This post was written in 2013. Had a few adventures since then. Started a 7 month contract at Curtin at the of 2013, mid 2014 started working part time externally for Curtin and spent four fabulous months travelling South and North Asia (see associated blog). I'm now the Associate Director for India and Sub Continent at Curtin Uni. So I have a great mix of work and leisure and a couple of trips to India every year. Of my big list of plans - the cooking adventures stuck ( in fact just made some killer Filipino home cured bacon ), sewing and refashioning like a woman possessed, cleaning up at the second hand shops ( just a tiny bit addictive) and I've completely turned into Willy, hunting the cut price food bargains (Thursday at Coles - I just have to get in before those pesky pensioners!).
Well just back from our fab two month holiday in Sri Lanka. I learnt some great new cooking skills, fell in love with Chilli and dragged home some Sri Lankan clay cooking pots.
I spent a LOT of time surfing the web and decided to improve some of my weaker cooking areas by trying and trying again 'til I master them. I've already seen a big improvement in my Parathas - going to master coconut roti next and I'm going to cook a brilliant biriyani if it's the last thing I do!
I also discovered refashioning. It's huge and everyone is doing it ...... Well it seems like everyone is doing it. The idea is to not buy new clothes but buy clothes from the opshop and remake, update , refashion them. I'm going to start with some of my 80's and 90's clothes I haven't been able to part with. I'm not sure about the opshop clothes - they are all about $10 these days. I might try the Swapmeet if I can drag my lazy arse out of bed on a Sunday morning.
