It never rains but it pours…

*sigh*
Neither TasteSpotting nor FoodGawker have accepted any of the articles I’ve posted within the last two weeks.  Either my dodgy internet link is being particularly malicious or my photography skilz are less leet than usual.  Guess I’ll have to try harder, but this is so damn frustrating!!
And in news just in, my novelty cheeseburger cake [...]

Tastespotting Part 2

Ladies and gennulmun, there is a new contender for the Tastespotting crown!  With only 75 posts (and counting) it has been live for only a little time. 
I give you (via SlashFood) ….  Food Gawker
They acknowledge that they are a homage to Tastespotting and list a small number of rules-of-usage on their About page.  Registration is [...]

Tastespotting is No More

Alas, the legal rats out in the metaverse have added another notch to their weasely belts – Tastespotting has been folded up and done away with.
Apparently there were legal issues with usage of photographs on the site – what that might be, I couldn’t say.  I was a contributor (caveat: I contributed only my own [...]

Update

Well, it’s official.  We have exchanged contracts and now have a house.  We’re currently negotiating when we can move in, but it’ll be sooner rather than later.
Which is just fine by me as the disaster in the backyard keeps getting worse.  So far we’ve had tree-loppers next door with an industrial shredder who have removed [...]

House Hunting

We’re making an offer on a house tomorrow – wish us luck!
If all goes well, we’ll be moving in as soon as the paperwork is sorted out which should hopefully be just before we are officially evicted from Buttercup Central (I’d boo the owner, but the karma plumbers have taken care of that nicely – [...]

Plumbing Woes

Well, at precisely 7:30 this morning, the plumbers arrived and managed to squeeze a large digging machine through the carport and into the backyard.  We are minus 1 fence, half a frangipane, several assorted plants, some pavers and pretty much any lawn we had growing out the back.  Instead of The Bog of Eternal Stench, [...]

One Thing After Another – Part 2

Our drains have decided not to. 
All the interior plumbing is currently refusing to work and we are reduced to using the backup dunny out in the laundry.  Well timed for the coming cooler weather.
I swear – it never rains but it pours.  Or gurgles alarmingly, in our case.
In the mean time, I continue to traipse [...]

One Thing After Another

If the pending house-buying wasn’t enough, there was a news story on Channel 10 on Saturday about poisonous moroccan tajines killing people with lead!!!!
As it turns out, ONE particular importer in South Australia only was selling the defective items (and possibly, it was a case of people buying decorative items and using them to cook it [...]

The Most Horrifying House in Granville

Despite having bugger-all time to do anything even vaguely blog related, I am compelled to snatch five minutes or so and tell you the blood-curdling tale of the Most Horrifying House in Granville.
I have seen some wrecks in the last couple of weeks, I can tell you.  There was the asbestos-riddled pile in Auburn that [...]

Swings and Roundabouts

Went to the big Gift Fair on Tuesday to spy out possible new suppliers of gadgetry for the shop.  My god – I keep forgetting how big that thing gets!  I went in at 11am and didn’t emerge until 12:30 which doesn’t sound like much of a big deal but please bear in mind that I [...]