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3 Olives, Newtown
A quick early dinner before our film tonight, the four of us headed into Newtown for our 5:30 pm booking at 3 Olives. We weren’t starving this late afternoon because we just binged on energy dense party food at an event beforehand. Okay fine, I was the only person who binged; the friends ate like…
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Schumann 1 & 2 at the Sydney Opera House
Valentine’s Day! Sydney Symphony Orchestra! Sydney Opera House! Schumann! Mendelssohn! Dumplings! Or more coherently, Valentine’s Day Sydney Symphony Orchestra Opera House Schumann Mendelssohn dumplings! Oops. It’s a slightly rainy day that didn’t start out very smoothly, with one of my contact lenses deciding to rip and us having to make an extra trip back to…
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Opera Kitchen, Sydney Opera House
We only had half an hour before the performance at the Sydney Opera House and I still needed to pick up our tickets from the box office. We needed food now, right now! We headed straight for the Opera Kitchen at the lower concourse of the iconic concert hall. The Kitchen serves a variety of…
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Australia Day 2015
In true Aussie spirit on this rainy Australia Day, I woke up super fatigued but still crawled out of the bed and eventually the house, and ended up partially helping a lady who spoke no English other than the words “Rockdale”, “Arncliffe” and “thank you” to get to her desired destination, Arncliffe, and later, rewarded…
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Seen in an English Forum
Thanks, Anonymous. Almost snorted while trying to suppress a laugh at work.
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Watergrill, Cronulla RSL
Richard’s family and I were going to have dinner at another restaurant in the area tonight but didn’t realise it closes on Tuesdays (and Mondays, too, as I later checked). We popped in to Watergrill inside Cronulla RSL nearby instead, and because the weather allowed, we chose to sit outside with a water view that…
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Homegrown Tomato Infestation Rescue
When the boyfriend sends you an MMS like this one about the
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