StreetSmart
You might have noticed the StreetSmart logo in the right sidebar. The annual StreetSmart campaign, which raises money to help the homeless, kicks off tomorrow. It’s one of those ideas that is so simple: participating restaurants add a small donation to your bill (you’re welcome to increase it from the standard $2, but don’t forget your usual tip!). As they note on the site – this isn’t even the cost of a cup of coffee, these days. I’m planning to restrict myself to only eating at StreetSmart supporters for the duration of the campaign. Restrict, though, is probably a misleading word – check out the list of supporters! It’s certainly no hardship to eat that list.
For those of you following @StreetSmartAust on Twitter, you can also eat, tweet, and (perhaps) be treated. (Remember to use #SSEats for your entries.)
Thanks to Ed at Tomato for revving up the Twitter and blogger communities to support this!
Recaps
I’ve been busy over at Reality Ravings this week. Hell’s Kitchen is winding up, Beauty and the Geek is hotting up, and The Amazing Race is… really a tad boring this season.
Reading
I’ve finished Swallows and Amazons. How did I not read this in my childhood? Perhaps I got into too much of a Jill’s Perfect Ponies rut, because I know it was always on the bookshelf at the Mornington house. It certainly would have fuelled some of the adventure fantasies during all those canoeing-fishing-campfiring Gippsland lakes holidays… Next up? Lord of the Flies, which I’m sure I’ve quoted and successfully answered trivia questions on, without having read it.
