Category: food

Gold Coast Blues – Look both ways XI

Your jacket comes off, you lose your shoes and an extra shirt button mysteriously undoes itself. Yes, you’ve arrived at the Gold Coast in southern Queensland- in winter. The sun is warm in the clear cobalt sky and although the wind is up, the air is in the balmy mid twenties. Australia’s newest city is

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Open door

In response to The Daily Post’s photo challenge : “Door.” A door has three functions. To let you in, to keep you out or to keep you in. As a migrant I am acutely aware of doors. Doors have been opened to allow me to live in a different country, to work here and to share

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Bake off verdict

Cheesy scones or spiced pumpkin cake? We were at our friends for dinner and they, not the cat, were to be bake off judges. The cheesy chutney scones were consumed heated with melted butter accompanied by French Champagne- a beautiful match. We had the spiced pumpkin cake for dessert, by which time the judges had finished

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