You make 50 look good! You’ve got so much to look forward to in your 50s. In the words of Bob Hope: “I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything until noon. That’s when it’s time for my nap”.
We call it 50. The Spanish call it cincuenta. The Germans call it fünfzig. Czech call it Padesat. According to Malchkeoun, the Kalahari bushmen don’t even have a word for numbers that big. In whatever language, it’s a birthday worth celebrating!
Anna Allison of The Lion and Buffalo Fame Buffalo fame
The Polish apple cake winning over local
“I’m seeing life a little bit differently compared to before.
I know it’s just sport, it’s just tennis,” she said.
“(Though) you always want to do your best, of course.”
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Anna Allison of The Lion and Buffalo Fame Buffalo fame
The Polish apple cake winning over local
For Anna Allison, owner of the South Coogee cafe, the small but popular eatery is where her family history and community life collide. Regulars come ready with anecdotes, knitting clubs spin Skittles-coloured yarn at the communal table, runners stop for a pick-me-up after their weekend coastal jog.
Last year, locals gathered over free long blacks to mourn the passing of Pellegrini's co-owner, the legendary Melbournian Sisto Malaspina. "We've united a lot of locals," says Allison, "People who live within metres of each other for 40 years have met and became friends at the cafe."
Part of the reason community is so important to Allison is because she's had to find her own. A migrant from Poland, the former government worker knows what it's like to rebuild a life in a new city. As a result, diversity and inclusiveness is very much the cafe's lifeblood. Lion and Buffalo's staff come from all corners of the world. You'll notice this on the menu cover – a world map where tiny portraits of the team members are proudly planted on the countries of their birth.
Owner Anna Allison and chef Joice Rosa at the Lion and Buffalo cafe in South Coogee.JANIE BARRETT
Lion and Buffalo review: Community spirit (and mum's apple cake) at heart of cafe
To call Lion and Buffalo a corner cafe would be like summing up the Japanese decluttering guru Marie Kondo as a "neat person".
“I’m seeing life a little bit differently compared to before.
I know it’s just sport, it’s just tennis,” she said.
“(Though) you always want to do your best, of course.”
Bohemian Flower with a racquet: Petra Kvitova
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B.B. King knew your pain, sang it, and melted the blues away
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Five emerging Australian authors talk about writing
A couple of days ago I posted on 2018 in review at the complete review; here are some year-at-the-site and year-in-reading overviews from other weblogs:
- Year End Review #5: The Stats ! at Annabookbel
- 2018: ANZ LitLovers stats at ANZ LitLovers LitBlog
- 2018 Was The Year That I..... at Bookish Chat
- 2018 Statistical Roundup at Boston Bibliophile
- 2018 Book Stats at Half Man, Half Book
- December and 2018 Wrap-up at Lizzy's Literary Life
- End of year review 2018 at The Modern Novel
- 2018 Year End Review at The Reading Life
- The 2018 Tony's Reading List Awards at Tony's Reading List (as well as Your Favourite Posts of 2018)
- My Year in Reading Stats -- 2018 at Way Too Fantasy
- Best Books I Read 2018 at Beauty is a Sleeping Cat
- A year in reading at Biblioklept
- My Year in Reading: 2018 at the Big Other
- Putting the Shaken House in its New Order: My Year in Reading-2018 at The Book Binder's Daughter
- 2018 Year in Reading at Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau
- Every book I read in 2018, with commentary by Elisa Gabbert
- Reading in 2018 at in lieu of a field guide
- 2018: It's a Wrap at His Futile Preoccupations.....
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Speaking up
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, who has not given an
official press briefing from the White House briefing room since Dec. 18, was
asked about that during an interview on Wednesday’s “Fox & Friends.’’
White
House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders listens to a question as she
speaks with reporters outside the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019, in
Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
White
House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders listens to a question as she
speaks with reporters outside the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019, in
Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
“We’re in the business of getting information to the American
people,’’ Sanders said, “not making stars out of people that want to become
contributors on CNN.’’
Sanders pushed back on criticism that she isn’t cooperative with
the media.
“I take questions from reporters every single day,’’ Sanders
said. “The idea this White House is not accessible to the press is absolutely
laughable. I have done over 100 briefings, answered thousands of questions from
members of the press. … The president takes questions nearly every single day
from reporters. We’re on call 24 hours a day.’’
To her point, Sanders did meet with reporters outside the White
House on Wednesday.
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump tweeted
that he has told Sanders not to bother with news conferences from the briefing
room, but Sanders did not rule out a return to the briefing room.
“We’ll see what happens,’’ she said.
For the full Sanders
interview, go here.
The questions about the media briefings are at the 5:18 mark