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4 digital + 3 film = a photographic family

This morning our house entered the world of having a digital for all of us. Today, Matthew bought a Canon Ixus 40, it is so small and cute, I can see myself "stealing it" when I go out clubing some nights, will fit in the handbag way better 🙂

Our Camera List.

Helen – Canon Eos 350d, Canon  Eos 300, Quadcam

Mum – Olympus Mju zoom 170

Pabbi – Fuji Finepix s5500, Olympus Camedia c-350

Matthew – Canon Ixus 40

Plus 3 or 4 old bodies and lenses of pabbi’s that no longer work.

 Yeah we are a photography house for sure 🙂

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refined designed

Unless you are reading this by RSS, you will notice the new design. I like my pages to load quickly, to be light on the graphics and be clean and simple. Well I took a dive further into the theme design pool and after much wrangling, came up with this deisgn.  This new design makes it super easy for me to change the header image, and super quick to load 🙂

Happy, Clean, Simple. 

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done.

2 essays down, 1 to go!

Just about to go hand in my essay 🙂  – Why are the Chinese so dominant in Business in Southeast Asia: A historical view of the factors that have shaped the Business Scene.  Some 2550ish words. Glad that one is over.

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State of Origin 1

matthew

Matthew went to the first State of Origin game tonight, played in QLD and of course QLD won 🙂 24-20. Not an Origin fan myself, as I am not a fan of League myself, but I do like seeing everyone dressing up and the rivalry between NSW and QLD fans.
Minute by Minute at Fox Sports, In fact I am sitting here in a Wallbies jersey 🙂

Explored fill flash today, both on the walk home in the park, in this photo here of Matthew before he went off to the game. Really like it, going to have to play some more with it for sure.

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for the engineers in my life.

Karl, Dina and co and the rest of you.

Mum was given this today.

An engineer was crossing a road one day when a frog called out to him and said, “If you kiss me, I’ll turn into a beautiful princess.”

He bent over, picked up the frog and put it in his pocket. The frog spoke up again and said, “If you kiss me and turn me back into a beautiful princess, I will stay with you for one week.”

The engineer took the frog out of his pocket, smiled at it and returned it to the pocket.

The frog then cried out, “If you kiss me and turn me back into a princess, I’ll stay with you and do ANYTHING you want.” Again the engineer took the frog out, smiled at it and put it back into his pocket.

Finally, the frog asked, “What is the matter? I’ve told you I’m a beautiful princess, that I’ll stay with you for a week and do anything you want. Why won’t you kiss me?”

The engineer said, “Look I’m an engineer. I don’t have time for a girlfriend, but a talking frog, now that’s cool.”

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cooking.

In the last 8 nights I have eaten at home for 6 of them and was in charge of preparing them for 4 nights. I am pretty impressed with myself but not with the person who is not pulling his weight around the here.

Matthew helped me out tonight and we created a variation on Helen Staple – Stir Fry Veg/fruit with cous cous. 

Simply I love Cous Cous, it is so utterly quick and simple to prepare – x parts cous cous to a little bit less than x parts boiling water, cover and allow to stand till water is absorbed. So, so easy.

The variation tonight was.

Carrots, Onion, Celery, Shallots, Mushroom, Capsicum, Lamb (taken off Forequarter chops) with some Garam Masala and Honey. Some people like to gradually add the veg, but I am firm believer in adding everything except Mushrooms at the same time.

Previous Variations have included Turkey Chops with Tomato added and Moroccan seasoning. Another was Tuna, Cous Cous, tinned tomato, fresh beetroot and assorted veg.

Essentially it is what ever veg/fruit and meat is in the house with what ever seasoning takes my fancy in the cupboard, served of course with Mesclun Leaves dressed with Newman’s Own Caeser Dressing (because salad dressing is not meant to be creamy – another rule of the Palsson kitchen). Enjoy.

cous cous lamb