I am willing to bet that as you read this, a cell phone is within ten yards of where you are. My cell phone is five feet to my left on the island in my kitchen. My point is, the Internet is not the only option to find information on college programs that are available to …
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A few weeks ago I was sitting with my younger cousins about to take the first portion of their semester exams. The eldest of them was stressing the importance of the exam results, and the fact that they were unprepared, frantically – so much so that it was stressing out the others whom I was visiting …
If there was one major thing I have learned through my education, it is that the selection of a teacher is directly correlated to the success in the class. An example that I like to give is the time when I received a C+ on a paper I wrote when I was a junior in …
Recently I had to travel to Boston for a business conference and I had the opportunity to spend some time with an old college friend of mine. I told him about a new website I had put together with the help of programmers, writers, marketers and educators from all over the world called www.collegematchingservice.com. Of …
Everytime I look at most of my textbooks left over from college, I think one of two things: Man, that is going to make a future bookshelf in my mansion look pretty flippin sweet! And the other is, each of those books could have bought enough beer to last an entire weekend back in college. …
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I never really got Oreos. They were so huge in American pop culture that when they first arrived in Australia we all went a bit crazy, but to be honest they just didn’t deliver the super dreamy, creamy über chocolate hit I was expecting. Perhaps it was a case of massively overblown expectations but give …
I have had a longstanding love affair with the humble brownie, a seemingly never ending quest for that perfect fudgy, squidgy, dense, dark, not overly sweet conglomeration of chocolate, eggs and sugar. Certainly my criteria for what constitutes perfection are precise, having been refined over the years to an exacting list that even the most …
A good slice of a dense, chewy, flavourful rye can immediately conjure so many memories. A pastrami sandwich hastily slapped together on a hire car bonnet (using only a Swiss army knife) while driving through the Black Forest, a particularly indulgent dinner of eggs, caviar and champagne or a Croque Monsieur, German Style literally dripping …
This is a post following on from my last, but I thought I would do it in a different format, because why not?! I do truly believe that with certain products, you get what you pay for. However, as you will have gathered from the drugstore sister of this post, there are a lot of …
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In aid of Father’s Day I wanted to write a post which reflects the fondness that I have for my dad and to share some of the best things about him. He was and still is a brilliant dad and even though I probably shouldn’t say it, he was and always will be my favourite …
So, I recently made a little order on cult beauty and thought I would share with you all what I picked up… BECCA Backlight Priming Filter. I had run out of my beloved Laura Mercier primer, so decided to try something new. After reading lots of reviews, I decided to try this one. The concept of …
I’ve been thinking about layer cakes a lot recently, with billowing clouds of fresh cream sandwiched between layers of sponge positively dripping with caramel sauce a particular favourite. But then I came across multi-coloured layer cakes which presented a new, even better focus. I researched rainbow cakes, Neapolitan cakes, pink blush offerings that were all so very …
When I was growing up my mum had lots of funny sayings, some of which have stuck with me ever since. This is for a number of reasons, some of them I still believe to this day, some of them I don’t but they still remain with me because of the importance that she attributed to …
When I got married, we wanted a simple, country-style wedding just like our grandparents would have had. No fancy DJ, no $10,000 dress, just beautiful flowers, great food, lovely family and of course lots of cake (but keeping with the theme, my mum and I made it together). So when giving away favours, we didn’t …
We’d spent the morning making spicy, flavourful Merguez sausages by hand, an undertaking that was as satisfying as it was rewarding and one we decided that we should do far more often. As they lay on the bench all trussed in neat little bunches (not as hard as it seems thanks to a few U-Tube …
Baby Olivia was born today, 21 June 2011 at 4:30pm. She is a beautiful chestnut filly and we are all celebrating her safe arrival. However, this post isn’t really about her, it’s about my daughter and her reaction to said birth. To be fair, we missed the exciting (and goriest) part and by the time …
DD attends a small country school which is lovely. It has a really nice atmosphere and the standard of education is excellent, however it comes at a price. After school clubs that appeal to DD and that have enough room on them are hard to come by. This resulted in DD becoming quite distressed a …
Hi again! After the excitement of my birthday, I am currently sat drinking a cup of tea finally relaxing and getting to do a bit of writing. I was wondering on what to post, and upon going to Boots this morning, I had the idea to write a drugstore dedicated post, on my favourite brands …
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Cupcake pans at the ready – RSPCA Cupcake Day is just around the corner! On Monday 15 August 2011, cupcakes will be the sweet du jour as thousands of animal lovers get behind RSPCA’s annual fundraising event. NBIA is once again supporting this wonderful event, so if you want to be involved, contact us now …
All the family has arrived which brings with it a definite change in routine. Breakfast, lunch and indeed afternoon tea are all now sit down affairs, as much for the logistics of feeding the masses as for the opportunity to stop, catch up and mull over memories past. With that comes a need for vastly …