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Easter - done✓ Now I can relax
This is Australia. It's not spring, it's autumn. So there is no connection to the symbolism of the pagan fertility, or the Christian...
7 days ago
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Food for the soul - religion in the curriculum
"Our life is made by the death of others." Leonardo da Vinci I have been avoiding moving on through my food curriculum recently because...
Jun 15, 2024
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Dragons, money, luck ...
"the more dumplings you eat, the richer you’ll get." Jennifer Wong/The Guardian Chinese New Year began yesterday, but the big Melbourne...
Feb 11, 2024
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I need a bigger table
"Christmas is coming the geese are getting fat." nursery rhyme This is a roast goose. It used to be what we ate at Christmas, but I...
Nov 16, 2023
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Fiddling around with THE cake
"These cakes, which are half pudding, half cakes can never fail. If they are undercooked they make a fine dessert with cream. They are...
Aug 22, 2023
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Wee drams
Dram "a small amount of a strong alcoholic drink, especially whisky" Cambridge English Dictionary "A pour of alcohol. The amount is...
Jul 24, 2023
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A French lunch on Bastille Day
"It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?" A. A....
Jul 15, 2023
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The many paradoxes of May Day
"A time of betwixt and between, a night the veil between the worlds thinned and witches were at their most powerful." Gather Victoria...
May 1, 2023
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Knafeh
The picture above is from the latest Coles Magazine and featured in their Cooking Club segment - in which one of the' ordinary' people...
Apr 16, 2023
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Twelfth night
"On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me A partridge in a pear tree." It's Twelfth Night. Well the day that my family...
Jan 6, 2023
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An oldie but a goodie - Pollo alla Romana con peperoni
"a time to interrupt all ordinary activities and get some rest." Toni Brancatisano Following on yesterday's analysis of what you can...
Oct 28, 2022
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Good Friday, and the Lamb of God
so many questions Let me say up front that I am not at all religious. However I was brought up a Christian - a good Church of England...
Apr 15, 2022
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It's Friday
“Friday's a free day. A woman's day.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods I'm starting with that quote, though really I have no idea what it...
Mar 11, 2022
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Lucky dip harira and Ramadan
"Ramadan is not a complete fast at all, but a strict discipline between the hours of sun-up and sun-down: at night there is feasting." ...
Apr 19, 2021
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The shock of the new
"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." Seneca Back to my arty desk calendar. Yesterday it was the Mona Lisa - the...
Apr 6, 2021
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