Monthly Archives: December 2012

Duckmaloi. Yes, it’s a place.

A place very close to our hearts. It’s where we had Christmas. A beautiful, crazy, bustling, overflowing Aussie Christmas. With our very own Christmas elf. Cousins, big and small. And plenty of helping hands. Steve’s grandparents built the original Duckmaloi Guesthouse in 1940 and Steve’s brother Gerard still runs it today as self contained accommodation. [...]

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… in which she finds her Christmas groove in a graveyard at sunrise.

You know how I said last week I was struggling with the whole Christmas thing? Well I’ve had a change of heart. I still have no time for the ‘buy a shit load of rubbish because you think you have to’ scenario but I decided at 5.30am this morning wandering through the Holy Trinity Graveyard [...]

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Cooking with Pat: Part 1.
The Hogan Family Christmas Pudding.

My mother-in-law Pat is a legendary cook. Particularly when it comes to sweets. You ask her grandchildren about her sponge cakes and her lamingtons and her Charlotte au Chocolat and her Chocolate Rum Pie and her 13 Layer Mocha Cake. She is also a formidable individual. All 5 foot nothing of her. Terrifying I’m telling [...]

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