March 2010

101 uses of Vegemite!

31 March 2010

let’s get something clear straight off – Vegemite is like Pavlova, Crowded House, Phar Lap, and Keith Urban – the Aussies try to nick it and claim it as their own!

Vegemite is a yeast extract, not at all like Marmite! It is way, way superior!!

Marmite will strip all your tastebads off your tongue, Vegemite will honey them with a sweet good-for-you inky lacquor

Vegemite came about as a substitute for Marmite when supplies ran out in Australia during the war. It’s made from yeast leftover from the beer brewing process. As we know being Australia, where the population spreads most of its time laid out like a lizard drinking – there’s a lot of the stuff on which to build a product.

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Outside my front door

31 March 2010

For Tara Cain’s gallery this week, the prompt was: ‘Outside your front door’

This beautiful flax plant is in our front garden. Nothing unusual about that except, I was really surprised to see it when I first arrived at the house. Flax is an incredibly important plant in the Maori culture in New Zealand. In the past it has been used as clothing (flax skirts) and as a material for making carrying bags (kete).

It grows everywhere in NZ, but I didn’t expect to see it here in England.

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A pain in the arse!

30 March 2010

This pain in my head is a pain in the arse.

I’m sorry I haven’t blogged today. I’ve been in bed, shaking. I haven’t been able to see the keyboard, let alone the screen of my laptop, and man did I want to. Every ray of sunlight through the curtain was a vicious shard of glass that tore at my retinas.

Too sharp.

I haven’t had a migraine like this for such a long time.

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Sweet Fourteen and never been kissed?

29 March 2010

My girl’s cheeks were flushed red as she bounced in the door.

Dark Princess, doesn’t walk. She bounces. Like a hyperactive Tigger. Yes, that badly!

Her school tie hung over her left shoulder all akimbo and her hair was stylishly half pulled into a crap chignon as if she can’t be bothered, but really did care!

“How was your day?” I asked cautiously. I knew there was news.

She blushed.

“Well, at lunchtime, I went up to Nick and was talking to him and he kissed me!”

Bloody hell!

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Madness takes control

29 March 2010

Will I or won’t I?

Feeling betwixt and between this morning. You see The Mads, a new blogging awards programme has been announced here in the United Kingdom and I have an uneasy feeling. It’s not the awards itself. I admire the incredible amount of work my pals Josie, Sally, Karen and Emily have put into getting it all organised. The website looks brilliant – all that swearing at CSS was worth it Sally!

I just don’t know if my highly strung, competitive self can cope with being involved.

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Making your own path

29 March 2010

“Failure is taking the path that everyone else does, success is making your own path.”


Another inspirational post as part of Cate’s Sunday share at Moments of Whimsy. Go and have a look at her gorgeous photos.

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Nothing makes me happy!

27 March 2010

Am I a miserable old tart?

I mean honestly. I’ve been sitting here for hours, procrastinating. I don’t want to write this post because I honestly can’t think of anything.

I cannot think of anything that makes me happy!

Really?

You see dear Heather at eggscreamhoney wrote this lovely post about all the gorgeous things that make her happy and then she tagged me, her fellow expat, to do likewise. And I’m stuck.

I’ve got moans. Oh yes I could write moans for days.

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Interesting times

27 March 2010

I am cursed!!

For I am an interesting woman, living in interesting times. I’ve been tagged by Susie at New Day New Lesson with the Kreativ blogger meme, that celebrates the unique journey we each take through life.

Here’s 7 interesting things you may not know about Vegemitevix.

1/I lived in a remote gold mining community called Vatakoula, on the island of Viti Levu in Fiji in the seventies as a young kid. In the years my family lived there we experienced – two house fires, a burglary, a severe hurricane (we sheltered under the house as a tree fell through the roof), a miner’s strike and riots, almost being airlifted out. It was a very interesting time.

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Darling dirty wife

26 March 2010

Dear Husband

You really are a fantastic bloke and I love you more than chocolate. In fact you and chocolate have a great deal in common – my undying love, my appetite, your strength..

You really are a great bloke! I just have a little niggle. It’s a wee one. Could we possibly have our bathroom recommissioned for the weekend?

I know you were extremely concerned that the wet plasterboard behind the tiles would mean that the wall would collapse and the house would fall down, so you removed said tiles and set the heater in the bathroom to full blast. That was last Saturday.

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Friday Funny-An Eyeful

26 March 2010

It was hot and muggy.

Sweat poured down the back of my neck as I pushed the pram towards the group of Brisbane Mums sitting with their babies under the outstretched arms of the Jacaranda tree. Purple flowers carpeted the ground at their feet. I could feel my boobs stinging impatiently with milk under my crisp white linen shirt.

I’d even ironed the shirt!

My baby girl was dressed in the cutest little designer dress resplendent with matching cotton booties.

She was a doll.

Albeit a very hungry dolly!

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