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Craving for Coconuts

I dragged myself out of bed this morning looking like something just escaped from a Matrix pod.
After 4 days of vegetating in the cot feeling sorry for myself and cursing the injuries sustained in my reckless youth, I had an insatiable hunger for coconuts. Why coconuts? I have no bloody idea.
Coconuts have antiviral, antibacterial, [...]

Posted by: Canny Granny on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Vegemite ban payback for missing Athletes

I think I know the origins of the savage ban on vegemite to the Olympic competitors from Australia. It’s payback for the Commonwealth Games. Payback for those missing athletes.
You heard about the missing athletes of course. Eleven of them. All went missing from their cozy little cabins in the new Commonwealth Games Athletics Village [...]

Posted by: Canny Granny on Sunday, May 4th, 2008

Vegemite Olympic Saga continues

The Chinese Olympics committee may have banned athletes bringing their own chow into the Olympic village, but the Americans are bringing in tonnes of food, which they will eat at a local university outside the Olympic Park.
Australian athletes are meanwhile suffering from vegemite withdrawal and will in all probability come last in their events.
China says [...]

Posted by: Canny Granny on Thursday, May 1st, 2008