The guerilla garden continues apace with one rude surprise. The bamboo has been chopped down and left aside to mulch as much material as possible before I call in the council to remove the woodier stalks. The rude shock is that beneath the thin ground cover of rotting bamboo leaf
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May 11, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 1 Comments
Guerilla Gardening: How to compost a whole cow
Apr 28, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 9 Comments
The most useless kitchen item that I own
Ed from over at Tomatom has started an interesting thread on the least useful kitchen items that one owns. I tend to veer away from any single-use item – I wrote about this in Cambodia as a rare victory over acquisitiveness. Buying kitchen gear does not make you a better
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Apr 13, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 1 Comments
Travel Writing 101: Date the embassy “chick”
Amazon.com Widgets Welcome to hell, Lonely Planet. “They didn’t pay me enough to go (to) Columbia (sic),” “I wrote the book in San Francisco. I got the information from a chick I was dating – an intern in the Colombian Consulate. “They don’t pay enough for what they expect the
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Apr 05, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 2 Comments
F-Shed at Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne
Mar 29, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 10 Comments
The outing of Camy Shanghai Dumpling House’s secret
When salmonella went feral a few years ago at a favorite Turkish restaurant, hospitalising a wardful of unlucky diners, I felt the urge to eat there out of solidarity with the owners but sadly, the health inspectors had put paid to my plans. The joy of returning to a previous
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Mar 17, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 4 Comments
Melbourne street life: Corner of Bourke and Elizabeth St
Mar 03, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 4 Comments
I can’t believe it’s not Chợ Bến Thành ™
There is nothing like a high degree of architectural verisimilitude to brighten up my day, be it a Big Banana, Giant Merino or in this case, a fake Ben Thanh Market building in the middle of Melbourne. This model of Saigon’s Ben Thanh Market is so accurate that the clocks
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Feb 27, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 16 Comments
Sausage Fancier
Once you’ve seen how sausages are made, you’ll want to eat nothing but sausages. This was my first impression of home sausage making; my second was that making sausages is possibly my true calling and that my university loan debts could have been better spent on a meat mincer and
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