Singing for Passports with Purpose

Have you bought your Passports with Purpose raffle tickets yet? I know, I know. It’s one week to the day before Christmas, you’re busy with last-minute gift shopping and festive cooking. Not to mention that your credit is well and truly crunched. But ’tis the season of goodwill … so please do take the time [...]

Motorbikes and jumping fish in Indonesia

In which our heroine rides a motorbike and swims at a waterfall in Sumatra, dashes out for Christmas shopping in Singapore, then flies home to Europe. I didn’t have time or a reliable internet connection (or at least not both at the same time) to update my blog after last Thursday’s post (now with added [...]

‘I will survive’ for Passports with Purpose

Just be glad it’s not me singing! Please support Passports with Purpose – we are raising money for Heifer International. There’s more about it on my travel blog Roaming Tales or you can head directly to check out the prize list and buy your raffle tickets. Tickets are $US10 each, it’s for a great causes [...]

Extroverted travelling builder

I took the 43 Things Personality Quiz and found out I’m an Extroverted Traveling Builder Extroverted and travelling I get but why the builder?

Photo Friday: Fantastic fungus

Liffey Falls, Tasmania; March 2007 The spectacular orange fungus was growing from a log next to Liffey Falls, a rainforest area in northern Tasmania, Australia. I was on a family holiday – driving around Tasmania in a campervan with my grandmother, two aunts and cousin. The walk down from our campsite to Liffey Falls was [...]

Postcard from Indonesia

Blogging from the road in central northern Sumatra. It was a short hop from Singapore to Medan in northern Sumatra with Silk Air – the sister airline to Singapore Airlines. It was very quick for me to get my visa on arrival and clear customs but it took longer for some of my traveling companions, [...]

Headed for Indonesia

Flying KLM from Amsterdam to Singapore and on to Medan in northern Sumatra tomorrow. I’m writing this from the Crowne Plaza hotel in Singapore’s Changi airport – we’re right in terminal 3 and I can literally hear the whine of the aircraft from my hotel room. Tomorrow we move on to Indonesia via Silk Air [...]

Our revels now are ended…

Smooth sailing for The Tempest. We had our production of The Tempest last Tuesday and we are now adjusting to life beyond the play. Hopefully we’ll have a cast reunion for pre-Christmas drinks very soon! There’s also talk of reviving the play in January, which I would absolutely love to do because I feel that [...]

Programme for The Tempest

By William Shakespeare, abridged and directed by Cat Clancy A Kinky Fish production in association with City Academy Dramatis personae Island dwellers Prospero Adam Mattison-Ward, Ahmed Arif, Richard Kirkcaldy Magician and Rightful Duke of Milan Miranda Caitlin Fitzsimmons Prospero’s daughter Caliban Gregory Lecointe and Alberto Santangelo Monster and Prospero’s slave Ariel Teagan Mann and Naomi [...]

What next for The Gooseberry Fool?

Please help me determine the future of this site. I hope you enjoy The Gooseberry Fool as much as I enjoy writing it. The intention of the site is to be a fun place where I can share stories and photographs about food – both cooking it and dining out – and discuss food issues. [...]

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