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Menu plan 21 July 08

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Well, school holidays, traveling and getting sick (and I’m still not well damn it!) have meant I haven’t cooked properly in waaay too long. It’s got to the point where I’m positively craving ordinary food 😛 We did have a pretty awesome lunch on Saturday though, I bought fresh bread rolls, tiger prawns, oysters and some salads and we sat on the front deck in the sun with a bottle of bubbly. ‘Twas nice 🙂 Here’s the plan for the week ahead: MondayOven baked crumbed chicken, corn on the cob, carrots and broccoliFruit & yoghurtTuesdayBeef goulash, noodles & steamed vegFruit … Continue reading Menu plan 21 July 08

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Now for some photos

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We arrived in Brisbane on Friday evening to be greeted by Adam’s long lost twin brother…or maybe it was Joe, fellow Browncoat, organiser of shindigs and generally evil guy. When Joe was heading home on Sunday evening there was a brief “this jacket feels strangely wrong” incident 🙂 I don’t have many photos from Saturday at Abbey, but Adam did take a fair few of us playing around at the archery range which was being run by the Companye of Northumbria. Here we have Caitlin in her very non-authentic outfit, it’s a miracle that skirt stayed up all day, good … Continue reading Now for some photos

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Queensland dispatches

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I’m posting from Brisbane, we’ve just spent two days at Abbey Medieval Festival. We’re happy, tired and broke. And the kids are trying to kill each other. Fun times. Somehow or other, despite Dave, Tom and I all having the horrible lurgi all week we managed to get all the post-Winterfest laundry done (all right, Adam did the laundry) and get ourselves packed up and ready to head off to Queensland on Friday morning. We were on the road at 6:30am, Adam did the driving, I was no use drugged up on Codral and snoozing most of the way. A … Continue reading Queensland dispatches

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What we did at Winterfest

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After a frantic week of shoe making, cloak hemming and costume tweaking we were more or less ready for our first whole family participation in a Huscarls camp. This was a paid gig for the group and our job was to come along, look authentic, talk to the public and have fun. I think we managed to meet all those criteria fairly well. We arrived at about 8:00am after stopping off to pick up firewood at the servo. Helped with the last bits of setting up camp, fortified ourselves with bacon and egg rolls, mini Dutch pancakes, hot chocolates and … Continue reading What we did at Winterfest

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Menu plan 23 June 08

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Haven’t done one of these in a while and the lack has been showing up very clearly in our grocery budget and our eating out/takeaway budget – oops! Time to get back on track. MondayOven fish and chipsFruit & yoghurtTuesdayBangers and mashFruit & yoghurtWednesdayBaked dinner – leg of lambRice puddingThursdayChicken Korma curry & riceFruit & yoghurtFridayBBQ ribs, corn, jacket potato and saladIce cream & fruitSaturdaySteak sandwiches and chipsFruit & yoghurtSundayHam and cheese pasta bakeIce cream & fruit Continue reading Menu plan 23 June 08

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Menu plan 26 May 08

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Last week in review: Monday and Tuesday happened as planned, Wednesday’s fish morphed into Chinese takeaway (thanks Dad for going to pick it up, nothing like being invited over for dinner and then having to bring it with you), Thursday ended up being reheated beef bourguignon instead of the chicken casserole, David refused to eat the shepherds pie on Friday, we had homemade pizza on Saturday and last night we went out for teppanyaki at Fujiya in Gordon and it was good. I’m getting heartily sick of being bombarded with interrogations about “what’s for dessert?” before I’m anywhere near finishing … Continue reading Menu plan 26 May 08

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Adam and I had been trying to think of things to do with the kids…

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…and then I followed a link on Blue milk’s blog to Gever Tulley giving a brief talk on the topic of 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do. Now we’re positively full of ideas! http://static.videoegg.com/ted/flash/loader.swf I emailed the link to the video to Adam and he replied thusly: Perhaps we could do all at the same time, I have an old laptop. We couldgive them a pocket knife they could use it to disassemble the laptop whileit is on fire and ripping music, in the passenger seat of the MPV….. See? Fun for all the family 🙂 Seriously … Continue reading Adam and I had been trying to think of things to do with the kids…

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Menu plan 19 May 08

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I keep writing these things and then half the time deciding that I don’t really want what I have planned for that night. Still, I’m cooking more than I was and there’s often something in the freezer I can reheat on the days when wrestling with the kitchen seems too much like hard work. MondayLamb cutlets, noodles & steamed vegFruit & yogurtTuesdayCorned beef, onion sauce & steamed vegFruit & yogurtWednesdayGrilled fish, oven wedges & saladRice puddingThursdayChicken and leek casserole with riceFruit & yoghurtFridayShepherds pieIce cream & fruitSaturdayBBQ seafood and stir fry vegApple crumble & custardSundayMango chicken curry & riceFruit & … Continue reading Menu plan 19 May 08

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Link-fest No. 3

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John Scalzi has a shareware short story available for download: “How I Proposed to My Wife: An Alien Sex Story” You can download it for free then, if you like it, send money! Jay’s Conversations with Patients make me laugh. Blue milk on the fact that maternity leave is not a holiday. California Supreme court overturns gay marriage ban. “The California Supreme Court ruled today that same-sex couples should be permitted to marry, rejecting state marriage laws as discriminatory.” Now, if only we could follow suit here in Australia. I discovered the Carnival of Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy Fans … Continue reading Link-fest No. 3

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Menu plan 5 May 08

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Sleep? Who needs sleep when there’s a new Dr Who episode to watch. Yeah, I should have been in bed 3 hours ago but I had stuff to do for the mothers day craft stall and then Adam came out with his laptop with the new ep and well, here we still are. At least I’ve manged to do something else useful at the same time! MondayTacos & saladFruit saladTuesdayOven fish & chipsFruit and yoghurtWednesdayVeal casseroleStewed fruit and custardThursdayButter chicken and riceFruit & yoghurtFridayBBQ steak etc – not that I’ll be here for this one. Instead I’ll be at the … Continue reading Menu plan 5 May 08