tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35771500983333334642024-03-18T18:00:20.841+11:00The Back ShedJackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14052726449827449896noreply@blogger.comBlogger406125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577150098333333464.post-13042787669420184982017-07-05T18:02:00.000+10:002017-07-05T18:02:13.296+10:00What else do you do on a wet day?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Wet and miserable outside this morning and even though I had plenty to do I decided it was a good morning to be in the kitchen. I haven't made Potato and Herb bread for ages and thought it would be perfect with chicken and veg soup for dinner.</div>
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The bread turned out perfect, the photos not so good!</div>
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So nice to have a wood stove again, perfect for cooking soup.</div>
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And to finish up the cooking I used up some over ripe bananas.</div>
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No walk for the little dog today, she hates getting her hair wet. It's all I can do to get her outside to perform the necesseties when it's raining.</div>
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<br />Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14052726449827449896noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577150098333333464.post-24460181251545854782017-06-28T17:15:00.001+10:002017-06-28T17:15:47.922+10:00Down the back<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
A quick walk this afternoon down the back and along the creek. There are no cows in the paddock behind the house at the moment so I thought Machicho would appreciate a walk without her lead. She ran as fast as she could, chased the ducks and had a lovely time in the mud. Needless to say she had a bath when we got home.</div>
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Can you see her in the tree? She had a lovely adventure.</div>
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As we got home the resident family of wrens was heading home, chattering away as they do.</div>
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One of what seems like a million sparrows living in our yard paused before heading off to bed.</div>
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Its winter and fairly regularly on the weekend we are out and about getting wood to keep the woodshed filled. I always take my camera with me, then in the quiet minutes waiting for the next lot of wood to be chainsawed I can take a few photos. The big trick is finding the time to get them onto the computer, edited and posted. </div>
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Since moving home all I seem to do is work and keep up with the house. Very little sewing gets done and after being on a computer most of the week at work, I tend to avoid it on the weekends. I have had a request from my country girl in the city asking for a few photos of the country. Maybe it will make her a little homesick and she'll come home for a visit? </div>
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The preceding photos were taken quite a while ago when we still had sunshine. It is one of the places we go to get wood and has beautiful views down over the valley.</div>
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The following phots are from the last two weekends. It's a new spot we haven't been to for wood before. We've had a couple of weeks where we haven't seen the sunshine as a blanket of fog has settled over us and is very reluctant to leave. Looking out the window right now there is actually some sun but unfortunately I can see it starting to roll in again.</div>
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I've been away from home for a year, living with family,three months at Mogo and 9 months in Lakes Entrance. It's been lovely but a desperate need for my own place and my things around me has led me from the coast back to the mountains. I still intend to live over at the coast but for now I am happy to be home, tidying my house and unpacking a few of my things whether its for a few weeks or a few months. I'll just wait and see what happens next I guess.</div>
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If you know me at all you will know that I love Op Shops and Garage sales. In Lakes Entrance there are 6 Op Shops and Garage sales nearly every weekend. Paradise. July 30th there were two garage sales, one of them at the Church of England. There were lots of tempting goodies one of which was a plastic bag with ''Quilt Tops'' written on it. Talk about waving a red flag at a bull type scenario. Of course that bag came home with me and on opening it I found such a treasure which made me both smile and almost cry.</div>
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Two pieces of a hexagon quilt made from vintage and possibly antique fabrics (this made me smile) and once I had looked at it properly I nearly cried. It was obvious someone had cut a very large quilt into pieces and this was only two parts of it. There was fabric pinned to the back of each piece, although I'm not sure what they had planned for it.</div>
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Looking at the back was scary. No neat folding over the paper, just a piece of fabric dragged over the edges and tacked in place. This was a godsend later on when I had to repair a couple of blocks. Plenty of fabric on the back!</div>
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Then I went through the fabric I have picked up at op shops to find some that would blend in with the quilt. I love vintage fabrics so I had collected a few. I had to make extra blocks for one of the pieces because it wasn't quite as wide as the other one. I unpicked blocks here and there in the quilt to put the new ones in because I couldn't just put them altogether in one side of the quilt.</div>
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I now have a single bed topper which is hand quilted inside each hexagon. I am on the look out for something suitable to bind it. I think there may be the perfect piece of fabric packed away in Corryong so I think it will have to wait for a week or two until I get home.</div>
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My daughter came to visit on the weekend. The weather was perfect and there was lots to do.</div>
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Saturday morning we went to a couple of garage sales and op shopped. We both scored some bargains and treasures. </div>
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We wore Mum's poor old dog out. He struggled the last little bit but he managed to make it back to the car. I haven't taken the dogs to the beach for a while because its been so windy, They don't cope with the sand blowing in their eyes.</div>
