1. Housework done, a casserole simmering away that will provide quick and easy meals when I’m working late this week, the sun is still shining despite the threat of rain, and enough time to sit and eat lunch with a book. 2. The closest I’ll ever get to gardening. One of the supermarket chains was…
Three years ago tonight, at just about this time, I was sitting in Wellington airport with a storm raging outside, wondering if my weather-delayed flight would be cancelled, and whether I should just give up and ring EdwardStreet to beg a bed for the night. When the wind finally died down enough a couple of…
When I got home from Queenstown on Wednesday, Parsnips came running to the door to greet me, and wouldn’t leave my side for the rest of the day – I think she must have missed me. No sign of Pushkin though. I wasn’t too worried, because she loves the outdoors, and now that the weather…
This weekend was the last of my totally-booked-out weekends of November, and it was the busiest of all (well, apart from the convention weekend, of course). First, on Saturday, after a quick attempt to clean the house, I went into town to meet up with Harvestbird and family for the Climate March. There was a…
Parsnips is currently sitting in the laundry basket. I’m not sure that’s where she intended to be (I suspect she jumped up thinking she’d land on top of the lid (one of her preferred places to sit and watch the world go by), not realising I’d just taken everything out of the basket to put…
o I went and bought fabric for the Birds in Flight quilt yesterday. Just the background fabric, because I’ve decided to use a “scrappy” style for the actual birds (where you use a mixture of similarly coloured fabrics to make up the shape, rather than just one fabric), and I’ve got more than enough in…
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That looks yummy! I’ve never had any other chutney besides plain old “Fruit chutney” from Coles.