The Shopping Sherpa

Summer seems to have made an unexpectedly early appearance here in Canberra with temperatures above 30 degrees c (80 degrees f) yesterday. ...

Welcome to my visitors from whipup.net. In your honour I'd like to tell you a story... Once upon a time (as all good stories start) The...

There's a bit of a theme happening with this week's frugalling purchases. Lots of white. (Total cost: $12.90) Well two themes, actua...

My Staff Cafeteria is a truly amazing place (if I can say so myself). Yesterday there was a cooking demonstration of another 10 minute meal...

It's been pointed out to me that I forgot to mention the reason for my being in Sydney this past weekend. It was Princess B's birthd...

In all the trips to Sydney I've done since I started blogging I haven't made it down to the bottom end of town to take the sort of p...

$25 doesn't buy you much in the big city these days. Unless you're The Shopping Sherpa, that is! Vinnies Rozelle did me good again o...

Today is Walk to Work Day . To mark the occasion I thought I'd share with you my journey to work this morning... Note the serious busine...

I made the fatal mistake of picking up the latest Living Etc before bed last night and stumbled across this: It's the Paint your Own Fe...

Over the past couple of weeks I had started to feel that my Frugalling Fairy has deserted me. After repeated visits to my usual haunts the o...

(Sorry couldn't resist that one) If you were wondering what the plot I was hatching was, wonder no more I spent this morning putting t...

Three day weekends are great. Three day weekends with not much planned are even better. And best of all are three day weekends that coincide...

From my bloglog stats today: Q: Google search: how do sherpa people dress and eat Shopping Sherpa's A: Very well, thank you! (Listenin...

Nigel Sutton as Krispin K I know I've mentioned Nigel Sutton before but I don't think I raved quite enough about how great I think ...

When I ventured out this morning to check the mail I found this sitting on the front porch. Very odd. I left it there in the hope the right...

What I should have been doing last night: * Business accounts for the taxman. * Making and writing a Thank You card to my Grandmother who ki...