No, it isn’t a four by two in the burbs on a quarter acre block.
For 20-30somethings in Perth it’s an after-work home-handyman renovation-in-progress on a 3 by 1 with a timber deck extension, lots of shiny stainless steel (or is it brushed this season?), a couple of feature walls and a hundred sparkly downlights burning [...]

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If you have reached this page because you typed ‘I don’t want to live anymore’ into your search engine, please know that there are people that care about you. Things might seem awful now but there are people who can help you to pull yourself back up. You can get help and you [...]

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There’s nothing more empowering than having your apron strings untied from the sink.
Unless you get untied from the sink so that you can trot off in a wool suit to your box on the terrace for every daylight hour and more besides, after which you will glamorously engage in up-to-the-minute witty banter with 40 of [...]

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It was horribly cold tonight. I had no intention of going out shopping so I ransacked the fridge and pantry instead. I have no idea how this happens when I dutifully write a meal plan and shopping list every week, but I digress. So we had risotto cakes all wrapped up [...]

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Before we go any further, spinach doesn’t come in boxes.  Green icy stuff in cardboard boxes is the stuff of childhood nightmares.  Please leave it there.
You need only the tiniest most minuscule skerrick of water to cook spinach.  Rinse spinach well and dry the leaves in a half-assed fashion.  The little bit of water clinging [...]

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The Plasma Generation may find this a bit hard to believe, but you can’t have it all.  Despite what mummy and daddy have been saying all these years, you can’t have everything you want “as long as you want it enough” unless you have about as much ambition as a soggy sock.
So for those of [...]

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There is something incredibly dreary about every supermarket ever known. As soon as you walk into one your heart sinks and you become a grumpy trolley shuffler, unless you’re one of those crazy basket people that goes to the supermarket at 6am after a brisk jog (in which case you should go away and eat [...]

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Everybody likes cupcakes.  Besides being tragically cute, the small portions make us feel a little less Miss Piggy and a little more Grace Kelly.  And I’ve never met a man who has refused one of my cupcakes, even when decorated with pink fluffy clouds of buttercream icing.
The best bit is that cupcakes are as easy [...]

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