Vintage New Farm

Vintage New Farm

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30.4.09

If hubby and I were going out for dinner tonight, we'd consider popping over to New Farm ~ home of some of the best café dining in Brisbane ~ and just going where our noses lead us.This precinct still exists, but the vintage of this painting {lucky I cellared it well} means that Indigo restaurant...

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Pandering to Watch Obsessions

Pandering to Watch Obsessions

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23.4.09

If I had enough moolah to invest in this Panda timepiece from Cartier's Le Cirque Animalier collection ~ as gorgeous as it is ~ I'd spend it on saving real Pandas. I suspect it would convert to a lot of bamboo. But I'm happy to still appreciate its beauty from afar. Cartier created this special...

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Russell Crowe Wins Over Tights

Russell Crowe Wins Over Tights

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22.4.09

by SHELL SHERREEPoor Russell Crowe. What a brouhaha. So he's been wearing his fat pants again. All for his art, of course. After all, he's had back to back roles where a little extra baggage on the front and rear of the carriage added appropriate weight to his performances.And yet sometime...

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Brunches Inc.

Brunches Inc.

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19.4.09

Autumn outside. If you live up north, Spring outside. Either way, it's a gorgeous time for brunch. Maybe a table set out in the garden. Or a rooftop garden. Or just a rooftop, if you're a bit eccentric and like living dangerously. Why not!A worn, frayed linen sheet serving as a tablecloth. Perhaps...

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Hold the Billy Bob and Pass the Gravy

Hold the Billy Bob and Pass the Gravy

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15.4.09

by SHELL SHERREEOh, I do wish Miss Mild Manners wasn't still on Easter holidays.If Billy Bob Thornton's recent behaviour during a Canadian radio interview is anything to go by, I understand why the position of Wife Number Six is still vacant. {I'm sure his aversion to silver flatware, French antiques...

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Fairy Cake Detox Diet

Fairy Cake Detox Diet

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14.4.09

Fairy cakes. That's my philosophy on how to start a gradual detox after Easter. Rather than risk sending the body into some kind of vegetable juice imposed shock, detox gradually via fairy cakes, cupcakes, patty cakes... these contain an ideal ratio of plain cake to sugar-rush content for this...

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Happy Chooks and Honey-Bunnies

Happy Chooks and Honey-Bunnies

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9.4.09

The Easter Bunnies have it easy. No wonder this one's tiptoeing on eggshells. Spare a thought for all those chooks, busily providing Easter Eggs and never complaining about the added discomfort of the foil wrapping. And speaking of these dear little animals, the RSPCA {Australia} has made a sweet...

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Hogwarts Pineapple Express

Hogwarts Pineapple Express

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8.4.09

by SHELL SHERREEUnfortunately, most of the good potshots have probably been taken by now about one of the stars of the Harry Potter movies allegedly being arrested for possession of ... pot. {In fact, you'll find this post to be rather brief because I'm desperate to finish it before my own title...

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Dear Miss Mild Manners, writes Mr Q Tarantino of Hollywood

Dear Miss Mild Manners, writes Mr Q Tarantino of Hollywood

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5.4.09

Deer Miss Mild MannersHave ewe ever bean in a position where you wrote a script at brake-neck speed so the film could be finished in time for the Carn Film Festival and your spell-check didn't work and you assyoumed Some-Godamm-Won out of all the assistance, editors ~ frick, any old basterd ~ wood...

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Inaugural Pointy-topped Doo-dad Part 2

Inaugural Pointy-topped Doo-dad Part 2

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2.4.09

And not to be forgotten, the ultimate New York Pointy-topped doo-dad: The Chrysler Building on the corner of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue, a gorgeous Art Deco skyscraper. A bit like this, but shiny. Very shiny. Not to mention it also has gargoyles, inspired by hood ornaments and also very...

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Inaugural Pointy-topped Doo-dad

Inaugural Pointy-topped Doo-dad

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2.4.09

I've discovered quite a penchant for architectural and decorative features I fondly call Pointy-topped doo-dads. Alexa at The Road is Mine is kindly photographing plenty of New York Pointy-topped doo-dads for me and kindred PTDD connoisseurs to appreciate, with links to more supplied by witty and...

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