
I think my personal favourite is the bus [...]

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When I think of everyday, I think of mornings, and the routine of them. And when I think of mornings, I think immediately of these things, which sit on my bench (but which could not be photographed there due to poor lighting):

Clockwise from left:

 My Zabar’s mug, US$1 from New York. Best shop ever, best mug [...]

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I had a cute idea for this theme, a lil bit like Beth’s. Over the week, I was gonna take five photos of things that happen every day, and five pics of things that don’t. But with the non-everyday arrival of inlaws (ie Finn-mad grandparents) a bunch of heavy cognitive psych readings and a [...]

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I have been craft hungry of late. So Michal dragged the kitchen table into the living room where it could be stretched to its full size, and I have been crafting it up. Despite the crafty intensity on Klonowica Street, not one person will get their Christmas card on time.

It has been [...]

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I thought I’d celebrate this week’s theme of ‘everyday’ by writing a big list of everything I did for seven days, and then write about the things I did everyday. But that got a bit boring. However some good things came out of it - I used the list as a way of [...]

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As a non-meat eater I don’t crave meat at all. But what I do crave is the opportunity to douse my food stuffs in tomato sauce. In my youth, my meat consumption revolved around sauce: devon and sauce sandwiches from the school canteen, grilled cutlets and sauce, roast chicken and sauce rolls, chicken schnitzel and [...]

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Aiya.
Living in Asia you have a lot of trouble trying to eat ethically produced meat. I know you vegetarians complain a lot about trying to eat meat-free here, and it’s certainly warranted - the number of times I’ve seen pork on the vegetarian menu… But at least the concept of vegetarianism has usually been introduced [...]

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