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Friday 4 – Japanese Food

Friday 4 is a self-imposed challenge where I post four food-related photos, and only get 4 sentences to describe each one. It gets these beautiful pictures out of my backlog, and also makes me take better ones in future!

Friday 4 - Japanese Food

Extra challenge: none of these foods were actually from Japan…!

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Friday 4 - Dessert

Friday 4 is a self-imposed challenge where I post four food-related photos, and only get 4 sentences to describe each one. It gets these beautiful pictures out of my backlog, and also makes me take better ones in future!

Friday 4 - Dessert

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Banana Muffins

bananaI never thought I’d say this, but I need a break from all these special events!  It’s time for a good old-fashioned recipe post.  And when I say old-fashioned, I actually mean one from way back from before I actually knew how to cook.

Banana “bread” (really cake) is everyone’s favourite snack, sweet, filling and still kind of nutritious if you use the right ingredients.  I like mine with a bit of a crust (everyone loves muffin tops!) on the outside, and still warm from the oven.  This recipe was originally meant to make a single loaf, but I converted it to muffin form, since that’s much better for my waistline.  Just don’t laugh when you see the original source, okay?

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Friday 4 - Fresh

Friday 4 is a self-imposed challenge where I post four food-related photos, and only get 4 sentences to describe each one. It gets these beautiful pictures out of my backlog, and also makes me take better ones in future!

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Martini Masterclass at The Waiting Room (Crown Entertainment Complex, Melbourne)

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My father loves movies.  More accurately, he loves falling asleep during movies.  Barely 20 minutes into the movie (any movie!), I’d start hearing his gentle snores from the couch.  Which meant that I watched an awful lot of the same movies over and over again since Dad wouldn’t remember anything that happened in them.  But despite him being asleep most of the time, the best movies I watched with him were the James Bond series because of the great car chases and amazing gadgets.

Nowadays, the Doctor and I watch a lot of BBC series together.  The Sherlock miniseries surprised me with how faithful they were to the books (which I have loved since high school), and most obviously, we both adore Doctor Who - even if he doesn’t agree that David Tennant was the most brilliant Doctor ever.

So when I saw a competition on the Rockpool blog to win a double-pass to their Martini Masterclass, simply by commenting who I thought would be the next great Bond and Bond villain, I impulsively suggested my current BBC actors:

Benedict Cumberbatch and John Sims - my pick for the next Bond and Bond villain! Image courtesy BBC One

Benedict Cumberbatch and John Sims - my pick for the next Bond and Bond villain! Images courtesy BBC One

Now imagine my surprise when they announced that I’d actually won!

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Friday 4 – Meat

Friday 4 is a self-imposed challenge where I post four food-related photos, and only get 4 sentences to describe each one. It gets these beautiful pictures out of my backlog, and also makes me take better ones in future!

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I suppose a more accurate title for this lot of pictures is more “stuff the Doctor won’t eat” and even then, I think he might even give the last one a go.  Hope springs eternal, I guess…

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