The weeks in brief: 22 April – 5 May
Hello everyone.
(I like belly rubs and cuddles.)
Right, the last fortnight. I did some plate proning. All the prettiness…
As for food, remember when I was obsessed with Snag Stand?
I visited recently after not being there in ages.
I had a chilli dog, which was still good, but they ran out of fries (what the what) so I ordered onion rings. Which were, sadly, pretty terrible. They were quite oily and the oil tasted old. I ate a couple and left the rest, which is how bad they were.
Last weekend dad kept muttering about eating Spanish fried rice (paella… haha…) so I took the parents to South Melbourne market. As well as paella we also ordered octopus, meatballs, and chips – basically way too much food for the three of us.
Then I bought coffees from Clement Coffee and couldn’t resist buying two of their salted caramel donuts to take home. Even though I was super full. They just looked really good, okay… (and they were).
Can I please go off food for a second? (Of course I can, it’s my blog.) I bought this comic – Dial H – because: China Mieville. True to form, it was very weird and quite confusing.
(If you haven’t read any China Mieville books, I highly recommend them. They can be quite… imaginative and full on, but also amazing. In particular I love Perdido Street Station, The City and the City, and Embassytown.)
This weekend I went on an op shop crawl with Shellie, Hazzie and Thanh. We did pretty well – we managed to visit 12 op shops and the Vintage Shed.
I didn’t buy anything at the Vintage Shed (though I got a fair amount from the other stops – you’ll see in a few pictures) though I did fall in love with this stupidly expensive vinyl zebra. I mean, look at his face… (And I know, I like ridiculous things.)
I satisfied myself with a cheesy photo of Mr Zebra and myself and left him behind. Saved myself $48!
In the middle of our op shopping trip, we stopped at Barmah Park winery for lunch (disclosure: it was a comped meal).
The meal was a little mixed – some parts were really good, and a couple of things weren’t so good. Our biggest problem was that the fried calamari was oddly sweet – like sugar had been put into the batter by accident – except it was also very salty at the same time.
Other dishes were better though – the pumpkin gnocchi in particular was awesome, and so was dessert. But I’ll go into detail in a later post.
Oh and this is my haul from op shopping. 🙂
I GOT SO MANY NEW SPORKS.
Happiness!
Today, Alastair and I went to Intercontinental Rialto for High Coffee – a take on afternoon tea, except with coffee instead of tea (disclosure: we were invited). We started with an espresso martini, then had cold savouries, warm savouries, scones, sweets, coffee, and then raspberry sorbet to finish.
I had ingested way too much caffeine and sugar by the end (hello shakes) but it was good fun.
I’ll leave you with another catspam. Have a lovely week!
Keren
May 6, 2013 @ 7:17 am
High coffee?! Finally someone’s talking my language 🙂
Agnes
May 11, 2013 @ 7:32 pm
It is SUCH a good idea, particularly for Melbourne 🙂
Daisy@Nevertoosweet
May 6, 2013 @ 8:46 am
Oh oh oh what shop was the Second pic from? I want everything there!! And need to go op shopping too! I keep buying the new stuff which is super expensive 🙁 Wallet doesn’t like me much hehe
Agnes
May 11, 2013 @ 7:33 pm
The second pic was Myer – so. much. prettiness.
Genie
May 6, 2013 @ 12:03 pm
I love Mr zebra too. I would try and figure out a way to incorporate it into my house. An extra deck chair perhaps? I have to be honest with you, I’m not terribly fond of sporks, but I suppose that’s more sporks in the world for you 🙂 I really didn’t know that there were vintage sporks. I’ve only seen plastic sporks.
Agnes
May 11, 2013 @ 7:35 pm
Oh my gosh, sporks are the best cutlery ever in the world! Haha. 😀
Hannah
May 7, 2013 @ 11:12 am
The answer to life, the universe, and everything!
Agnes
May 11, 2013 @ 7:36 pm
That’s right!
Got your towel?
leaf (the indolent cook)
May 8, 2013 @ 12:13 am
My, look at all those sporks! Also, I want to give kitteh lots of cuddles and belly rubs. Soooooo cuuuuuuuuuute.
Agnes
May 11, 2013 @ 7:37 pm
I have so many sporks now… so many….
msihua
May 11, 2013 @ 7:12 pm
TWO CATSPAM? EGAD! oooo.. You should have bought that zebra 😛
Agnes
May 11, 2013 @ 7:38 pm
But Mr Zebra was so expensive! (He was so cute though…)
Iron Chef Shellie
May 14, 2013 @ 10:45 am
YAY for op shopping. wah for zebras being so pricey 🙁