A Giggle for Your Trouble

The bathroom in question - Photo Theresa Sjoquist

  A giggle for your trouble – amusing excerpt from a presentation to Toastmasters@Lunchtime on the value of attention to detail. – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svw0JDBbzLw

Piquant Salad Dressing

Piquant Salad Dressing - Photo Theresa Sjoquist

Piquant Salad Dressing is a sugarless, lemon and honey-based dressing made especially for mixed greens or a pickling liquid for beets. Piquant Salad Dressing is my old favorite fall-back dressing. I never make it the same way twice or accurately measure the ingredients . However, I recently did measured the ingredients so I could share […]

Fried Rice Special – Asian Style

Plated fried rice special - Photo Theresa Sjoquist

Fried Rice Special – Asian style – delicious, nutritious, cheap, easy to prepare fried rice which is a complete meal with veges and meat. Fried Rice Special – Asian style is a light-ish meal which provides a good balance of meat and veggies – though this version is light on meat. It’s colourful and interesting […]

Life is Art

Shari Pickering - Photo Richard Cranenburgh

This is a version of an article published in the Whangarei Leader of 3 July 2012. The photo was taken by Richard Cranenburgh, artist and designer. Shari Pickering is full of bubbles when it comes to people who have managed to make life work for themselves.  She and her partner, Richard Cranenburgh, quietly opened their […]

Franco Paisio, Australian-Based Italian Abstract Painter and Poet

Abstract by Franco Paisio - 600 x 450

A brief profile of Italian painter, Franco Paisio, who makes his home in Sydney, Australia. Paisio is also a poet and has published four poetry books. Australian-based Italian painter and poet, Franco Paisio is a Scorpio. Both his painterly eye, and the one which observes his thoughts, have the laser-like perception often accorded a November-born. […]