The Mezzanine

Well, I lasted nine months. Which is eight and a half months longer than most of my New Years resolutions...


I haven't done any recipes for a while. And I keep on getting behind on photos. And... I'm not going to keep berating myself for it.

As it is, I've improved my cooking skills and confidence in the kitchen - which was the point of that. And I've started noticing a lot more pretty things around me, and whipping out my camera spontaneously more - which was the point of that. So it worked.


Sorry, guys - I think I'm letting them lapse. I'll still get photos and recipes up from time to time, but I'm not keeping to a set schedule right now.

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In other news:
- my housemates have moved out
- I have a new tv
- my new jobs are awesome
- I'm learning Indonesian, Latin, and French, and wishing I had enough time to revise my German and Auslan
- the world is extremely rainy
- Leverage is really fun

More photos!


Day 232:


I seem to remember, when I was younger, everyone had a collection of spoons from the different locations they'd visited...

This was a more unusual way of displaying them, and I found it rather interesting.


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I really was planning on getting this out weekly, again. Unfortunately, I'm just not that organised.


Day 211:


A game of Scrabble. (Which I won.)

I think I was proudest of getting "equip".


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Day 183:


This is a food court that's supposed to look like a village.

It's pretty fun, actually. There's a single menu, and they bring food out to your table - like a restaurant - but it's got lots of different food options that you go and order - like a food court. I had mango chicken and garlic naan bread. 'Twas all extremely yummy.


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(Belated photos are belated.)

Day 169:


We went to a wedding at St Jude's - which is an old church in the city that still looks old (stained glass windows, and so forth), but also has been redecorated in funky colours.

This wall didn't look quite so green when I was there...


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Yes, I know I'm late again...

Day 155:


This is a silent auction. In a very LOUD location.

(We were at a trivia night. I was taking photos on my phone because I'd forgotten my camera - hence the not-so-interesting nature of the picture. Sidenote: isn't it weird that these days I can lose my camera, shrug, and use my backup camera?)


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This week's photos are rather late again... (Someday I will be punctual, I swear.)

Day 141:


This is... a sheep. A ceramic garden sheep. Kinda like a garden gnome.

I asked Mum why on earth someone would buy a garden sheep, and she said "...to keep the grass short - at least if it was a real one."
We concluded that the garden sheep, being ceramic, needed to go in a garden of fake grass, to keep that nicely trimmed.


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Here are some more photos...

Day 127:


Here's me! In a photo I took myself! (Apparently my camera has a time-delay setting.)

I'm holding Michael here, while he's actually awake, which is a rare but lovely event.


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Here's another week of photos.

Day 113:


To start with, a photo of photos!

These are by babyslime, who is a professional photographer. I bought these to help her business - thus getting the nice feeling of doing something helpful, and the nice feeling of having pretty things, both at the same time...

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Rather unsurprisingly, with the events of this weekend I haven't had much time to post these...

Day 99:


Still at the camp (just like photo #98). This one was taken from the stairs over the dining room, looking down.

I wish I'd taken the time to get a better shot, but I was in a hurry.

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