Had friends over today - we've been doing catch-ups more often this year which is great. Pip is often frantically busy but comes when she can and the four of us sit and talk and drink tea and sometimes I bake things or we just have fruit and we might watch movies or talk and talk for hours ( Read more... )

I don't know what my body is doing, I really don't. Recuperating from last week, I hope.

The long weekend passed in a blur of sleeping, waking, realising I wasn't all that awake, going back to bed, waking up, trying to work out what day it was ... you get the idea. There were also white chocolate bilbies on Sunday, which is really the only point of ( Read more... )

Fig, Mint and Honey Galette. Niiice way to eat figs! Possibly add a touch of nutmeg? Cinnamon? Not sure.

Another nice way to eat figs: Linguine with Fresh Figs, Chard and Parmesan (plus a little lemon juice.)

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That's one of the more exciting points of my month which has largely consisted of headaches and brainfog.

I went to the osteo a few days after ( Read more... )

Mum and I saw in the new year in our living room - which is now so much more comfortable and attractive with its new rug, etc - watching the ever more spectacular Sydney fireworks (seriously amazing this year!) on tv, while I nursed a lousy headache ( Read more... )

Oh, poor Christchurch! I hope all my dad's family are okay with no further damage to their houses ...

(I can't get in touch with them as I have only been asking brother for what phone numbers and addresses he has for ... over a year? Someday, he might remember.)

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Flora dropped in today with her younger son (who used to garden for us) and his wife. ( Read more... )

*yawns* Tea and talk and food and flowers. Good day ( Read more... )

Almost forgot, I bought some Christmas cards yesterday! If anyone would like a Christmas/holiday card, leave a comment with your address here (comments screened) or send me a PM.

To those of you with your own card posts, are you still taking names? I didn't want to ask for cards until I knew if I could send some myself. But I do love getting ( Read more... )

... or at least 40% of me, which would explain why I don't match the pace and bustle of the world around me.

It almost made sense in the context of the conversation, really. Kitt and Rena suggesting that a silk-draped palanquin with muscled bearers to carry me around on sunny day was an image that resonated with their idea of me ... I'm not sure if ( Read more... )

I think I've recovered from my weekend away! Exhausting but it was fun.

Drove up the coast with Pip and two friends of hers from work on Friday. We were staying at the holiday house recently bought by Pip's parents. Now, when I hear 'holiday beach house' I think slightly shabby, rundown old place near the beach. Not an almost new duplex with shining ( Read more... )

I've bought my BDO ticket! MCR FTW!!!

The house is almost at total state of clean, the garden looks good and Mum is home tomorrow!

Flora came to visit for a while today which was lovely - it's always fun to talk to her - and it made me slow down for awhile. Good thing because the dark purple shadows under my eyes this morning were somewhat alarming ( ( Read more... )