My Mum came round for a visit today and brought me Lindt bunnies, homegrown baby beetroot and garlic, and... Stephanie Alexander's Kitchen Garden Companion, which is an enormous book about food from planting the seeds to cooking it and eating it all up! So we had roasted beetroot salad for dinner, from one of the recipes, using the yummy garden

I've just had a lovely weekend. On Saturday I had a lazy start, cleaned the house, did the yoga, got dresses and went to the wee junk shop. I came back with some rice pattern chinese tea cups and little dishes and a plant stand which the Scotsman let me have for $10. And then I poodled around on the internets and around the house until evening, ( Read more... )

Soooo, it's the same old, I've been lazy and bad and not posted in ages. What is new? Not a lot. I still like my job, and I still seem to be a lazy arse most of the time. I've made a couple of these http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/ANTIQUE-PURPLE-BEADED-MOTI-SARI-WINDOW-DOOR-TOPPER-TORAN-VALANCE-WALL-HANGING-/220955244767?pt= ( Read more... )

Chocolate ripple cakes are go!

Yesterday both of my remaining pairs of sunglasses broke, boo. And then the cheapo pairs I bought two weeks ago turned up in the post today. So that was handy.

Oh, springtime!

I just feel a whole lot happier all over. Everything is better.

A glass of champagne on a school night doesn't hurt, either :P

Yep.

Oh look, I sort of got my act together and uploaded photos of things and stuff.

Fejoas!


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Did a day trip to Kingston as planned. We had lunch at Citrus Moon; where I had possibly the best chai I've ever tasted. So I asked what sort it was, and did they sell it, and they did and they sold me some :D Not the cheapest stuff on earth,(saving it for treats) it's very nearly decaf, it has to be kept in the fridge, and it tastes SO GOOD ( Read more... )

The wind is ripping around the house and making the windows bang as if there is a hooligan outside thumping on them, just for kicks. I've been catching up on Tudors (so terrible it's great) episodes on iview and trying to get one more motif crocheted before I crawl into bed to put cold feet on the dude's back.