December 2009

A Journey of a Thousand Miles – Part One

by vix 8 December 2009

“…begins with a single step”, said Lao-Tsu.

A journey of 11000 miles from New Zealand to live in England with your lovely Englishman starts with a single step AND AT LEAST £15,000! Says me.  Read more... (1672 words, 1 image, estimated 6:41 mins reading time)

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Dear Diary…

by vix 1 December 2009

Dear Diary 1984

“It’s hard being a teenager. Some people tell you to grow up and others tell you to stay a child for as long as you can. Your best friend isn’t always your best friend and people you thought you could trust, well you can’t. School is hard too. Everyone’s so bitchy. They’re all so bright, and you’re so thick. People grow up so quickly around you. One day they’re laughing and joking and the next they’re all serious and mature. The public all think ‘there’s a teenager!’ like it’s a dirty word. Other people are pretty, and bright and so popular they make you sick. Sometimes you wish a guy would turn up on the horizon, but how is that possible when guys don’t even like you? I wonder if there is a happy ever after. It’s so hard being you sometimes because all the things you want to be, get mixed up and you lose track of who you are…”  Read more... (960 words, 1 image, estimated 3:50 mins reading time)

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Whipping up a little Christmas treat!

by vix 1 December 2009

I’m a complete pushover! So no surprises then that I’ve volunteered (‘no’ isn’t in my vocabularly) for a family Christmas dinner before the kids take off to NZ on the 18th. You would have thought that I could have taken it easy this year with only the Englishman and myself to worry about (oh, and the fur babies!), but no, I’ve invited the Englishman’s parents, his brother, his brother’s kids, his brother’s girlfriend and her kids for Christmas dinner. That’s a total of 7 children/teenagers and 6 adults for lunch.

So I started organising a menu of sorts last night and sat down with all the battered and splattered cookbooks of Christmases past. I always go through the routine of looking through the cooking magazines though I rarely deviate from a couple of tried and true recipes. Until now that is.

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