Breakfast, lunch, dinner, high tea, low tea, morning tea, brunch. What about elevenses, luncheon, afternoon tea, supper, and as any self-respecting Lord of the Rings fan will be asking right about now, “What about second breakfast?”
In many cultures eating has had a bit of a paradigm shift from fuelling our bodies, as it did back in caveman days, to being a social event.
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Breakfast is my favourite - hands down! Everyone is more alert in the morning (or at least after the first coffee) and a catchup with friends sets the scene for the rest of the day.
Jane of Bentleigh
Definitely a degustation !!
Terry Wallins of Collaroy
I’m quite fortunate in that everything at my place is in good working order. I’m also a bit of a self-sufficient kind of girl. I know one end of a screwdriver from the other, I can attach ends to a coax lead to make a TV cable and I can unblock my own drains without significant incident - emphasis on the term “significant”.
But I digress. My point is that I don’t often have a need for a tradie, so when the odd thing explodes, falls off or has red wine spilled on it (you smirk, but it happens with strange regularity), how do you find someone who is going to do an efficient, appropriately-priced job?
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While all of us in the TrueLocal.com.au office were in the throes of Valentine’s Day yesterday we came across some interesting information, and we promise we won’t tell your mum.
We noticed a sharp spike in people looking for adult services, including escort agencies, in the month of February, with the annual peak hitting on February 15. So it seems that after all the cupids and love-hearts of Valentine’s Day have faded we get back to love in a very different sense.
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These people should never get married.
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Mark of Bray park
Happy Expectations Day… *ahem* Valentine’s Day everyone!
The other day I received an exasperated SMS from my dear friend Matt, vehemently ruing the day he ever laid eyes on a supermarket self-checkout. He made no secret of the fact his blood pressure rises whenever he hears the robotic phrase “unexpected item in bagging area”.
While Matt is a smart guy and it doesn’t take much to figure these contraptions out, I’ve lost count of other intelligent people I know who are sick of going 10 rounds with these things every time they need to quickly grab a couple of items from the supermarket.
Personally, I adore them. Then again, in the spirit of honesty I will disclose that I am known to be slightly pedantic. I can’t trust another person to pack my groceries – every time I do my bread and eggs are squashed by my milk.
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I personally hate the self-service machines that are popping up at supermarkets! I want to be able to just put my stuff on the conveyer belt and pay at the end! Why would I want to scan, weigh and bag my only items while paying the same amount of money. I reckon I should get a 10-20% discount for using these bloody annoying machines!
I have used them 3 times and while I dont find them technically challenging, I find the whole process very annoying. Now I just pick a line with an actual check out chick and wait a little longer.
Nick of St Peters
I don’t mind using them myself. What really annoys me is when the people in front of me do one of 3 things (and it happens...well too often!)
1) Have about 3,000 items in their trolley but decide that self-service checkout is for them
2) Don’t know how to use them. Come on - they’ve been in my local shops for over a year now? Can it truly be that every time I go shopping there’s someone who hasn’t used them before?
3) Know how to use them. Very slowly. V e r y s l o w l y. Or even slower.
I think we need another whole set of self-checkout lines: One for people who won’t bother me, and another for people like me. Surely that’s not asking too much 
Sean of Strathfield
Back in Elizabethan times single ladies would pin bay leaves to their pillows on the eve of Valentine’s Day in the hope they would dream of their future spouse. How times have changed.
Nowadays we celebrate Valentine’s Day with cookie-cutter romance - flowers, chocolates and red cards with standard messages in them.
I’ll step out on a limb here and say Valentine’s Day is now based on the expectation of having our partners buy us something to show how much they care. I hereby rename Valentine’s Day to Expectations Day.
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I have never been one to buy presents on Valentines day because to me it seems insincere, commercially motivated and generally a horrible and thoughtless idea. I do however subscribe to the idea that this day be used to do something special with your partner. In the past, it has been picnics, beautiful breakfasts, weekends away, etc. I think it should be used to bring the couple closer, not buy them pointless gifts that whither and die.
As a side note, I would never buy a girl Roses as I find them cliched! I do love buying a girl flowers, just not Roses.
Nick of St Peters
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