Adventures with M

Part 3 of “doing my bit for the Australian economy during a pandemic”.  This purchase was just for me, but I have to admit whilst sitting and binge watching Netflix horror movies and the CNN updates on the Covid-19 Pandemic, I was feeling a little like the Dickens character Madame Defarge (as she sat knitting whilst the aristocracy were guillotined in the French Revolution).  Maybe buying wool for knitting wasn’t such a good idea. Continue reading →

Part 2 of my “spend a bucket of money in rural Australia” reviews.  I’m not even sure what I Googled in order for me to find these cheese care boxes, but what a find!  I’m not supposed to eat too much cheese, but the way I look at it is this … if not eating cheese adds another couple of months onto how long I will live, I’m prepared to forego those months so that I can have cheese with my red wine. Continue reading →

At the start of the COVID-19 Lockdown, the Australian Government sent me some money. I didn’t need it, but there’s a lot of people out there in Australia who do, so I thought I’d pass it on to rural Australia where people are doing it tough, first the bushfires, then flooding and now they’re in and out of lockdown.  I spent most of my period of lockdown on-line shopping looking around for products “made in Australia” so here’s the first of my reviews …  Continue reading →