Being an incomplete list of the paper cuts and small indignities the bakers have suffered on the 2016 season of the Great British Bake Off, as documented by Stephanie.
Month: October 2016
stuck in a linkulation
Hey, hey, hey, guess what’s out today! ONLY TKAY MAIDZA’S DEBUT ALBUM!
Tkay Maidza on bringing a new sound to Australian hip-hop: I didn’t really want to fit in
Swimming pool review: North Melbourne Recreation Centre
This is a new feature that we’ll be running over summer, assuming that we actually get a summer, seeing as how Melbourne’s Climate Change Dystopia currently allows us one warm, sunny day per week.
(Seriously, it’s late October, and I’m still using my electric blanket. Come on, Melbourne, what are you doing?)
Swimming pool reviews: not just an elaborate excuse to visit the Harold Holt Swim Centre.
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museums of the world: Peranakan Museum
The Peranakan Museum in Singapore is small but really lovely and interesting. Steph visited at 7:30 on a Friday night (half price Friday nights! That all museums would do such a thing).
Post is mostly about crockery and needlework, but does include some discussions of death (ooh ominous) and musings on religion.
Deep Water
I promised Stephanie that I’d watch SBS miniseries Deep Water over the weekend, and report back to No Award about (a) whether or not it’s worth watching, and (b) whether it contained any amazing/hilarious auscore.
Unfortunately, my plan hit the most Australian snag ever — my internet was too slow to stream the final two episodes via the SBS app. And I’m on the NBN. I mean, really.
(I was attempting to airplay to my AppleTV from my iPad — I might have had better luck hooking my laptop up to the TV, but I was like, come on, it’s 2016, we’re not animals here! Also, I have to rearrange half my living area to make a stable place for the laptop to sit, and it’s all a lot of effort when the series is just $9.99 on iTunes. Or $7.99 in standard definition, and let’s face it, it’s not like I have the bandwidth for HD or a TV that will do it justice.)
The fact that I’m going to pay money to finish the series probably answers question (a) — I was enjoying it, and found it a worthwhile way to spend a Saturday evening (but not enough to move my laptop). But Stephanie was probably expecting a proper post, and I guess that’s fair, so…
museums of the world: art science museum singapore
With great delight, it’s time to experience the Most SF Future Museum Steph has ever visited; in the Most (Aesthetically) SF Future City Steph has ever lived.
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Second Form at Malory Towers – Chapters 11 and 12
Previously at Malory Towers:
- Daphne has come to secretly like Mary-Lou
- Mary-Lou quite openly adores Daphne
- The two Mam’zelles are feuding
- Belinda has been entertaining her peers with satirical illustrations of the Mam’zelles’ French civil war
- Alicia suggested that Belinda “accidentally” leave her sketches where Jolly Mam’zelle Dupont can find them — but knows it will in fact be Bad Tempered Mam’zelle Rougier who’ll see the unflattering pictures
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you can’t mess with linkspam
This week’s linkspam is mostly about Stephanie, just FYI
It’s always #cephalopodweek somewhere
According to the internet, #cephalopodweek takes place either in June, or right now. Or maybe it’s both! Can we properly appreciate cephalopods in just a single week? DEFINITELY NOT.
I have a lot of feelings about cephalopods, to the point where I can no longer eat delicious calamari. So it is my great honour and privilege to share with the world my Top 5 Best Cephalopods Ever.
#makemulanright
Stephanie woke up to an email from Liz telling her to talk about “Mulan, in light of the leaked script with a white male lead,” and let me tell you, no fierce Asian lady wants to wake up that way.
[Liz: next time I’ll lead with a nice cat picture or something.]
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