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Simmer Down Podcast: Moon Cake Festival

Podcast Co-Host, Producer and Editor: Brenda Anderson Guest: Chia Chong Sound Engineer: Clayton De Wet Our own Chia Chong is a guest on this week’s Simmer Down Podcast. Chia shares her memories […]

chicken keeping then and now

In the olden days you’d throw down some scratch, call it a day and that was “keeping chickens.” Oh, and you had a stone-sharpened hatchet by the kitchen door and an old tree stump in the yard.

These days, a defining accessory – “good riddance” infinity pools, fasts cars and cute babies in aerospace industry engineered strollers – chickens both domestic and imported live at the level to which their owners are accustomed.

You Say Pocketbook, I Say Purse

It’s not been until my latter adult life that I learned that pocketbook was the universal term for “handbag”. Either way, a girls gotta have one with her at all times –where else would we store our receipts and change, right? A purse defines your mood and look (I would say “outfit”, but I despise that word).