My youngest has been going to Tae-Kwon-Do for the past two and a half years. Always on the same two afternoons… Tues and Fri. Three times this year already she’s forgotten her outfit and has been warned if she forgets it again she’ll lose the opportunity to move up a grade at the end of … More What is it with kids?

Maybe not a disaster but I *have* had a bit of a setback. I succumbed to the lure some of some of my cooking and had two bowls of a delicious casserole with a dollop of parmesan mashed potatoes on the side… a large dollop! Today I was *really* struggling with the hypoglycaemia and ended … More Diet disaster?

Both oldies had fillings this morning… but no dramas for a change. However… roll on Friday when the old man has the remainder of his extractions… *then* we’ll hear it again! But at least it’ll be over… for now… unless he has more fillings 🙂

When it comes to selecting cookbooks, I tend to avoid celebrity chefs. I find they tend towards the artistic ‘clever’ kind of cooking instead of the ‘stick to your ribs’, everyday foods the rest of us eat. However, after some prevarication, I did buy the 1989 revision of Delia Smiths’s classic ‘Complete Cookery Course’… posibly … More The naked chef revisited.

My reaction to different types of music quite often surprises me. An example is the ‘country and western’ stuff put together by the late John Denver. For reasons I still don;t understand it really gets to me. My favourite quip is that his music makes me homesick for places I’ve never been… yet it’s actually … More Music hath charms…

The old man makes his second call on the dentist today. This time it’s ‘just’ for fuillings so we’re hoping he’ll come back full of the joys of spring… so to speak as we’re slowly slipping into autumn. It’s Friday we’re looking forward to when he has the last extractions. He’s bearing up really well … More More dentist today 🙂

No not mispelled… it’s what I think would be the best name for the suburban transport system near us. Times of the buses are pretty crap to begin with… probably because next to nobody wants to use them… but they took a further nosedive this week with the introduction of the new timetables for ‘Busways’ … More Pubic transport.

The old man has finally decided he *is* going to try to stay on over here so rang a Migration Agent to discuss the pros and cons of any ways they could suggest. After some hiccoughs and some false starts we finally ‘made contact’… well *I* did anyway… the old man was still in the … More Migration blues.

Had a hankering for decent pickled onions… but it’s either the wrong time of year or the stores have decided not to stock them… either way I thought I’d try pickling shallots for a change. Never tried pickled shallots… no idea how they’ll turn out… but what the hell 🙂 I’ve made up a pickle … More Pickled Shallots?

Loads going on next Sunday for the 75th Aniiversary of the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. To commemorate the day the bridge is going to be closed for the day to allow the public… i.e. ‘us’ to walk along the actual roadway. We boked in to do the walk in the late afternoon, around … More We're going on the bridge walk!