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My son and his fur baby came and had dinner with us Saturday night.It was lovely having half of my children here with me, even if it was only for the evening.</div>
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Sunday. Nicky and I, with the dogs headed off to our childhood stomping ground at Corringle for a picnic. I more or less lived there as a child and we took the kids camping there every year for years. Nicky hasn't been there for a long time and it was a good chance to go and revisit old times. It was an absolutely perfect day and so peaceful sitting on the sand opposite the Marlo Jetty.</div>
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I have finally caught up on my Splendid Sampler Blocks. 40 done, only (only?) 60 to go. Oh and if you count them, yes there are Bonus blocks in the mix as well. More information on The Splendid Sampler can be found <a href="http://www.thesplendidsampler.com/">here</a>. Perhaps you would like to join in too?Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14052726449827449896noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577150098333333464.post-22145182933100411242016-07-01T15:55:00.001+10:002016-07-01T15:55:16.237+10:00Finished!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It has been 18 months since I started this quilt and after filing it for over 12 months I finally got around to hand quilting it and getting the binding on. </div>
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It wasn't the warmest day for a walk on the beach yesterday but we braved it.</div>
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After a few days of non stop rain, the dogs and I were feeling a little stir crazy so I threw them in the car and headed off to the beach. Nothing like a walk on a sunny beach to blow the cobwebs away.</div>
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All good, not many people around, no other dogs to upset things. Just a pleasant walk.</div>
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The only trouble was the dogs, well Machicho anyway, decided they were going in to find it and I had a terrible time trying to get her to keep moving up the beach. After about 15 minutes of keeping her moving and calling her back when she made a break for it, I gave up and decided to call it a day.<br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">We have done over 30 Blocks for <span style="color: #660000;"><a href="http://www.thesplendidsampler.com/2016/05/12/block-26-dreaming-of-dresdens/">The Splendid Sampler</a> </span>Quilt so far and a week or so ago we did this sweet little Dresden Plate. (Hope to have a photo of all the Blocks I have done very soon) </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"> Amazing what a little inspiration will lead to. Out came my scraps and a lovely piece of fabric found at an Op Shop and my Scrappy Dresden Plate was born. Top almost done, just need to applique them all onto the background fabric.</span></div>
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Before I can quilt the Dresden Plate Quilt I will finish quilting this one. I completed the top 18 months ago! Time gets away doesn't it? I am about a quarter of the way through the quilting. Now it has turned cold it will be much easier to sit and quilt, as long as I can keep my dog off my knee!!<br />
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This afternoon instead of getting on with the aforementioned quilting, Mum and I went and watched Alice through the Looking Glass. I enjoyed it even though it is probably not the best movie you will ever see.<br />
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We treated ourselves to a very delicious afternoon tea after the movie. Going to have to go for a big walk this afternoon I think.</div>
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It has taken a while but I have finally finished this little quilt. Made from fabric my daughter bought me for my birthday a few years ago. My downfall is always the hand quilting, it takes such a long time but I enjoy doing it and love the way the finished quilt looks.<br />
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I recently had the chance to go and have a look around ''The Mains", a homestead on the outskirts of Corryong built by the Baileys around 1878. Mr Bailey paid for the ticket of a Scottish stonemason to come out to Australia and work off the cost of the ticket by building the house. It is a bit neglected and the gardens have all been removed but you can still see what it would have been like almost 140 years ago.</div>
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Generally there are at least a couple of garage sales on here every Saturday morning and occasionally I pick up something of interest. Today was an extremely successful day, so successful it has got me back on my Blog!</div>
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First garage sale this morning there was more than a little too take my interest.</div>
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The Vintage picnic basket immediately caught my eye and then I started rummaging through a box with some doilies and other bits and pieces in it and decided to make an offer for the lot. The embroidered goodness sitting on top of the box was the next thing to be quickly put on my pile of purchases.</div>
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So I have laid it out on Mum's queen size bed. How amazing is that? Handmade by an Aunt of the lady running the garage sale. I don't know how she could part with it. After a very short discussion between family members it was decided that $40 was a fair price to charge for this. I did promise it would be well looked after.</div>
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Vintage bits, tablecloths, tea cosy , crocheted lavender bags...........</div>
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Lots and lots of embroidered tablecloths, tray cloths, doilies, runners and more!!</div>
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A very old lace petticoat and a linen bag.</div>
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Tablecloths and doilies that haven't been embroidered yet or only partially done. I wouldn't even try to guess how old some of them are. Also a box of threads to go with them.</div>
