I haven’t blogged for the last couple of days (and I miss it). It seems like the silly season has set upon me all at once with 3 Christmas parties and 1 puppy party in a few days. In amongst all of that I have made apricot jam, plum sauce, gingerbread biscuits, spring cleaned a…
Category: My thoughts
I won’t NEVER ever eat a broad bean…..unless
When I was a child Dad grew most of our vegetables in community garden plots by the Tullamarine freeway. Being Dutch (and having lived through a recession in Europe after World War 2) Dad was highly affected in his formative years with a lack of food. This translated into the following sorts of behaviours (some…
Hamming it up for Xmas
I have eaten hams before at Xmas, but they have always been prepared by Mum or Nan. But for the rest of the year, my life passes me by with little ham in it. I have never baked a ham myself, and I certainly don’t understand what all of the fuss about having a ham…
Mixing small children and elderly residents makes sense
I have always thought that we do some things that make no sense in our modern day world. For instance, my grandmother (aka Nan) lives in Shepparton on her own. She is 87, and she has her life and routines, but she is perhaps a bit lonely. I live 2.5 hours away with three children…
Getting re-rooted 