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Tell me what you want

Rachel — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:02:08 +0000

In the past week this blog has been undergoing a redesign and refocus. If you're reading this in a feed reader and haven't clicked through to the blog lately, I'd appreciate a moment of your time if you can spare it, to take a look and tell me what you think.

I'm aiming for more structure in the posts themselves and a more regular posting schedule. I'd appreciate it if you could take a second to complete the survey below (you can select up to 3 options) and tell me which type of posts you'd like to see more of.

Hopefully this will mean more useful and interesting posts for you. Please feel free to leave any further comments below.

Thank you!

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I don’t want to live here anymore

Absence and edits (and lions and tigers and bears, oh my!)

Rachel — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:20:20 +0000

I have been horribly slack in posting lately. It isn't because I don't love you. I have been overseas and subsequently dealing with the fun sort of complications in life that always seem to happen at the most inconvenient time.

I'm taking my own advice and taking life slowly. I will be back shortly (with a new improved layout) but in the meantime feel free to have a chat to me on t witter.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder..or forget. One of the two.

Rachel — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:18:41 +0000

No, I haven't run away to a lovely deserted island with no internet access. Although, who hasn't, when looking at a massive pile of ironing still to do, imagined running away to a place where it doesn't matter if your shirts are wrinkled and your collars aren't starched?

I'm still here but I have been ill and, as my grandmother would say, took to my bed. Please forgive me my frailties! I'm on the mend now and once I've caught up with the housework, if there's anyone still reading, we'll be back to the scheduled programming.

Topics to cover soon:

the dreaded school reunion
cooking by senses, not by numbers
keeping a house clean when you have 7 minutes not 7 days a week
something else scrawled in my notebook downstairs that I can't remember

I have moved!

Rachel — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:25:44 +0000

Please note that I have moved my blog to a new server. You have been automatically redirected to the new address. Please update any bookmarks or feeds to http://www.beyondbeeton.com

I am currently testing out some new themes and designs so I apologise if the site appears broken. Please let me know whether you like or hate the new look.

This is for technorati - hello robots! Technorati Profile

Thanks for your patience!

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I don’t want to live here anymore

Rachel — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:56:29 +0000

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 can be happy again.

If you are in Australia, please call Lifeline on 13 11 14. They are available to speak to you 24 hours a day. There are similar services in other countries too. Please don't give up.

My blog has been online for all of 3 days now and is kindly hosted for me gratis.

However I feel like a teenager tentatively taking the first steps towards independence and a giant glaring hole of debt.

I want my very own hosting account to match my very own domain name - http://www.beyondbeeton.com - which doesn't currently do very much because it just redirects you here.

If I knew how to put in a poll I'd add one now.

So just pretend there's a poll here. I'd like to hear from you. Should I move to my very own account?

If there are no responses I'll assume the answer is a (or to save my very fragile ego, that you all hate polls, even pretend ones).

a) Don't be silly, nobody reads your blog anyway.
b) I don't care.
c) There's a way to change it and redirect the few people reading so far, you gumnut, and it will be ok.
d) No really, I don't care.

Beyond Beeton: Introduction

Rachel — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:35:50 +0000

There is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly-cooked dinners and untidy ways.

(Isabella Beeton, The Book of Household Management, 1861)

While the world has moved on since 1861, the fundamental need for a repository of information on household management remains. Arguably, the need is even more pronounced in 2008.

This guide is not an anti-feminist diatribe. Nor does it seek to reposition women back into the kitchen, barefoot and silent. What I aim to do is to provide the essentials of running a modern home, for both men and women.

Unfortunately I'm still trying to work it all out myself. I'm just a 20-something woman who is trying her hardest (and sometimes gets it right) to manage a career, marriage, household and still have time for all of the important things, like shoes, food, wine and coffee.

One relationship, two careers – how to cope