Well I survived my first week back in full-time employment. Things that have changed since I left The West in 2007. *The side gate I used to use as a shortcut to the foyer is now locked. Padlocked and covered in cobwebs, in fact. I felt pretty daft marching around to use it, then marching [...]
Archive for May, 2010
Where did that week go?
Posted in Perth & WA, Random musings, Television, tagged cafe, Food, hand sanitiser, journalist, Media, newspaper, reporter, round, The West, tv on May 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Shopping Update
Posted in Food, Perth & WA, Random musings, Uncategorized, tagged Coles, customer service, delivery, groceries, online shopping, Perth, Woolworths on May 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As promised, here’s an update on how my first online shopping experience went with Woolworths. Unfortunately, not well. Looking back at my order, it looks like I ordered about 52 items. Of those, one was out of stock and I got an email alert. No biggie. But there were about 10 other things that went [...]
Online shopping
Posted in Family, Food, Perth & WA, Society, tagged Aussie Farmers Direct, Coles, delivery, fruit, groceries, IGA, local, online shopping, Perth, shopping, vegetables, Woolworths on May 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Many years ago, after the birth of my first child, I used an online grocery shopping service in Perth called Electrolley. The food was fresh but it didn’t do many deliveries to my suburb. It no longer operates and I always presumed it had been too ahead of its time. A year or so back [...]
Bookworm
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anita Heiss, Book Depository, books, Candance Bushnell, Cloudstreet, Dymocks, Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert, library, Manhattan Dreaming, Sex and the City, The Carrie Diaries, The Sisters Antipodes, Tim Winton on May 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m foolishly trying to read four books at once. Eat Pray Love was one of our book club books that I and apparently half the club struggled to finish. With the film version starring Julia Roberts soon to hit our screens, lots of people are having a second stab at reading it and two people [...]




