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It’s National Banana Bread Day. Yup, You Read Me Right.
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Recipes for Optimising This Historic Day Are As Follows. It’s another fortuitous Friday, my friends! And this one is special. Arguably, the national sweet treat of our country is banana bread. Who of us hasn’t enjoyed a tasty morsel of B-bread? Either made with love by someone dear to us or from a local corner cafe? We’ll speculate less than 1%. But ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, first of all, we need to be transparent. Banana Bread was an American invention! During the 1930s, the Depression hit the US in a big way. Money for food had to be...
A Tale of Kris Kringle and The Secret Santa Code of Conduct.
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T’was the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even your lovely co-workers, your parents, siblings or spouse, or that new group of friends from the gym that you just met three weeks ago … Big Yikes Pulp Fam! Gift-giving szn is upon us, but no drama. We have the goods to help you through it. There are two versions of Secret Santa. The first is the Origin Story of the practice of ‘Secret Santa’ AKA Kris Kringle. And it is a chronicle of kindness. In the 1970s, an American philanthropist called Larry Dean...
Wanna Hear a Joke About a Piece of Paper? Never Mind ... It’s Tearable …
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Mmmhmm, Yup. It’s Dad Joke Season, AKA Father’s Day. That’s September 3rd for y’all who didn’t know. But before I launch into a full annotated list of cringe-worthy witticisms, let's take a closer look … The origins of this day to celebrate the big guy in your life actually come from a woman called Sonora Smart Dodd. Ms Dodd took inspo from the idea of Mother’s Day. In 1910, while hearing a church sermon about the newly coined Day For Mothers, she felt strongly that Fathers - and her Father in particular!- needed recognition. You see, her Dad was a...
What Makes Us Happy: Homewares Made Cute.
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When it comes to furnishing one's home, there is literally nothing more satisfying than finding something you never knew you needed but now can’t live without. An ‘A-Hah moment’ lifehack turned into a daily habit. Think of towels. Think of incense holders. Think of cups, drink bottles and carafe sets. Now imagine that you can decorate and consume out of the most beautiful sets. Yes. Happiness. Everyone knows that coffee makes you happy. In Italy, the rise of espresso consumption was associated with industrialization and urbanization in the early 1900s. Nowadays, having an espresso machine is like a little piece...
Mum is the word. The best word.
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Ever heard of Anna Jarvis? She is basically the mother of Mother’s Day. An activist who cared for soldiers in the aftermath of the American civil war, she organised women’s groups to promote friendship and health. In 1870, alongside another peace promoter and suffragette, Julia Ward Howe, Jarvis lobbied for a "Mother's Day For Peace" where mothers would ask that their husbands and sons were no longer killed in wars. It called upon mothers of all nationalities to unite to promote the "amicable settlement of international questions, the great and general interests of peace”. Forty years later, in 1907, ‘Mother’s...