So, it’s the end of the year as we know it, which is absolutely terrifying to me. We’ve spent the last year running around like crazy, getting our science on, moving house (and city, kind of), moving job and generally practicing being grownups (ok, not trying so hard- but some of us turned OLD 30 this year).
Here’s a quick run-down of what we’ve been up to in the last year or so.
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This year’s Christmas tree was a bit of a rush compared to the ‘homemade pastels’ of last year, the ‘grey and red knit‘, or even the ‘guesthouse miniature’ of our very first family Northern Hemisphere Christmas.
And so, ok, I went back to my default setting of ‘RED!’ Read More
This year, I became obsessed with the idea of making things for Christmas. You’ve seen the traditional cookies, but it extended beyond that. Read More
I’m pretty excited that this year I finally managed to get together the ingredients and equipment to make my family’s traditional Christmas cookies. Read More
Today is Andy’s Birthday, so it seems fitting to let him regale you of another tale of Poland.
We were fortunate to enjoy one of the last really great sunny weekends of the year during our visit to Warsaw. Read More
So, I know that Halloween is well and truly over.
I know that some among us are well on their way to embracing Thanksgiving, that some more of us are getting slightly nervous about the rapidly approaching Christmas season, and that almost all of us are feeling particularly concerned about the fact that another year has whizzed on by.
But because of that whizzing, I still didn’t get a chance to show you how pretty we were on halloween. So here goes. Read More
Hi there, and thanks for stopping by the new and improved moved Fishwithwhiskey. Read More
Hi all,
I finally managed to convince Andy- the mostly silent partner of FishwithWhiskey- to do a guest post.
I just feel like he is more in touch with the Fatherland/Poland than me- given that it is actually the land of his forfathers.
Here goes: Read More
I guess anyone who knows me won’t be too surprised to see that one of my first Polish posts is about Pączki.
These delicious, sweet, perfectly-fried-fluffed-and-filled delicacies, pronounced more like ‘pOnchki’ than ‘pac-see’, are Poland’s version of a jam-filled doughnut (or Berliner).
But let me tell you friends, the word doughnut just doesn’t cover it.
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You get to lie to inform people about drop bears. You get to surprise your foreign friends with Vegemite (and now, even Vegemite chocolate). You rarely have to cancel holidays because of rain.
But one of the crappiest things about being Aussie, is how far Aussie-land is from everywhere else. Read More
