Before Christmas Tala and I were looking into buying a house. The most we could afford to borrow was $420,000. The houses in the area where we are renting now go for ~$560,000 – $650,000, so in order to buy we had to look even further out from the city. It already takes me around [...]

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I just got back from Christmas Holidays last Friday (6th Jan, 2012). I was down in Tassie for these holidays and was helping my mum do some work around her 20ac property ready to sell it. I so can’t wait to have a property of my own, there is so much that I would like [...]

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I am writing a couple of grants at the moment. For those of you who are not familiar with how scientific research works, scientists need to apply for funding for their experiments and they do this by applying for grants from various funding agencies. The biggest in Australia for medical research is the National Health [...]

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It was great weather for a day at the beach last weekend (Sat 19th Nov, 2011). I heard that there was going to be a game of nude beach cricket between the Coast and Valley Naturists (CAVN) and Bare Tracks up at Samurai Beach in Port Stephens on the Saturday so thought I would make [...]

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When I was in Hawaii recently I bought an example of every chocolate covere macadamia that was on sale so I could try them all and compare them with each other. One of the brands was Mauna Loa. The milk chocolate covered macadamias they had came in a sealed tin. These chocolate covered macadamias had [...]

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When on a trip to Hawaii earlier this year I wanted to make sure I brought home a good supply of Hawaiian Host Macadamia Nut chocolates as I have received them as a present in the past and loved them.  When we got there though I found that there was a massive number of different [...]

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I was doing the weekly gorcery shop last night and in the fruit and vegie section of my local coles (Stanhope Gardens in Sydney) sitting beside the ordinary orange carrots which were $1.98/kg there were these deep purple/black root vegetables that looked like carrots.  Upon closer inspection they were called “Purple Carrots” and looked identical [...]

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My partner Tala and I make it a point of trying the Seafood Chowder of any place that sells it in any country that we travel to. This post will be where we post what we think are the best Seafood Chowders in the world listed in order of deliciousness. 1) Tony’s – 27 Wellesley [...]

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I am so angry!! Nothing is more aggravating that when you can’t find something. On this occasion, though I may add to the list later, I have been looking for two things: 1) Supplier of 400mL PET soft drink bottles in Sydney 2) Supplier of post mix coke syrup in sydney Visy, is supposedly one [...]

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If you can learn one new thing every day pretty soon you will have a good broad base of knowledge on which to draw in order to help you through any problems that you might come across in life. I always tell my research students that science is all about solving problems, but more generally [...]

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