Comments for Isaac Freeman

Comment on Bike is back. No longer depend… by Isaac

Isaac — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:09:03 +0000

This is true, but not as big a problem as it might seem. Buses are unpredictable in the sense that my mental map of their overall route doesn’t always match the actual one. But at the finer level of changing lanes, indicating, giving way and that sort of thing, I seldom have trouble understanding their intentions.

Comment on Bike is back. No longer depend… by Scott

Scott — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:55:27 +0000

Except that surely you remain dependent on unpredictable buses in the sense that you depend on them not turning in unexpected directions and thus reducing your pedal power into a modern art object.

Comment on That was a rolly earthquake. by Cindy

Cindy — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:17:00 +0000

felt it in Christchurch, was a big rolly!!

Comment on Questions about Dating and Questions about Questions by Louise

Louise — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 04:33:07 +0000

Marmite or Vegemite?
This is seriously a question I ask on the first date. Through years of observation I have found that Marmiters can date Bi-Miters or No-Miters, but never a Vegemiter (and vice versa). I have also discovered that you shouldn’t reveal your theory prior to the question being answered – it leads to lies and deception with many men claiming to be Bi-Miters when in fact they are really Vegemiters who only eat Marmite if desperate – not a true Bi-Miter, therefore not really worthy of dating a Marmiter such as myself. Blimmin heck.

Comment on Top tip for @fauxparse : haird… by Isaac

Isaac — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:40:07 +0000

Ah, well, it’s one or the other I’m afraid.

Comment on Top tip for @fauxparse : haird… by Matt

Matt — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:28:37 +0000

But that counts as me feigning interest in THEIR lives, which I don’t want to do either.

Comment on A Natural History of Lolly Cake by Caiteepotatee

Caiteepotatee — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:21:42 +0000

I’m a Kiwi living in Melbourne and I’m just about to make Lolly cake for my son’s kindy christmas party tomorrow. I too have trouble finding the right ingredients so I’ve always used Banana Lollies in place of eskimos or fruit puffs. Instead of Malt I use plain Arrowroot biscuits and then add some cocoa to get a chocolate flavour. I roll the cake in sprinkles instead of coconut as the kids seem to go for that. In NZ years ago I used to be able to find plain chocolate biscuits to crush (pak n save I remember used to sell Snoopy ones which were great). But I can’t find them here.

Comment on A Natural History of Lolly Cake by Andrew Gallagher

Andrew Gallagher — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:55:43 +0000

Hi,
I am from Lollyworld, the lolly shop at Lawnton, Brisbane, Australia.
Yes we have New Zealanders in our shop raving about Lolly Cakes everyday.
The original Fruit Puffs ( I think it was made by Pascalls) are not available any more.
We do have a New Zealand substitute made by the brand Rainbow. They are the only Fruit Puffs I can find around, they are a little different to the original, a little denser and not as foamy.
When no Fruit Puffs were available in Australia the die hard fans used Eskimos (made by Pascalls) and broke them up to spread through the Lolly Cake mix.
New Zealanders have to be the most loyal customers to their home country foods.
We even have the Maggi Onion Soup in store and customers always remark why would soup be in a lolly store? Because it is used to make a dip and our New Zealand customers are fanatical about it.

Comment on Spilling dark blood to honour Artemis by Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:47:32 +0000

break a leg mate!
isnt that what youre supposed to say?

Comment on A Natural History of Lolly Cake by Cec

Cec — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:33:10 +0000

I found this website today while looking for the recipe for Lolly Cake to make for all the Australians i work with. So armed with my list off to the confectionary warehouse at Hendra in Brisbane and found fruit puffs and malt biscuits – so now im just waiting on it to set so i can taste test it before i take it to work. I cant wait. Thanks for the recipe.