BITES OF EXCESS: JULY 2025

ATE:

• Discovered Cadbury Sticky Toffee Slices. Don't say I didn't warn you.

• Far too many of Scoot's Cookies. Crumbly, buttery, chunky bliss.

• Truffles on my potato scallops at The Union Bank on Friday arvo.

DRANK:

• Naked Life non-alcoholic Mojito in a can from Naked Life.

• Broke Dry July by revisiting an old favourite over the weekend: See Saw Wine's Gee Gee.

SAW:

• The Archibald, Wynne & Sulman Prize Exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW

Watched:

• ‘Aussie Shore’ (the local iteration of notorious Geordie Shore) and surprisingly, I didn’t hate it. Obviously, it’s terrible. But it’s also funny, shocking, harmless, NSFW and kind of endearing?

• Orange Theatre Company's school holiday production of HONK! Jr. - based on The Ugly Duckling.

• Happy Gilmore 2 and I LOVED it. Hits every mark.

READ:

• This quick Esquire Q+A with Dan Single, founder of Ksubi.

Listened to:

• Triple J's Hottest 100 Australian Songs countdown, obviously.

On repeat:

• Like everyone else with a Netflix account, we're in our K-Pop era and I cannot get this ear-worm out of my head (or car, or living room).

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