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		<title>Sydney&#8217;s cafe scene</title>
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I&#8217;ve been trawling different cafes around the estern and inner west suburbs of Sydney the past few months, doing some reviewing work for a Sydney guidebook coming out this year. Some of the winners I&#8217;ve been to include:
Clodeli in Clovelly for the coffee, rustic farmhouse atmosphere (the table had a basket of baby pumpkins on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A list. Just because.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nine weeks to go until motherhood begins.
What I&#8217;m anxious about:
1. Giving birth. I hear it hurts. My first two questions when we get to the hospital will be &#8220;how far along am I&#8221; and &#8220;how fast can you stick that needle in&#8221;.
2. That first day when we come home with the baby and realise we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefountainside.com/2010/03/04/a-list-just-because/</link>
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		<title>painting class</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I had my third painting class, which I&#8217;m enjoying immensely. In the first two classes, we just worked on colour charts: mixing paints, creating a tonal scheme, understanding how to match different colours for different effects. It felt a bit pointless at first, painting box after box of different colours, but I can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefountainside.com/2010/02/17/painting-class/</link>
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		<title>working from home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good news this month: I managed to land three freelance writing jobs in the last few weeks. My first ones! Hooray!
The downside, though, is that it means I&#8217;ve unwittingly started doing the &#8216;working from home&#8217; thing before figuring out what that actually means. We don&#8217;t have a study and the Mac is situated in our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefountainside.com/2010/02/15/working-from-home-2/</link>
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		<title>Buying books?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine put me on to booko recently. It&#8217;s an Australian site which surfs the web and finds you the cheapest online prices for books. Plenty of Moore College set texts are available. Interestingly, Amazon is not often at the top of the list.
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		<link>http://www.thefountainside.com/2010/02/09/buying-books/</link>
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		<title>Embracing the rain</title>
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My favourite thing about a rainy day is how it makes lazing around and doing nothing seem like perfectly legitimate behaviour.
If the weather is warm, I always feel like I&#8217;m somehow wasting all that sunshine and being a spoil sport if I sit at home in my pyjamas, watching TV show reruns while eating mini [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefountainside.com/2010/02/05/embracing-the-rain/</link>
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		<title>Perfect parenting: a myth?</title>
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Parenting can seem like a matter of formulas to the inexperienced. Raise a child a certain way, teach them good values and ta-da! A healthy and well adjusted adult eighteen years later. As our baby&#8217;s due date draws closer, I can&#8217;t help but dream of how we&#8217;re going to raise him to be the kind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefountainside.com/2010/02/03/perfect-parenting-a-myth/</link>
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		<title>My breakfast table</title>
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Breakfast was a hurried affair when I had a full-time job &#8211; a piece of toast or bowl of cereal, coffee then straight out the door. Since I&#8217;ve stopped working, I&#8217;ve enjoyed taking my time in the mornings and breakfast is now my favourite meal of the day.
In honour of this often undervalued meal, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefountainside.com/2010/02/01/my-breakfast-table/</link>
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		<title>Hello</title>
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Hello all. We&#8217;re back after a two month break. Sorry for the perpetual &#8220;maintenance&#8221; sign and the fact we weren&#8217;t back after 60 minutes!
Much has happened since we went offline, the biggies being I was made redundant, Sam started full time work at Pablo and Rusty&#8217;s (he stops when the college term starts) and we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefountainside.com/2010/01/31/hello/</link>
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		<title>Bright Star</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day I recieved a two-for-one movie voucher to see Jane Campion&#8217;s new movie Bright Star in January (and here is a link to a gorgeous website on the production of the film). I&#8217;m quite keen to see it as I&#8217;m a massive fan of Campion&#8217;s work, but would you believe I&#8217;ve never read any poetry [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefountainside.com/2009/12/09/bright-star/</link>
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