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I've got a KeepCup and my regular cafe loves it - fits nicely under the nozzles on the machine. Plus you can write your coffee preference on the colourful band, which is handy on busy days. It can go in the dishwasher too, which makes things easier for me.

I don't mind a bit of fruitcake - in Australia it's a bit old-fashioned, but not as reviled as it is in the US. I like it with butter, but the idea of a sharp cheddar is genius! Will definitely give that a go.

Kangaroo is becoming more popular in Australia lately - it's more eco-friendly than beef, etc. It's not hard to cook, exactly, it's more that people want to treat it the same as other meats but it needs it's own methods. It can be tough or too gamey. But if you get it right, it's delicious and rich. The marinade in the link looks perfect to me, I'll be giving it a go.

Clever idea, but I don't think I'll ever need to find storage for 17 hand-towels!

My first ad complaint: On my laptop, in the see-all-pics page, the ad is so huge that it partially covers the first row of thumbnails. On individual picture pages, it pushes the next/back thumbnails off the right-hand side of the page.

I realise you guys want to make money, but if you wreck the content to do it, who do you think will keep visiting? I feel less like a visitor to the site and more like a cost-per-impression consumer being herded past as many moneymaking opportunities as possible.

The house itself looked lovely from what I could tell - the photos were blurry and I lost patience with trying to get around the ad.

Thumbs up for entering! What a tiny place, and it's clear you've made a real effort to turn it into a home instead of a little box to live in. That said, I think it'd really help if you grouped the pictures closer to create a larger arrangement (or perhaps put them in large frames with wide mats, in a cream colour maybe?). They look very lonely scattered along the walls like that.

Covered storage for your books and music would help too - I'm not a big fan of hiding your passions away in cupboards, but seeing so many of them makes it look more cluttered than it really is.

amynyc, I was about to suggest the same thing. I got the idea from the Discardia website (scroll down to the heading "How do you let go of a souvenir without letting go of the time it reminds you of").

The memory is what's precious, not the object, and taking photos or recording the memory in some way can help you send the physical object on to someone else who needs it.

That was really good, thanks for the link. Poor Scooby! He could have been given to a charity, or a hospital, but ended up in landfill.

suziegoombs, I would think that a fatter spiral would help with larger-sized needles (or maybe a lever-arch file?).

I was thinking that this would be good for organising all the little gift-tags I keep buying, then forgetting to use because they're stuck in plastic bags where I can't see them.

I liked the idea of the book club, but would like a shorter schedule. Or as an alternative, AT Green could post when they start reading a book, giving us notice to either read it too or refresh our memories, then when AT posts a review we could all join in with our own reviews? It'd be less formal than a bookclub, not sure if that'd suit people.

PS - I'm logged in, but it still won't let me take the survey?