Posts from the ‘Lifestyle’ Category
Mmmmm lemon. Mmmmmm meringue. Mmmmmm Pie. I used to have an AMAZING recipe for Lemon Meringue Pie – the best combination of puff white happiness, lemoney sugariness and pie-ey goodness in the known universe, with homemade pastry and all, but I have misplaced it. This recipe isn’t quite what I remember, but I have made [...]
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A recipe from my mum – I think Mrs. Lovett would love the knobbly bits. Ingredients (of doom) 250 g very soft butter (not melted) ¾ c caster sugar grated rind 1 orange / lemon 1 egg 1 tsp vanilla essence 2 ½ c flour 2 ½ tsp baking powder either a 500 g can [...]
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You monarchless countries may not be aware that this weekend, we all got a day off. The Queen of England doesn’t really have much to do with us, all the way over here with our sheep and hobbits. Most of the time, we forget she exists. But on Queen’s Birthday weekend most New Zealanders celebrate [...]
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On Saturday, CDH celebrated his old man day. He does volunteer work for Mainline steam – a company in Auckland who restores and runs steam trains on the main NZ lines. They’d organised a ride from Auckland to Whangarei (up north) and back. KiwiRail has been doing lots of work and spending lots of money [...]
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Egypt: Land of Pharoahs, beetles and pointy monuments. Ever since I first read R. L. Stine’s Goosebumps book “Curse of the Mummy” at about age 7, I have dreamed of being an archaeologist and exploring pyramids and tombs. I’ve been lucky to do the archaeology part, and have even explored a few tombs in my [...]
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Metal Movies: Black Death Review
Metal History: Black Death
Barons of Tang and Benka Boradovsky Bordello Band at the Kings Arms
Steff Metal at the Veldensteiner Festival!
Linking Horn: Holy Shit guys, it’s nearly APRIL
