I'm all out
It’s been one of those weeks… well it started ok
I was happily working. I beavered away
When from out of the bowels of a big kitchen toy
Began to emerge a most terrible noise
The trouble with inertia
Inertia is the resistance of any object to a change in its state of motion. Moving objects have a tendency to continue to move in a straight line with constant velocity. Stationary objects will likewise have that same tendency, to maintain their velocity and direction...
When one is not enough...
There are times in life when one is more than enough. Consider, just as a random hypothetical, the family driving holiday. All was going swimmingly until there was an extreme event in the back seat.
Self-improvement road trip
The great Aussie road trip, perhaps dependant entirely on the patience of your co-passengers, can be a somewhat arduous task. Try as you will, there may not always be magnificent vistas or points of interest around every bend...
The making of an argument
A great deal of social change has been instigated by a convincing argument. Consider, for example, what Abraham Lincoln began when he argued against slavery...
Right down the front...
There are tasks in life that should, once mastered, be completed without complication. Having a drink is one of them...
Performance appraisal
Recently the chief recipe tester was required to travel for work. My role for the week was to provide expert, and solo, care for the (at times seemingly innumerable) junior recipe testers...
We're in the news!
We're thrilled to have our first news feature - in the Hills Shire Times Monday 2 June 2015. Story by Angela Ranke, and photography by Alex Mayes.
It takes a village...
It takes a village, so the saying goes. But I do occasionally wonder whether there is a limit on how many village members you are allowed to recruit in one hit. It started innocently enough. I did what I do on many afternoons: I grabbed the youngest recipe tester and ran out the door...
The fishbowl effect
This week I had the very good fortune of visiting a swanky office block. It was one of those groovy places with a multiple storey height foyer. From my position just inside the front door I could gaze up through the many walkways on each level, all of them lined with glass. I adjusted my posture and walked confidently to the (glass) lift...