"You're so dodgy" my friend said to me when I told her how I'd once jumped the queue to get into the Marigold in Sydney's Chinatown. "If you go up the escalator, there's a goods lift which takes you to the kitchen area, and you just walk through", I told her. We were on the … Continue reading The Longest Queue
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It takes you about half an hour to drive from the centre of Tumut to the restaurant’s location. You could probably do it faster, but it was raining today, sometimes quite heavily and so we drove a little more cautiously. Thankfully, there were very few cars on the road. However, there are narrow winding bits, … Continue reading Tumut
You know you're having a good time when you ask a friend what the time is, and at first neither of you is really sure. You've been together since 11 o'clock, and you're both surprised to discover it's 5 o'clock. You've been enjoying each others company so much, you've simple lost track of time. My … Continue reading History and Food
"Have you been here for long?", I asked the waiter at "The Loft" earlier tonight. "Four years for the current owner, but about thirty years overall", he replied. I wondered to myself if maybe I'd been there before, but had completely forgotten. Or maybe it was called something else. Either way, it was a genuine … Continue reading My Preferences
I spent a fair bit of this weekend napping. It's not like I've been working excessively long hours, or going out "clubbing" (heaven forbid), I've just been feeling a bit tired this weekend. By nature, I'm an introvert, and that usually means socialising really tires me out. Despite having gone into a career which involves … Continue reading Catching Up (On Sleep)
"Has Mikkelsen ever been so good?" was the headline in the Swedish newspaper, Aftonbladet this week. Mads Mikkelsen (who is also featured in the film currently screening, "Chaos Walking) is the main actor in the film, "Another Round". In Danish, the film was called "Druk", which means binge-drinking. Partially funded by the Swedish Film Institute, … Continue reading Binge Drinking