Category: Living
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Breakfast served with the news
We get up in the mornings and make breakfast of yogurt and honey, kiwifruit and plum, strawberry and raspberry, a glass of milk and a banana, and then eat while watching the horrible, horrible things on the news channels.
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There may be smelly, don’t worry, it’s ok
We’ve been eating at home a lot lately, and when I say I cook up a storm, I’m mostly referring to the debris that has to be cleaned up in the kitchen afterward. Naomi and I have inherited quite a few appliances from our parents’ kitchens – toasters, juicers, steamers – some of which have…
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Keep away
You do not want to be standing close to the customer at the bookshop thumbing through the pages of this book. Or more accurately, in the case of our city’s fine bookshops, the customer asking the cashier to kindly unwrap the shrinkwrap so that he/she can thumb through the pages of this book:
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Christmas is very nigh
It’s been quite a few weeks since they’ve put up the Christmas decorations on Orchard Road, but it’s only just hit me a couple of days ago when I was shopping at the supermarket. The headache-inducing Christmas songs were playing and supermarket staff were stocking shelves with things they hope people will pay a premium…
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Images of technical recession: “Thank God we sold before recession hit”