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Officeworks and Reflex paper: “I have to pay my mortgage and feed my dogs”

September 12, 2011 – 5:34 pm

Officeworks Lismore: a Bulletin On Saturday I drove 72 kms. round-trip to my local Officeworks store in Lismore, NSW in the vain hope that they might have stopped stocking Reflex paper. I signed the pledge and the petition (with 11,000 others!) months ago and so far my boycott has meant that I have taken my [...]

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Chocolate Chip Cookies

July 24, 2009 – 2:26 am

  I was visiting a city friend recently. We have no oven in our shed in the bush, so the sight of someone preparing to bake was deeply satisfying. “What are you baking?” I asked Bill, as he patted the lumpy, brown blobs. Knowing he was a vegetarian, I was prepared for lentil burgers. “Chocolate [...]

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Local Wisdom about Apartment Storage

July 20, 2009 – 2:25 am

When I lived in Vancouver in 2007, teaching and managing a housing research project at the University of British Columbia, I had several interesting accommodation experiences. The first one was terrible: a chronically ill middle-aged couple with a dog who was dying of cancer. They slept with the dog and spent all day in their [...]

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