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You can buy them the book, or you can knit it yourself!

 

Wouldnt they love some hand knitted hobbit socks complete with foot-hair?

Or a Princess Leia...um... I hesitate to call this a hat. Hairpiece? Toupe?

 

I dont remember Catwoman EVER wearing this though...

 

sweet dreams. darling.

Hubby found this on Amazon.com (heaven knows what he was looking for!)

 

But with chapters like;

 

"Your upstairs neighbour kills people"

 

"I said not to touch that"

 

and

 

"No, it isn't just the wind",

 

it's sure to be a big hit with the littlies.

i knew it.

I knew it. All those Elvis conspiracy theorists/enthusiasts/sightings couldn't be wrong...

This 'Where's Wally?'-esque children's book immediately appealed to my warped sense of humour.

And I laughed harder when I saw this:

don't you hate that?

 

So relatable. Or is that just me...

tmi

Just thought I'd share 2yo CupKatie's favourite library book of the moment.

Priceless.

2012 eclectic reader challenge: march - literary fiction (take 2)

Incase you missed it, the genre for January was actually literary fiction, but I stuffed up and read a romance instead. Sothis month I read a literary fiction text to make up for it! (whoopsie)

Imagine what would happen if Mary Poppins arrived on the set of 'Deliverance'. 

That pretty much sums up this story, a satirical dig at the Victorian fiction genre,  about educated and civilized Flora, who goes to stay with her backward - inbred?! - cousins the Starkadders at their farm Cold Comfort Farm. I was constantly snorting and giggling at this ridiculous little story, where characters have names such as 'Caraway' and 'Mybug', the cows just randomly lose limbs without anyone's notice, and the family matriarch keeps the whole farm under her control by feigning madness from having seen 'something nasty in the woodshed' (no, you don't find out what!) :S

Think Edgar Allen Poe meets James Herriot. And then throw in Pollyanna. Couldn't help but giggle. I gave it 4/5 on Goodreads.

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more aussie than an outdated stereotype

I wish I'd known about this book on Australia Day! (And all those countless other days!) All that time I was sitting around thinking: "I wanna make a cake... I want it to be patriotic, but not obvious. I want it to say "Australia", but not in a modern, artistic, or indeed even obviously edible way...?" 

Behold!

Because I know y'all have always wanted to make an edible

...VICTA mower...

...Tuckerbox (Of course u cant eat the dog! Because that'd be weird.)...

...Akubra...

...Caravan! (I dont know how many times I've wanted to make a caravan cake...)...

...Meat pie with patriotic sauce! (Imagine! An edible meat pie!)...

...Billy (complete with gumleaf and soggy tea bag accessories)...

...Hills Hoist! (What? You can only eat the patch of lawn?! Disappointing!)...

...Weber-Que! (You call those sausages 'done'? That's not nearly enough charcoal for a true Aussie barbie! And where's the proverbial 'shrimp'?)...

But seriously, all joking aside, there are some cute Aussie animal cakes in this book - just look at this sweet little spearmint-leaf salt water croc!!! OMG he's ADORABLE!!! 

"C'mere! C'mere, you cute little...naaaw look at that: he's gnawing my leg off! Aww! Look he's doing a cheeky little death-roll and dragging me under the surface! Squee! Someone get the camera!!!"

perfect

All I want for christmas...

Kindred spirits Russell and Brian are selling their version of this blog in book-form over at Amazon... ;)

so simple - yet so poignant.

No wonder kids love this book... You get to say "Bum"!

... *snigger* ...

...

BA HAHAHA - 'It says BUM!!!!' XD

amen.

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god bless you, japan!

This one's been around a while, but just got given a copy of my very own and HAD to blog it!

Mostly they're ridiculous (*snort!*) but occasionally I think: "Hey...YEAH! That would be AWESOME!" :)

when i grow up

extreme frugality

No one's more respected in the world of home-cookery than the Country Women's Association. These are women who know how to be domestic, productive and frugal. The proof of which lies in their cookbook:

Why would I feature this as a 'wtf book'? Well, there's frugality, and there's...

And of course, there's the ever popular...

I don't even wanna know what's in the

Or the

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Eek O.o

But what's really bizarre is, if this was a book published in the depression.. in post-war ration days, it would make more sense. But no:

And therefore, I cant help but wonder how applicable some of these recipes will be to a modern audience...? Although with the cost of electricity and fuel going up and up... SO. Just in case: Here are some helpful hints: