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- December 26th, 2009
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Lemon cheesecake with a gluten-free biscuit base.
In our family one of the must have foods at any celebration is a cheesecake. The recipe is Mum’s and over the years I have made this lemon cheesecake my signature dessert. I normally use a packe…
- December 23rd, 2009
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I think a knighthood is well overdue.
I don’t read that many American blogs but the ones that I do read I love to bits. My most recent discovery is Kristen, who is an entertaining writer, obsessed with her flag widget and occasional…
- December 20th, 2009
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Clancy from the other side
I am a regular reader of the Tasmanian Times. Sometimes the reading is difficult. I have lifted this with permission straight from the Tasmanian times. Mungo MacCallum Quarterly Essay, Australian Stor…
- December 18th, 2009
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Images of Tasmania 12
Images of Tasmania is an artist run exhibition held annually in the Long Gallery. The participating artists have connections to the Tasmanian School of Art, some dating back to the 1950’s, whi…
- December 15th, 2009
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I am an adult, I am more than capable of censoring myself, thankyou very much. Hmmph.
What a crock of shit! The nanny state is about to strike again. All internet in Australia will be filtered at the ISP level so that little Johnny doesn’t stumble across some porn or get pounce…
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Sign the No Clean feed petition
The Australian Government, namely Senator Stephen Conroy has given the green light for a ‘Clean Feed’ to be applied to Australian internet. News posts here, here and here. In laymens terms, this…
- December 14th, 2009
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It is always the way isn’t it.
It is always feast or famine isn’t it? The past week or so I haven’t had any words. It took me three days to write my previous post and each word was a struggle.I just kept on plodding alo…
- December 13th, 2009
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Gardening is good for your soul.
I have finally decided on the spot for Mum’s garden. I had to think about it a lot before I was happy with the position. The first spot that I had chosen was always going to be too hard to prote…
- December 6th, 2009
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Sheep are responsible for climate change.
Dust off the barbies people it is time for a lambfest. Organic of course. Apparently sheep are the cause of our global warming problems. The little woolly buggers are burping tonnes of methane into ou…
- December 3rd, 2009
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Submissions for ‘A plate a day.’
The ceramic blog, A plate a day is calling for submissions for it’s 300th plate. Bowls and platters are allowed. So these are the bowls, platters and plates that I am going to submit. This is &#…
- November 29th, 2009
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A candle for Mum.
Yesterday we attended a memorial service conducted by the palliative care people. While we were waiting for the service to start I looked around me at a sea of faces. People of all ages who were there…
- November 26th, 2009
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Exhibition update and plans for the future.
The exhibition went really well and all the work looked lovely. Veronica took lots of photos and I will post some of them here once Von has edited them. This was my first exhibition where the work was…
- November 24th, 2009
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Perspectives of Fire.
Come one, Come all. The opening is tonight and you are all very welcome to come along. The more the merrier. Veronica came into the gallery when we were setting up on Monday and took these lovely pho…
- November 23rd, 2009
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I say the same things every morning.
I need a robotic stunt double to do the morning shift for me.I am sick of saying the same things over and over to my teenage son.If I had a robotic version of myself, I could take a nice little holida…
- November 22nd, 2009
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This little piggy…
It has been very busy in the frogpondsrock household lately. Well to be be completely accurate I should say, The Spouse has been very busy, while I have just been jumping around, hugging myself with e…
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- November 17th, 2009
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The first dead albatross bowl.
The first dead albatross bowl is out of the kiln and here it is tadaaa! This is the bowl that I made in response to this photo, taken on Midway atoll by Chris Jordan. As I was working I only had a…
- November 15th, 2009
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An Artist’s Statement can be a difficult thing to write.
I need to write a quick Artist’s statement for the upcoming exhibition. So what better place to practice writing it, than here on my blog. It is hard to maintain a steady flow of words though, b…
- November 10th, 2009
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Follow your dreams.
I know that is very easy for me to say. I am a middle aged eccentric who is living her dream. It hasn’t been easy, in fact it has been very hard, but last night driving home from Chris Jordan…
- November 9th, 2009
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The first sentence is the hardest…
The first sentence of the opening paragraph sets the tone for the whole piece of writing that follows. This is even more true for a blog post where lots of people don’t actually read the whole p…
- November 8th, 2009
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All jumbled up together.
I accepted an offer for mum’s house on Thursday and all my words have vanished again. When I was trying to decide whether or not to accept the offer, I rang my daughter to see what she thought.…
- November 3rd, 2009
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How to make a dead albatross bowl.
I haven’t been able to stop thinking about Chris Jordan’s albatross photographs. I sent an email off to him asking for permission to reproduce one of his images here but I haven’t re…
- October 31st, 2009
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First impressions, commenter’s block and other assorted babble.
I find commenting on a new blog I have found quite difficult. Sometimes I will just blurt out some nonsense then quickly click publish and scurry away. Sometimes I write a comment and then second gues…
- October 26th, 2009
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The sky is blue today
I have this photo of Mum and Amy as my screensaver. I look at this photo every day but I cant bring myself to really have a proper look. If I look properly at this photo and look into my Mother’…
- October 21st, 2009
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Plastic rubbish kills baby albatrosses.
I was reading this article this morning. The photos will make you stop what you are doing and have a really good think about where the plastic that we throw away ends up. I followed the links in the a…
- October 19th, 2009
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Sometimes the words escape.
