Highly Enthused

The sunshine had us energised this week and we are ticking things off our to-do lists left and right as we get ready for our first week outta lockdown. Baking cakes! Roasting peppers! Buying bikinis and chargrilling skewers and binging entire seasons of gripping television in one weekend! 

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The end is in sight! Picnics are here! We're vibrating with new energy this week and have lots for you - about five things to up your picnic game (spoiler alert - just order pizza), a podcast that will make your brain melt, a 2-step strawberry recipe, a foreplay game and a website that tracks cool people's holidays to cool places. Sign. Us. Up. 

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Outro music - Swamp Dogg, Lonely

It's the first day of spring!! And this weeks ep has more food recommendations than you can shake a stick at! (As well as a couple of non-food recs we managed to scrounge up.) We've got a cookbook worth dog-earing, two recipes that'll have you eating your greens, Gen Z inspired nail art, not one but TWO new podcasts to get obsessed with and are we..breaking up with linen sheets? 

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Oh hey, we're back with perhaps our longest episode ever? Lots of juicy tidbits this week including an addictive new show, a dish with black pepper as its star, a frightening doco, tunes to bop to, restaurant food delivered, and more!

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This episode is supported by the book-loving honeys at WellRead, a book subscription service that always knows what you'll want to read next. See their website for more information and to order something for yourself, or to treat a mate in lockdown. 

We've released a whole box of snacks over at drnks.com, head to their packs section for a box containing a curated selection of all our favourite things to eat and drink, while stocks last (and stocks are verrrry limited). 

Lockdown has us going a little loopy. Our screen time is wayyyyy up and we're at the "just say yes" to all our impulses stage. Yes to baths! Yes to cocktails! Yes to plastic toys! Yes to skincare and homewares and reading kids books as adults! As always we cover all angles in this weeks ep - from margs in the bath to a checker-print oven mitt, a sandwich good enough to eat for dinner, new homewares to perk up your Tuesday afternoon, and croissants so delicious they're worth walking 10km for. 

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It's a lockdown special! Are we over it? Yes! But do we still have fun and delicious things to share? Always! From a burnished cheesecake to a fuzzy, cozy throw rug, cold noodles and a cute little snack of a book, we have it all, folks. 

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Trying and failing to have it all! Attachment theory jokes! A love letter to Sarah Snook! Wanting to be slapped in the face (by observations)! Other kinds of consensual face touching! Decorating choice paralysis! A perfect gift for a pondering writer! A way out of our podcast ruts! 

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We've got no less than THREE cafe recommendations for you this week, team, three! These come with a side of two very special vinos, some rib-tickling denim, Danish STUFF you clearly need to add to cart, a book with actual plot (shock! horror!) and plenty more exceptional trinkets and tidbits to fill your time. 

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