Had a bit of an upset night when the effects of such a major change in my diet came back to bite me. At around 1:30 a.m. my digestive system finally rebelled and indulged in some reverse peristalsis. After two sessions calling Hughie I finally crawled into bed and collapsed until the dog woke me … More The Aftermath.
Italian sponge fingers… a half pound of locally made strawberry jam… a quarter of a pint of Armagnac and Muscat… a pint or two of raspberry jelly (couldn’t be bothered with flavouring my own gelatine)… a pint of custard courtesy of Bird’s… a pint of double cream and some caster sugar… a dozen halved maraschino … More A trifle is no trifle!
On the other hand maybe I *do* bring the chaos on myself sometimes…. just occasionally of course. The prime example might be balancing a rather hefty boom box on top of a much smaller bedside clock on Xmas Eve to provide musical accompaniment while packing presents… and then forgetting it’s there when you drift off … More On the other hand…
So I cooked the pork. I’d ordered a leg… but got a shoulder. Couldn’t complain because they closed for the holidays before I found out… yet again the fickle finger of fate pointed at me and laughed it’s socks off. Wiped it down with the lime and garlic infused olive oil, I poked lots of … More My luvs fude me aye!
Right. Things to do… places to go… people to see… food to buy… and a snowman to put up!! Back later! 😀
The eldest, eldest daughter from the UK has a nasty looking infection on her leg. I think she was bitten by something a few days ago. Lord knows what took a bite out of here, there are so many nasties over here it could have been anything. Either way the result was a lump… that … More Chop it off I reckon.
The Phantom has come down with the lurgy. This seems to be a virus slowly spreading around the world since it’s affecting us here as well. Colds, flu and the like are all international illnesses now and what hits one country hits all others within days or weeks. Our infections weren’t helped by the grand-daughter … More Best wishes Phantom!!
After the sojourn to the Ice Rink and saga of the internal squabbling described in the last post, and the fun of finding the pool being wrecked… we finally set out to finish off the shopping and buy ‘little’ stuff. The first thing we bought was totally inessential… but something we both agreed we wanted. … More And so this is Xmas.
We’ve had ‘political’ ructions at the Sydney Ice Arena recently. As said on many occasions, the youngest daughter is a competent little skater and goes to the rink at least three times a week spending three hours or more there each time. It’s a bit of a waste of *my* time since I have to … More Talking of skating…
We went out early to take the youngest to the ice rink for her lesson and to give the coach a small present for Xmas… as you do. We came back to drop her off before setting out to complete the search for presents and such like. We’d not been in for two minutes when … More Say what you like… it *can't* all be me!
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