And once they have escaped, I have nearly always lost them for good. A sentence or an idea will pop into my head and I will examine its beauty, entranced by the possibilities and then the words will v…
- October 16th, 2009
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Eating gluten is poisoning my grand daughter
In the little over two weeks that Amy has had to eat gluten the change in my grand daughter’s behaviour has been quite extreme. We went to visit yesterday and found Vonnie and Nathan cleaning up…
- October 13th, 2009
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I don’t know how to start…
I need to write a three or four thousand word essay/research project in the next few weeks. I have known about this project since the beginning of the year and up until now I haven’t really give…
- October 9th, 2009
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Dairy farmers ask Tasmanians to boycott Pura milk.
National foods has decided it is only going to pay Tasmanian Dairy farmers less than 21 cents a litre for their milk. While it costs a dairy farmer about 39 cents a litre to produce a litre of milk. D…
- October 6th, 2009
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Assorted non-specific stuff.
Try saying that title without any teeth,heh. My mouth is healing up nicely and I have been able to wear my teeth for 3-4 hours at a time now. The small steps are working for me and my natural confiden…
- September 29th, 2009
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Things I see.
I think about making pots all the time.Everything I do somehow seems to lead back to ceramics.I will be doing the laundry and the swirl of the soap bubbles will spin me off into a daydream about decor…
- September 27th, 2009
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Lets talk about the weather.
The weather is always a nice safe subject. A slightly bland or even somewhat boring topic of conversation, but definitely a safe subject. On the other hand if I was to talk about cholesterol and my hu…
- September 25th, 2009
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I have stopped cooking.
I can’t remember the last time I cooked two proper evening meals in a row. By proper I mean healthy and balanced. In the last few months of Mum’s illness I was stretched really, really thi…
- September 19th, 2009
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Toothless and teary in Tasmania
If the tooth be told having multiple extractions wasn’t too bad.Dentists today are much nicer than the evil butchers that were about when I was a child. We stopped for a bit of a rest halfway th…
- September 15th, 2009
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Mashed banana, mashed banana…
Here I sit trying to think of something to say. But the words, mashed banana mashed banana are going around and around in my head. Damn those Wiggles Thankyou for your kind wishes, stories and smart…
- September 14th, 2009
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The end is nigh.
The end is nigh. The point of no return. The grand finale. This is where you, the reader can feel free to insert whatever dramatic quote you like. I was thinking of a bit of Dylan Thomas myself. Or ev…
- September 12th, 2009
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A Chinese treasure trove, ceramic horses,chainsaws and slow combustion stoves. (Not necessarily all at the same time though.)
I have had a very busy week. It was the first week of the Tasmanian School holidays and I have been flat out. Busy, busy, busy. But, I have been doing stuff for myself for a change. I went with my fri…
- September 8th, 2009
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A Wallaby and a washed window.
I washed the window in our front door yesterday. It wasn’t a burst of spring cleaning. It wasn’t because I had suddenly morphed into the housework robot. It was so I could take clearer pho…
- September 6th, 2009
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Horny birds and a rainbow coloured kite.
The calendar says it is spring. The fruit trees are blossoming, so the calendar is probably correct but the dead giveaway that we might just be edging away from the gloomy greyness that characterised…
- September 1st, 2009
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Another sad post.
If you want happy you wont find it here today. You should probably just google lolcats instead. I met with the real estate agents at Mum’s on Monday and about 5 minutes into the conversation the…
- August 30th, 2009
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A gluten free zone.
Gluten is evil. Well in regards to my granddaughter Amy, gluten is certainly the enemy. I will start at the beginning for those of you out there amongst the interwebs not able to read my mind. Veronic…
- August 26th, 2009
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Fear.
If I am honest with myself, I will admit that Ehlers Danlos Syndrome frightens the shit out of me. I try not to think too deeply about the long term prospects this disorder has for my children and my…
- August 21st, 2009
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A post where I abuse a troll, vent my spleen and swear a lot.
Tired, I am tired today. Tired of worrying about my daughter. Tired of trying to keep my shit together. Tired of being strong. Tired of being nice. But mostly I am tired of cowardly fuckwits like anyo…
- August 18th, 2009
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Down at Mum’s
I don’t know how many times I have answered the question,” Where is Veronica or where is David?” with,”Down at Mum’s.” Easily a gazillion times. As I am writing thi…
- August 17th, 2009
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How not to make hoummus.
I am a fly by the seat of your pants cook and ninety five percent of the time we arrive unscathed at our culinary destination.Five percent of the time I crash and burn and it is a culinary disaster.Ve…
- August 15th, 2009
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The random number generator has spoken…
And the winner is comment number 4. Congratulations to Liz. I would like to thank everyone that entered.Some of your comments made me smile, some made me teary but they all made me think deep thoug…
- August 9th, 2009
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I asked for inspiration…
And I got it.Bucketloads of inspiration.The artisitic ideas are whizzling away inside my head at a rate of knots. Thankyou. Liz suggested that I make something that your mum would have just loved, pou…
- August 7th, 2009
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Porcelain slip,cancer and a giveaway.
I have been experimenting with porcelain lately. Porcelain has a lovely transluscent quality and porcelain pieces, done well, have a subtle glow about them. It is also bastard stuff to work with. It r…
- August 4th, 2009
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Fragmented thoughts
I was updating my ‘about me’ page and I added a line that simply said, ” … and my grief has stolen all my words” I have been looking at the sky. I have been working. I am…
