The Kitchen Playground

Ah the bliss that is a child free existence. It’s quiet. It’s neat. It’s quiet. Its free of constant demands. Did I mention that it’s quiet?
Friday, the Bread Winner and I shipped the Ankle Biters off to the Grandparents and we bolted to the airport for a weekend in Sydney. Things didn’t start incredibly smoothly […]

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Indoor play centres suck. The food is ridden with chemical preservatives and colours, the children are feral, visibility bad and there is always some unsupervised brat beating up on at least one of my children. Just to top it all off, you’re lucky to escape under $30. So it’s a long time since I’ve been […]

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Saturday night was my 20 year high school reunion. Great fun to get out and see how people have turned out and what they’ve done with themselves over the last twenty years. The reunion was held at Canvas Restaurant in Hawthorn.
According to the invitation it was to be a standing dinner and it was held […]

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Some girlfriends and I ventured out to Barr’d wine and tapas bar in East Ivanhoe last night. It’s always exciting to get out without the Ankle Biters. It was probably about quarter to eight when we arrived. Tables and seating are out the front for fine weather and nicotine addicts. We were greeted by the […]

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Obviously, one of the best breakfasts a mother of young Ankle Biters can have is one eaten in the absence of Ankle Biters. So on Sunday, in celebration of my lovely SIL Karen’s birthday, 8 such mothers descended on Apte for a leisurely breakfast.
Not the first time I have breakfasted there and I have mentioned […]

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There is a building that has had three incarnations since I became aware of it. Lasted night, with much trepidation, I experienced the third.
The building is 735 Heidelberg Road, Alphington. When I was first told about it, it was called TJ’s. It was described to me as a restaurant with a kids playroom that had […]

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The Lil Miss and I had an adventure. It was quaint. It was quirky. It was scrumptious. We will be doing it again. Many times I suspect in years to come.
We had afternoon tea at Dolls at the Mount. Sadly it has no web presence I can link you to but I can tell you […]

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Seriously, I just went weak at the knees. I can’t blame three weeks of sustained post-surgery bleeding. I can’t even blame the visually perfect male creation that put a crick in my neck as I walked past him earlier today.
The culprit was Tarago triple cream brie. Get your hands on some. Salty creamy goodness that […]

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It really doesn’t take much to break the writing mojo does it? Since my recent computer meltdown, and consequent enforced break, I am struggling to get back to my happy writing place. So apologies for my slackness, I’m working on it. I’ll get there, please be patient with me.
Anyway, that aside, I went to a […]

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