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<br />Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14052726449827449896noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577150098333333464.post-31880929327182037462015-05-30T12:34:00.003+10:002015-05-30T12:34:59.455+10:00For Caitlin<span style="font-family: inherit;">Finding the time to post on the Back Shed seems a little hard these days. Usually Nicky asks me when I'm going to put something on here but this time it was my friend Caitlin who says:<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">I need some more pictures and stories of back home! ItÅ› all just red dry dust, clear blue skies, hot days and wallaby tracks up here!</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">So here you go Caitlin..</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">.....................................................</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have been trying to remember what has been happening since I last posted. I spent Easter at Lakes Entrance with family. There was far too much going on to take too many photos, we had a lovely time. I think life was pretty much routine for the rest of April. </span></span><br />
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Not so happy news first. Sadly Rev passed away at the beginning of May. He put up a mighty battle against his failing heart but eventually it was just too hard for him. </div>
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A couple of the last few photos of Rev.. Really miss our sweet old man. </div>
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In the garden the struggle for life goes on. I managed to catch this praying mantis eating a cricket.</div>
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I really haven't been taking too many photos in the last month or so, just too busy or lethargic, take your pick. Anyway I have gone out this morning and taken a few just for Caitlin.</div>
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We cleaned the wood shed out this week, piled up all the rubbish we raked out of the shed and Dave has a fire burning out in the paddock. There have been quite a few days going out and getting wood to keep the fires burning so we can keep the cold at bay. I've even learnt how to use the wood splitter. Lots of soup being made on the combustion stove already, Pea and Ham is becoming a favourite. </div>
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Missing the hills, Caitlin??</div>
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Only another day or so and Autumn will be over. The Japanese Maple has put on a beautiful show for us again this year. I will have to go out and rake leaves at some stage I guess but at the moment they look pretty on the lawn. </div>
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The garden out the side of the house is well and truly established. More leaves to clean up out here as well. It is a favourite spot to sit and share a pot of tea on warmer days. </div>
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I hope that satisfies your need for green and hills and everything you don't have where you are now Caitlin. Missing you too. x</div>
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Lots happening here at the moment. Last weekend I painted the bathroom and gave it a bit of a tidy up. It was so nice to have an extra day to get things done. </div>
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This week we have jumped on the current trend of creating pallet gardens. I was in charge of design and my son David was in charge of creating the picture I had in my head. This is the first one, planted with Primulas.</div>
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When I came home from work yesterday there was another one completed all ready to be painted and planted. Lots more shelves this time for all my rusty bits. I am really loving how they turned out and they look wonderful against my rusty tin fence. </div>
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Outside the house there are four helicopters taking off from the airport, fighting the fires at Tom Groggin. We have had them flying over for a week now. It is really hard to get a photo with all the smoke around at the moment.</div>
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As usual Fred was right on hand to help me take the photos although he is looking just a little bit grumpy. </div>
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The other bit of creating happened today. I always look at the amazing recipes in Country Style magazine and think to my self that I really should try some of them. Today I finally got around to dragging out one of the latest magazines and trying out a recipe that looked really good. Potato, Rosemary and Onion Bread which I was a little bit hesitant about making because handmade bread usually turns out like a rock for me. It turned out beautifully. We had an amazing dinner tonight. </div>
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Found this little fella just hanging around yesterday evening. Wasn't really looking for him, I'd gone outside to try and get some photos of the sunset. So many amazing cloud formations happening.</div>
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All taken within a half an hour or so. There are lots more but I think you probably get the idea.</div>
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Regular readers will have woken up to the fact a long time ago that I get a lot of pleasure from my garden. A garden will stimulate all the senses everyday, whether it the sound of a bird in song, splashes of colour among the foliage, the heady scent of roses and the Port Wine Magnolia on the evening breeze, the bite of the first tomato warmed by the sun and the feel of warm earth or the softness of a petal.</div>
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I planted Buddleias along the side of the house which have grown very quickly and are a constant source of new and amazing things. </div>
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Last Summer I was overwhelmed with the many different butterflies, insects and birds they attracted and spent many hours just watching them coming and going collecting nectar from the flowers.</div>
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Just when I thought I had seen pretty much every insect that could possibly be attracted to the Buddleia flowers a new one has appeared. It was a very strange creature and quite large as insects go and I immediately had to Google it and see what it was. </div>
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So these strange creatures are a Clear wing Hummingbird Moth and if you look closely they do look just like a Hummingbird. Amazing what you find.</div>
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Last night it was very noisy out there so I headed out to see what was going on.. It was really hard to see what was buzzing around in the dark so I grabbed my camera living in hope that a photo just might turn out ok.</div>
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Lucky for me my camera came through with flying colours and the source of all that buzzing was revealed.</div>
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Remember these little bees from last year? They are back into the Lavender again.</div>
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I ducked into the Op Shop today and found treasure of another kind, I nearly passed it by because all I could see were the orange flowers in among a lot of linen. </div>
