- Baking - honey and nutmeg cupcakes and mini-tortes from a recipe in the local newspaper; orange & poppy seed cuppies with mango/passionfruit buttercream and chocolate mud cakes.
- Laundry - B & I have been pretty slack at household chores lately and the washing had piled up around us. It's now washed, dried and put away. Hurrah!
- Gardening - the bulbs I planted some months ago have promising leaves and will hopefully flower soonish. Our phaelanopsis orchid is in bud and the first petals are just starting to open. Will post pics when it's at its peak or gorgeousness. I've also got some rosemary and lavender to plant out into the garden and some mint to be put into a larger pot. The bromeliads that we'd almost resigned to the bin but at the last moment decided to repot have rewarded us by recovering and developing beautiful coloured flower spikes. Taureans are meant to have green thumbs, it just took me a bit longer to discover mine than most.
- Playing with Milo and watching him grow day by day. Our kitty has had his babybollocks cut out and a microchip put in, hardly a fair trade-off!
- Fishing - B & I have been out in the boat just about every weekend lately, despite it being colder than a cold thing out on the water. We've competed in a couple of bream tournaments with no success (unless you count catching our full complement of fish but still coming >2kg behind the winners a success). I had my first ever meal of freshly caught fish, which was a wonderful thing. B caught a squire (baby snapper) that was on our plates less than 4 hours later, baked with fennel, butter and lemon. Talk about the hunter-gatherer instinct - he caught our dinner and cooked it too. Keeper or what?
Pics coming soon of the Cakes & More forum Royal Icing Theme Challenge. Having never used RI before, it really is a challenge!
As I was working myself up to get ready for work this afternoon, the phone rang. It was one of my work friends, wanting to know if I'd like to take an annual leave day as the ward was way overstaffed for the late shift. Hmmm, let me think on that for just a second..... see you Monday!
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