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Tales from a Café Chick

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A totally self-indulgent blog about things I like, dislike, or just feel like blogging about.

Added on: Jul 9th, 2008
Country: New Zealand
Language: English

Author: Café Chick
Listed in: Personal Blogging
Tags: books music food baking 101 goals café chick

Recent Posts

Christmas cheer

Posted on Saturday December 5th, 2009 at 00:17 in christmas

Tis the season for Christmas mayhem. Personally, I prefer to ignore the mass commercialism that bombards us from October each year; it's not what Christmas is really about.This year, Christmas is going to be very different for my family. Our whole ex...
The system is down

Posted on Wednesday December 2nd, 2009 at 20:26 in technology, shopping, tales

I was at Warehouse Stationery this afternoon looking to buy a diary for 2010. A few people were already waiting at the counter so I browsed for a while before hearing those dreaded words: "your card has been declined". An embarrassed customer asked t...
The Color Purple - Alice Walker

Posted on Tuesday December 1st, 2009 at 14:42 in books

The Color Purple (1982) is a Pulitzer prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, an American author who has written at length on issues of race and gender. I first became aware of the story after watching the movie of the same name many years ago. The nove...
Café Chick\'s 2nd birthday

Posted on Saturday November 28th, 2009 at 15:26 in café chick

Today is Café Chick's second birthday. Gosh, time flies when you're having fun! It doesn't seem like two years since I first said hi to the blogosphere back in 2007, and my first birthday might have only been a month or so ago! Help yourself to a vi...
The YouTube Game

Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 02:03 in music, video, songs

A friend of ours likes to play The YouTube Game at parties. Apparently it involves someone choosing a genre, or a decade, or a musical style, or a key word (or something else) and types it into YouTube, then plays the first song that comes up in the ...
A Monk Swimming - Malachy McCourt

Posted on Sunday November 22nd, 2009 at 14:14 in books

I realise that it's bad form to start any kind of review with words along the line of, "I loved the writing/music/art/work of so-and-so, so wondered if his brother/sister/mother/auntie was any good", etc. I shudder to think that anyone would compare ...