This year’s Melbourne Cup lunch at work featured pizza from Stuzzico and yummy contributions from workmates who volunteered to bring something in. We ordered two full pizzas (1.5 metres long each) – one meat and one vegetarian. The vegetarian pizza was rocket, feta and olive. The meat one was prosciutto pizza. B brought homemade sausage…
Last Tuesday was Melbourne Cup day. Just like many other office people all over Australia that day, we had sweeps, watched the race and enjoyed a good lunch. This year, the team all chipped in for pizza and salad. J made the salad – English spinach, mixed salad greens, tomatoes and Greek feta, with a […]
A couple of years ago I wrote about Melbourne Cup Day and lamented being part of a too-small office of PhD students – I missed working in a big office and taking part in sweeps and lunch and getting caught up in the excitement of the day. Well, as I now work in a reasonably-sized […]
I just love the Melbourne Cup. I’m not into going to the races all tarted dressed up wearing ridiculous looking hats and drinking too much champagne (and spending too much money!). But I love watching the race on the telly and trying to pick the winner. In the couple of weeks leading up the big […]