If I decide to walk home from work, it is about 4 miles (about 6.5 kms) and takes me about 1 hour 20 mins. My pace slows considerably over the Brooklyn Bridge due to the amount of slow walking tourists walking in packs. I tried walking home every night during Lent but various things got…
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Roma, città aperta #blogjune
Have you seen Roma, città aperta (Rome, Open City)? If not, you should! A really amazing film. (I can’t post anything else about it… but if you are up for a 1945 wartime drama…watch it!)
Bill’s Crumpets #blogjune
By now you all know how much home baking we do – as much as possible in our little apartment kitchen! We haven’t bought store bread since February and with that, a few weeks ago Bill set about to make our own homemade crumpets! Crumpets are hard to come by here. When we lived in…
Cruising with the Space Shuttle Enterprise #blogjune
We see some amazing things from the Library. Back in February we were working away when we heard a horn play New York, New York. We ran to the windows and could see a beautiful cruise ship sailing up the Hudson. It was the inaugural Disney Cruise arriving in the city with much fanfare. They…
Ahh The Badloves… #blogjune
I have been thinking about this for a while. What could really be one of the most underrated Australian albums ever? Today I realized there was one album that deserves this accolade. Obviously, there are more contenders but, for today, it is The Badloves debut album Get On Board. Every song on this album is…
Nail catch up #blogjune
I haven’t done a nail update for a while so here goes! My nails were a mess when we got back from Europe so I wanted them short and plain. Here they are with a basic iridescent color. I love this one – on one angle it looks pink, the other a pearly green. After…
Boo to the BBC #blogjune
The Queen’s Jubilee has been something I have been excited about for months. For the river pageant, I made sure our calendar was absolutely clear. Because of the time difference, we could get up and enjoy the pageant on Sunday morning. So naturally, I was so excited I was up at about 6am. I had…
2012 Lebanese Food Festival #blogjune
Yesterday we went along to the Lebanese Food Festival for the restoration of Our Lady of Lebanon Cathedral – for the third year in the row! Thankfully, it wasn’t nearly as hot and humid as the other years so straight after Mass we headed down to Remsen Street to join in the festivities. The cathedral…
Memorial Day Weekend 2012 #blogjune
This Memorial Day weekend was just fabulous. Humid, but fabulous! The photo above is our Brooklyn Borough Hall all decorated for the day! The weekend got off to a great start on Saturday morning by Collingwood winning against Adelaide. This is how we listened to the end of the game – We picked up our…
#blogjune – Day 30 – And they lived…
Well we made it! A blog a day for a whole month and for some reason this was easier than last year… but I think I can attribute that to blogging more regularly in general this year. It has been a blast – I haven’t commented on other blogs as much as I would like…