bluuuuue moooooon
tomorrow night we will be seeing that rare thing: a blue moon.it refers to a full moon happening twice in a calender month.this one by the way, is a blue moon in Sagittarius. to celebrate, i am going to make a blue moon soap…palest blue swirls with silvery mica and purple lavender buds….and an unexpected [...]
rough justice
i suppose the whole world knows about the tainted petfood dramas of recent months.the problem was sourced to ingredients imported from china. yesterday, the head of china’s food and drug agency was sentenced to death, for corruption. more here:http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,2090884,00.html
no soap today
i have cricked my neck horribly and it still hurts after 24 hours, despite massage and moxibustion.i cannot look around enough to feel safe on a motorbike, so i guess i am not making soap OR motorcycling today. i’ve been re-reading larry winget’s book : “it’s called WORK for a reason”.i like his approach very [...]
rough justice
i suppose the whole world knows about the tainted petfood dramas of recent months.the problem was sourced to ingredients imported from china. yesterday, the head of china’s food and drug agency was sentenced to death, for corruption. more here:http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,2090884,00.html
no soap today
i have cricked my neck horribly and it still hurts after 24 hours, despite massage and moxibustion.i cannot look around enough to feel safe on a motorbike, so i guess i am not making soap OR motorcycling today. i’ve been re-reading larry winget’s book : “it’s called WORK for a reason”.i like his approach very [...]
rainy days and soap and stuff
in spite of quite wet weather this late in the year, we had two excellent markets in a row.another stall holder (she sells the cutest hand-painted umbrellas and gumboots! big happy flowers and rainbows), heading south for tomorrow’s mission beach market was kind enough to call me and let me know it was POURING wet [...]
riding, riding, riding….
my brother and i have been spending all of our time cruising around on the motorbikes.really, we are having FAR TOO MUCH FUN. today, we set off at 9.30am and ripped off down the palmerston highway, to south johnston and innisfail.the palmerston highway is an absolute pleasure-ride….big sweeping curves of highway, with a 10% incline [...]
boots
one of the things you really cannot buy in the tropics are leather boots.i mean, they have them around, but really, there is no selection to speak of.they just aren’t things that tropics-dwellers generally require in their wardrobes. in my mature years, i feel the need to wear leather boots whilst riding the motorbike…slip-on shoes, [...]
pukeko, motorcyclist cat
we had some soap to cut tonight.a few minutes after we began, we noticed pukeko, sitting on my motorbike, obviously looking around for the keys! the soap was a custom order for a resort island, south of here.i created a soap that went with their tropical marine theme: blue and white, with green foam tops, [...]
pukeko, motorcyclist cat
we had some soap to cut tonight.a few minutes after we began, we noticed pukeko, sitting on my motorbike, obviously looking around for the keys! the soap was a custom order for a resort island, south of here.i created a soap that went with their tropical marine theme: blue and white, with green foam tops, [...]
exhilarated. exhausted.
yesterday we made 1100 bars of soap, with a 7am start.then we cut it at 10.30pm that night. all the soap was still warm and quite soft, apart from a batch we had made and forgotten about two days prior, separate to the day’s production. (it was a demo batch for some visitors and a [...]
i’d give my eye teeth….
….for 25 X 5 litre HDPE cubes, with bungs and taps. they’d be perfect for storing my essential oil blends.tidy to store….easy to label….stackable…..easy to clean….easy to dispense a batch-weight.no more hefting 5 kilo aluminiunm flasks around! no more aluminium disintegration to deal with! no more drip marks! HOWEVER, in this imperfect world, the smallest [...]
i really need this
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/8193/ imagine that connected to a smartphone……NOW we are talking SPACE AGE!!! i am in love with thinkgeek and really need many many items from there.then i remind myself, o it’s all lumps of plastic,ultimately.shouldn’t the goal be less plastic, not more plastic. but isn’t it fun and cool stuff?
pre-mother’s day
much excitement in the back blocks last night! we had a late lunch and no dinner…..a fire roaring in the potbelly stove, cups of tea and were getting settled in to watch LOST. (pathetic, but we are addicted). at 7.50pm, i was ironing some of the mountain of linen that reaches to the ceiling and [...]
get rid of telemarketers!
FINALLY this is available in australia:https://www.donotcall.gov.au/ you can only register online at this time.it lasts for 3 years! pass it on.
thought for the day
i was in the new wine supermarket in cairns recently…busily stocking up on a few dozen of richmond grove “weathervane” cab sav merlot (unexpectedly smooth and delicious and very reasonably priced)….when i spotted some beers from the favourite brewery of my far-flung youth: mac’s brewery in new zealand.first time i have seen them in australia [...]
potato soup
potato soup is what i was PLANNING for dinner.it’s been chilly, albeit sunny, and a soaper posted a great-looking recipe for potato soup.of course, it’s a public holiday here today….labour day….viva le worker!….and absolutely everyone except for us had the day off.which means most of the shops were closed.not having bacon…or potatoes…on hand, really slowed [...]
water
we watched this film tonight: water.just wonderful!firstly….it has a deeply poignant and tragic story line.secondly….the music is INCREDIBLE and i need the soundtrack. i won’t spoil it for anyone…but it is a story about a group of widows living in an ashram in india in 1938.the scenery and settings are simply lush and beautiful and [...]
reader comments and bike ramblings
blogging is a new exercise for me.i’m never sure if i am writing for an audience or not.primarily, i guess i’m writing for myself.a blog of this nature is a very personal and self-indulgent, fun thing to do.i sucked at keeping a journal…..possibly because my exhibitionist nature knew that nobody would be reading the journal [...]
new music
sadly, pandora radio www.pandora.com does not have the licensing for global listeners.at this stage it is US-only….but they are working on it.they found me out by my IP address and stripped my pandora-ness from me. in desperation, i went searching the net, figuring if there was one place online where i could listen to new [...]
soapcycle
here it is! my wonderful husband has moved a pallet of olive oil aside, so i can drive in and out of one end of our workshop more easily.we have to build another shed, really. i took the bike for a spin today….just did a big loop through malanda, the curtain figtree, yungaburra, past the [...]
biker chick
i got the bike.we are celebrating right now! pix and full report coming: stand by…….
i wanna motorbike
i have had motorbikes before.a motorbike was my sole transportation for nine long years.open licence: check!attitude: check!need for speed: check! ok, not so much the need for speed.i mean, i am forty now and i don’t need to be hunched over a fuel tank, looking like a madwoman.i’ve always preferred cruisers. my brother just bought [...]
