Thursday Happy Hour 5-6pm

What's normally a trying time was happy hour yesterday..... You gotta love those moments

Bit of Paul Kelly and the Stormwater Boys turned up to almost max, and the dress ups used earlier in the day at playgroup laying around made for some frivolous time

Nothing beats a wood heater

A comment on a previous post reminded me that i was going to post this...

21st November 2010

It has now been 3 nights in a row that we have not had to light the fire...

Rain on the garden

Why is it that copious amounts of watering simply does not have the same affect on the garden as a little rain??

Do chickens really eat that much???

It would appear not.. Someone was helping themselves.. Ahh, living in the country is quite and peaceful (now)

Stir up Sunday

Stir up Sunday came a bit early this year. I thought the day was 5 Sundays before Christmas, but it turns out it's the last sunday before the change of the seasons... Oh well, the puds are hanging!

Just found another recipe that uses Guinness, might be another batch going in....

You gotta love this city.....

  9.30am - Date scones for morning tea, but alas, bakery all sold out
12.09pm - Bang last nights leftover spag in the zapper for 4 minutes
12.10pm - Race to a different bakery than this mornings to get some ciabatta to go with left over Spaghetti while its in the zapper, sold out of all bread
12.11pm - Zip round the corner to a different bakery while the spag is still being zapped. Closed
12.12pm - Racing against the zapper, zip to a different bakery for some bread. Closed
12.14pm - Back behind the desk, carb loading on last nights left over spag after the mini marathon
12.16pm - Finished replacing the carbs i burnt whilst on the hunt for bread. Still hungry

South Esk Fishing

I had been planning to make Christmas pudding yesterday, but thanks to a "man" read off the recipe, i forgot to soak the calico, so the pudding will be made tonight. With everyone else in the house pre-occupied, i grabbed the bike and pedalled down to the river for a quick fish. Managed one nice brown trout

I smoked him in the webber and he tasted hmmmm, well, pretty much like the bottom of the river mixed with a handful of charcoal.... I'll definitely be practicing catch and release on this stretch of river in the future.