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Friday Night Takeaway

15/5/2015

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 I do a bit more cooking these days than I used to, but sometimes it still feels like an awful lot of bother.

I often cook vegetarian meals at home, often because meat is just so much more difficult.  Meat is all slimy to cut up, it can be difficult to cook without making it too dry or too tough, but if you don’t cook it enough it’ll make you sick.  There’s cross contamination concerns, best before dates and all those times I wish I’d separated the pile of chicken breasts before bunging them all in the freezer. 

Recently however I thought I’d try a new recipe for chicken curry.  Now it was a bit late in the evening, I was a bit tired, but really how hard could it be? 
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A Rather Different Taxi Driver Tale

14/5/2015

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A while ago I wrote about some bad experiences with taxi drivers.  It recently occurred to me that I also had a good experience story to tell, so this piece is to redress the balance. 

One Friday afternoon, my boss suddenly decided I needed to go and visit a client in a suburb somewhere out west.  Upon leaving the client site, I spotted a taxi on the other side of the road.

I waved, I didn’t think he’d seen me, I wasn’t sure if his light was on, then suddenly in the blink of an eye, there he was.  I jumped in, gave my destination, sat back and looked around.

The passenger side dashboard and the centre console were covered in notices – messages in black ink printed on white paper, blue-tacked to every available surface. 
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5 Things I've Learnt About Alcohol

12/5/2015

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I recently had three months off from alcohol.  I expected it to be a struggle.  I expected to really, really miss drinking.  Funny thing is - I didn’t.

Here are a few things I learnt during those 3 months:

1) Damn I felt good without alcohol

Even one or two drinks makes me fuzzy in the head, both at the time of drinking and when I wake up the next morning.  I may not even feel it perceptibly, but it happens.  It took several weeks of not drinking for me to realise this.  I was amazed at how much energy I had and how I felt able to stay on top of things. 
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A Sunday Morning View

11/5/2015

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Standing on the balcony, I look left down the street.  The sun falls on my face; the sky is a perfect blue, all part of this city’s trademark look and feel.  Trees line most of the street, moving ever so slightly in an almost imperceptible breeze.  This balcony is a sun trap but at street level it will be an autumn morning, with a slight chill in the air.

There is a sound of some activity outside the pub opposite.  I instinctively turn to my right to look, but a tree covers my view of that part of the street.  It’s too early for the pub to be open; it must be passers by stopping to chat on the corner.  The sounds get a little louder and a family group walk into view, adults carrying coffees and children doing their best to ride scooters along the footpath. 
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