Shopping

Reading Harry Potter

by Cellobella on Sunday, July 22, 2007

A very exciting day yesterday as we buy the latest Harry Potter book. The deal is Junior Poshi can read it first, but then I get to read it before she re-reads it. She finished the book at 2.30am last night. Bless.

Free Sample Saturday

by Cellobella on Tuesday, May 22, 2007

One of my favourite food shops in Perth is The Boatshed in Cottesloe. It is offensively expensive but it makes you feel good just looking at all the lovely food and they ALWAYS open up a new aisle if there is more than one person waiting. I’m not that keen on the butchers and bakery [...]

Beer nuts

by Cellobella on Saturday, May 5, 2007

There is a world of difference between Farmland Beer Nuts and Nobby’s Beer Nuts. I forgot again. Meh.

Conspicuous Consumption

by Cellobella on Sunday, March 18, 2007

In the past I’ve always maintained that a mobile phone for me is about making and receiving calls. Any other function – games, browsing whatever – I didn’t need. And I’m not phone proud. Witness the munted beast which is currently my personal communication device. However… It’s only a month away. The n95.  Will. Be. [...]

Labile and Otiose

by Cellobella on Tuesday, February 1, 2005

I am reading Salley Vickers’s novel Mr Golightly’s Holiday and finding a few obscure English words which I admit to not being familiar with. In fact my Concise Oxford is not familiar with them either and I had to resort to both volumes of my Shorter Oxford (which is longer) to get the appropriate definitions. [...]