Last weekend we did a few things around the house. I did some gardening and Tim got on the roof to clean the gutters and check the condition of the roof.
He took some photos of our garden and our surrounds while he was up there.
As you can see, from up here, there’s a lot of [...]

Just because I can’t resist, here are some more photos of our lovely Smokey boy.

Well, if you read my last post dated 19 March, you will know I mentioned that a move to Tasmania was coming up. Although we hadn’t planned to move to Tasmania so soon (we were going to leave it for a 2 or 3 years before moving down), I decided to move so that I [...]

Well bad news for the super huge silver ring that I bought a couple of weeks ago. I went to 4 jewellers and not one of them is willing to resize my ring! They won’t touch it with a 9 foot pole! Apparently the setting at the top is so wide and chunky that if [...]

Tim made chicken pie last night. Its one of his specialties.

Here’s the ingredients:

1 pre-cooked BBQ chicken
2 leaks
1 stick celery
200g mushrooms
1 large carrot
1 cup liquid chicken stock
2 tablespoons flour
Salt and pepper to taste
2 sheets filo pastry
1 egg (to glaze pastry)

This is enough ingredients to make 2 pies approximately 25cm in diameter.
Slice the leeks, carrot, celery and [...]