There is no set definition for what a café is in Vancouver it seems. Some of them look like pubs to me, others like restaurants, but there are a few that match with my definition: comfy seats, dimmer lighting, warm and cold beverages, baked goods and light meals… Bliss!
My favourites in the area are [...]

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Just when I had given up hope on receiving an actual parcel to write about (and had laboriously come up with this post topic around “part and parcel” which wasn’t much chop), this arrived:

I had completely forgotten that I’d bought them on ebay. Only 99c each! They’re for the Rubik’s Cube party which I’m having [...]

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I love parcels as much as anyone. This is a great theme - made me feel happy just thinking about it. But I thought I’d wait till my birthday parcel from my mum arrived before posting, so sorry for being as slow as the slacker-flung-two ;-P.

Here it is! Not quite as many stamps as Beth’s [...]

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Initially I was going to post an entry about the pregnancy parcel. It seems that after returning from a six week holiday in Australia (insert apology for blogging slackness here), all my friends in Krakow are carrying the preggers parcel or are just popping one open. Spring is definitely in the air. The thought however [...]

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Even if a parcel isn’t yours, it’s still exciting. This was brought home to me last night when I came home to discover that Jeff’s brother Daniel’s banjo had arrived (they wouldn’t ship to Australia, so we are acting as middle-people). I knew that banjos were kind of big, but this parcel was [...]

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I am renowned in our household for being a good mimic (well, maybe just a mimic…) Whenever we walk out of a shop that’s been playing music I’m singing whatever they were playing, even if it’s just a couple of lines over and over again. I get stuff stuck in my head easily [...]

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Riding home from work yesterday, there were two startlingly gorgeous rainbow lorikeets sitting on the railing of the Harbour Bridge cycle path. They were just hanging out, unperturbed by the cyclists in their own rainbow lycra outfits whizzing past.
I have never seen any birds up there before. While it offers such an amazing view of [...]

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Ghost bus. Observed two nights ago while approaching Geylang, the red light district of Singapore.The grainy quality robs you of the sight of the ghostly swathes of chiffon covering the wheels, making the bus appear to float across the road. But the grainy quality is also appropriate for the genre of video.
Ghost sightings. How can [...]

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These are the shoes at my door.  Last Saturday, I was at Camp Cove in a sarong, last night, I was in the pub in a scarf. Somewhere in between, I was left high and dry in my football boots after the Very Social Soccer League was rained out yet again.  Not just dampened, but [...]

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