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This morning I brought the dogs home from the kennels where they stayed for Christmas while we drove long highways and visited friends and family in the city. The dogs are exhausted and have slept since they arrived home. Seems they had a good Christmas without us.
We're much the same. It's after midday so a nap is in order :) -
Happy Christmas everyone!
I arrived home last night from a week's work in the Kimberleys; I got plenty of work done and enjoyed myself too. We gave ourselves a Christmas treat of an afternoon's sightseeing around Kununurra yesterday. It's the wet season up there and everything's green and lush. Lovely! There was a cyclone blowing when I was in Broome so it was bare feet ( Read more... ) -
Saturday
I'm in a tropical town for the day. It's so different from my cool home town that I'm amazed every time I come here ( Read more... ) -
some things:
Thing 1. This morning there was a tiny baby preying mantis on my bathroom curtain, trying to look like a twig. I put him out in the garden.
Thing 2. Today I'm driving up to Perth to catch the afternoon flight to Broome to do some work, and there's a cyclone warning just north of Broome. Yike ( Read more... ) -
pretty cute I reckon - thanks Verlinda!
On the twelfth day of Christmas, ( Read more... ) -
recipe for chimichurri sauce
Chimichurri sauce
Ingredients (serves 4)
1 cup flat leaf parsley leaves
2 tbsp garlic roughly chopped
¼ cup vinegar
Juice of a lime
1 small onion chopped
1 red chilli, roughly chopped or to taste
½ red capsicum, roughly chopped
Salt andf freshly ground black pepper
1 small tomato, roughly chopped
2 tbsp oregano leaves
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Your dresses
Sweet, like that perfume we gave you that you took a liking to. Soft, like baby powder; soft cheeks, love in your eyes, often with a tear of love and pride in us ( Read more... ) -
woo hoo hot stuff!
We just ate the hottest spiciest sauce you could imagine - I got the recipe from the back of today's paper and it contains all our favourite things: garlic, parsley (out of the garden of course), chilli, capsicum, lime and some other bits and pieces. Oh my - my mouth is so hot and my nose's running. I think I was a bit greedy ( Read more... ) -
oh lovey dovey
It's Tuesday afternoon and I've got a week off work so I'm home in our lovely little house doing nothing much. My husband's home on holidays too ( Read more... ) -
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It was the most amazingly beautiful perfect spring day today. I vote today as the best-weather day of the year ( Read more... )