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I heard a very ugly bird cry outside a minute ago and was excited to realise that the Dollar Birds were back for the Summer. They have been coming here for many years now but for some reason didn't turn up last year. <a href="http://www.graemechapman.com.au/library/viewphotos.php?c=655">More information here</a> if you want to know what they are.<br />
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Quickly getting back to reptiles, there are quite a few Blue tongued lizards in the yard as well. Three of them are quite large. The Brown snake we had here took up residence for a few days near where one of the big lizards live. I have stopped believing the story that Blue tongued lizards keep snakes away. Pity it's not true!</div>
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And the Op Shop has provided doileys and cottons for more creations sometime in the future.</div>
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Yes I know I have been quiet but life as usual just seems to get in the way of sitting and updating the Back Shed. I have had a quick trip over to Lakes Entrance in the past fortnight and it was lovely. So much warmer over there. About once or twice over the Winter we might get a dusting of snow on the hills around the town. This year it is slightly more than a dusting. I got up a couple of Fridays ago to get ready for work and out of every window I could see snow. It was a bit of a worry not knowing if I would be driving through any of it to get to work. Anyway..........I grabbed my camera and took some photos. T'was a little bit chilly out there in my dressing gown and slippers but a hot shower soon warmed me up.</div>
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There was snow on the hills nearly all the way to work but none on the road thank goodness.<br />
Friday afternoon it happened again and I drove home in a Winter wonderland. There must be something about Fridays. I am really looking forward to Spring and a bit warmer weather.<br />
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<a href="http://oneearlybird.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/what-would-you-like-to-do-on-craft.html" style="font-family: inherit;">One Early Bird</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> is planning a Craft Getaway in the Upper Murray where we live. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">The first Craft Getaway Weekend is planned for 19th, 20th & 21st of September (Friday night arrival to Sunday afternoon) and bookings will open on the 10th of August. Michelle has a .<a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DMKY8LN">Survey</a> just to get an idea of what should be offered over the weekend. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">Plus one lucky person who leaves their email address on the survey by August 10th will get a little crafty gift made by Michelle. Anyone interested should jump on board because this is one very talented lady.</span><br />
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With wet and bedraggled parrots still hunting for acorns.</div>
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And yes, it is as cold as it looks.</div>
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<br />Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14052726449827449896noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577150098333333464.post-52112206226632344972014-06-29T11:35:00.001+10:002014-06-29T11:44:42.837+10:00It's just a step to the left............Sometime in the past year I introduced my daughter to The Rocky Horror Picture Show for the very first time. How she had managed to get to her late 20's without ever seeing it is beyond me but it happens I guess. About a month ago I got an email from her asking me if I wanted to go and see the stage show, her shout for my Mother's Day and Birthday present. Well I couldn't knock back an offer like that, could I? So after a bit of arranging and rearranging I finished work early Friday week ago and headed off to Melbourne with my youngest son, Beau.<br />
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It was an amazing weekend of good food, lots of wine and plenty of laughter. Nick's housemate had her Mum visiting too so it was a really lovely girls weekend.</div>
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Of course the highlight of the weekend was going to see this with Nicky. </div>
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It has been years since I have been to Melbourne but now that Nicky lives there I may be visiting a little more often. Well, as long as I can get someone to drive me there that is. Far too much traffic for this country girl to negotiate but as long as Beau has his girlfriend to visit I should be able to get a lift now and then.</div>
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Sunday night I stayed at Beau's in Tallangatta so I didn't have to travel to work on the Monday and finally home Monday afternoon. My little dog was very happy to see her Mum home but not impressed that I headed off to Carpet Bowls that night. With meetings and work during the week I have barely been home long enough to do a bit of washing.</div>
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I have made some amazing flat bread from a recipe I found at Nicky's and next time I make it I will throw in some Rosemary and sea salt cause I think that will be so much nicer. I whipped up a batch of Hummus from the Chick peas Nick gave me as well, although hers is much nicer than mine. I will have to find out what she changed in the recipe. So a very productive weekend for me so far. All that is left to do is write a short report for my volunteer position boss and go help a friend out with her computer problems, too easy. Another busy week ahead for me but hopefully I am on top of things for a little while.</div>
<br />Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14052726449827449896noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577150098333333464.post-38402119523727624052014-05-31T17:24:00.002+10:002014-05-31T17:24:58.730+10:00If you're in the mood.....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
When I had lunch boxes to fill and constantly hungry children, baking was a weekly event. Now days I have to be in the mood to bake. On Wednesday I decided that I needed to put something in the lovely big glass jar I recently bought and Chocolate Chip cookies seemed appropriate. </div>
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It was such a miserable day I decided that a steak and veg pie would be very nice for our dinner. Having no ready made puff pastry sheets in the freezer didn't stop me, I was in a baking mood remember. I found a recipe and made my own. I was really happy with my made from scratch pie. </div>
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