Posts Tagged ‘Australia’

May 2, 2008

Recipe: Anzac Biscuits

These biscuits were originally made to send to the ANZACs (The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) serving in Gallipoli during World war I. ANZAC day is commemorated in Australia each year on April 25th.
Ingredients

85g porridge oats
85g desiccated coconut
100g plain flour
100g caster sugar
100g butter , plus extra butter for greasing
1 tbsp golden syrup
1 tsp bicarbonate [...]

March 26, 2008

A Life For Sale

An ex-pat Brit living in Australia is to auction his life on eBay following the break up of his marriage. Everything including his house, lifestyle and even his job in Perth is to be up for bidding on the Auction site from June 22nd.

Ian Usher, 44 writes on a web site he has set up [...]

January 26, 2008

The God Of Comfort Food

I prayed to the God(s) of comfort food and my prayers were answered this morning as a small box of goodies from the land down under have arrived which contains the much missed Soya King Soya chips flavoured personally by angels with sour cream and chives. And lo I was very pleased and almost reduced [...]

January 1, 2008

HowRudd

Of course the question over Internet censorship proposals by the new Australian government of Kevin Rudd , a policy that would more have been expected of former incumbent John Howard raises similarities between when Tony Blair came to power in Britain after such a long period of conservative rule. It’s taken the Australian Labor [...]

December 31, 2007

Australia To Filter Internet

Speaking of Australia I was interested to hear that despite a change of leadership down under the Labor government of Kevin Rudd (’alright Kev?’ ;) still intends to filter the Internet for all Australians which has seen statements around the internet such as this from Duncan Riley of technical blog Techncrunch:
“The Australian Government has announced [...]