As the weather gets colder I’m more keen to snooze and snuggle under the covers, even after the alarm clock has beeped three times, and if I don’t get up, the housemates will take advantage of my lapse to jump into the shower before I do. This morning I was half tempted to text Zab, ...

It’s quite the unstated rule that when one is IKEA, one must ride the bulky items trolley at high velocity at least once, no matter age, size or tolerance for risk.

I’m not a very Christmassy person, and don’t usually indulge in candied fruit pastries, but Matthew’s enthusiasm for the season, which increases with every minute closer to Christmas Day, is rather infectious. So yes, I like fruit mince pies, now, and the occasional non-alcoholic fruit cake; and I foresee lovely and loving celebrations ahead.Image:

From Sculpture by the Sea in November.This is straight out of the camera, on Kodak Ektachrome 100VS (positive) film, Canon 1N, 50mm 1.4. I love the colours, and depth of field of a full frame SLR.Image:

It’s hard to believe that the same government conglomerate, part of which encourages us to recycle, reuse, save the environment! can also consist of several sky-high hurdles that rely on physical paperwork, of which you have already converted to email delivery to save the poor trees that are felled, mulched into pulp and bleached to ...

Just a post to satisfy my internet cravings.I still haven’t gotten an iPhone. That’s because I’ve been saving work money to upgrade my camera, probably to a Canon 5D (1st release). Prices for the 40D have plummeted since the new 50D was released and shipped. It’s tempting to get a 40D, I admit. The 40D ...

A framing shop opened down the road earlier this year. Being a quiet suburb, not many people except nosy retirees and tradespeople wandered into the shop. I was quite sceptical and had been ready to give some wholesale framers a call, having gained some contacts at my stint in a photo studio for six months. ...

It’s finally finished. Rather, the first stage has been completed.1Now known as the longest web project ever, Matthew’s food blog, Wild Thyme and Sweet Pea, is at last for public viewing and drooling (hoping that the photos will make you drool in front of your screens). It’s been a year since we began plotting ideas, ...

I thought of Sara’s post at the city Starbucks today. In place of a beer-bellied man was a woman in her forties going on sixteen, with bleached, blow-dried hair, a leopard print wool coat, black pants, open-toed clogs and bright red acrylic toenails, plump possibly collagen-injected lips covered in pink shiny lip gloss. She was ...

Gizmo, Mel’s beloved Maltese Shih-tzu, sporting a winter coatHis fur is his get-out-of-jail-free card.