Posts by Anne M
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There was also a pretty decent Italian place (lunch only I think) up near the uni and a Singaporean place near the railway station where the owner would come and boss you about your order ("No, you can't have two noodle dishes. Have nasi goreng instead of sar ho fan"). And a yum char place in Notting Hill where you had to look before you committed yourself to anything - mmmm chickens feet. Oh we ate our way round the world in Melbourne. But getting on the train and going into Richmond and strolling down Victoria St. was the best. SIGH.
Odd isn't it how you remember the good bits and forget the bad, or at least memory glosses over them.
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Felix!! That was brilliant, especially, the final touch of German. You cunning, cunning man.
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way the heck out in clayton (now there's a hell-hole)
Guess where we spent five years?
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O did I mention who was funding the "scientists"? Dig a bit deeper and you will find out!
The work was funded by the US government. The lead author works for the US government. One of the four authors gets money from a pile of pharmaceutical companies. He is not the lead author, or the corresponding author.
the so-called scientists behind the gynomastica / lavender link used a sample of three boys who came to their attention through various other studies.
They did some cell culture studies as well. Does that not count either? They say "Our in vitro studies confirm that lavender oil and tea tree oil possess weak estrogenic and antiandrogenic activities that may contribute to an imbalance in estrogen and androgen pathway signaling."
I expect there was a lot of unhappiness when meat hygiene regulations came into place requiring inspection of facilities and a shirt-load of paperwork. Small abattoir owners probably went out of business, and meat prices probably went up. Anyone want to return to the days before meat inspectors checked your steak for tapeworm?
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No, no, Melbourne is a great place, especially if you live in the inner suburbs (like Che, and unlike us). You can eat FABULOUS food, really cheap thanks to successive waves of immigration. And once my husband shelved his uni plans for a year and found a job assembling phone books for Rupert Murdoch and we could afford that fridge we were happy.
We'd probably have forgotten to come back if the (recently privitised) company we were both working for (post uni) hadn't gone down the gurgler.
Just looking at the Arts Review of the Melbourne paper http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/arts/reviews/ makes me want to weep.
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Melbourne. The joy of half-as-expensive Mars bar was more than overcome by the shock of the twice-as-expensive rent, and the realisation that what had looked like a very cosy scholarship was actually subsistance-level. This was compounded by the fact that, despite having received half a bushel of carefully filled in forms, the uni couldn't manage to pay me for six weeks. I was buying 50 cents worth of mince and making my own bread buns. We spent three months in an Australian summer without a refrigerator. You didn't want to drink white coffee at our place ....
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Woohoo, you're alive!
On the book front, BusyBoy may enjoy the "William" stories by Richmal Crompton. Though not only will you have to skip over the stuff that jars with modern sensitivities, but you may not want to encourage William as a role-model. Last night's chapter was "William Sells the Twins" ...
Iceland was were the "Top Gear" chaps drove an off-roader across a lake. Not a frozen lake, a wet one. If you could try that I'm sure we'd all appreciate the YouTube link.
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So if you give the wee bairn a simple to spell name they will love you for it when they start school.
And so will their teachers.
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Scottish naming traditions dictate that the first girl is named after the mother's mother and the first boy after the father's father. It worked nicely for our two, but thank heavens my parents didn't do it to me, high school would have been even worse as "Sadie"...
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? We've had 'em here too for 150 + years. Again I say, it's a heckuva long road.