dentist post

It's been a couple of years now since I've visited Dishy Dentist. It's not as though I am actively avoiding it, I actually LOVE going to the dentist, but what with one thing and another I just haven't quite gotten around to it.

While he is utterly lovely and does excellent work, ever since Dishy Dentist became a celebrity dentist and started sending weekly update emails about his television appearances I've been thinking that I might need to seek alternate arrangements. I really can't be doing with a celebrity dentist - he charged like a wounded bull before his stardom [I'm sure I financed a boat and several ponies], I hate to think what his fees are now that he's a tv star.

Don has pointed me in the direction of his lovely dentist who is less than 5 minutes walk up the road.

I'm seeing him tomorrow. Hopefully, given that I have been flossing super-regularly for years, the exercise will not send us to the poorhaus.

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stuffing our faces: w/c 190609 (damn, thought i posted this, but it was sitting in draft)

This is going to have to happen retrospectively, because we have been diverting from the path and it is all too complicated to go back and edit.

Friday:   Porcini mushroom risotto (carried forward from last week)
Saturday:   Dinner out at Nawaz, Flavour of India before heading out to Deerhunter at The Annandale
Sunday:   Harira (from Women's Weekly: The Weekend Cook)
Monday:   Nige's braised oxtail with mustard and mash (p.63 kitchen diaries) (also carried forward from last week)
Tuesday:   Steak, porcini mushroom risotto (leftovers) + baby spinach
Wednesday;   Bangers and mash (dutch cream potatoes are teh awesome for mashing)
Thursday:   Pasta Il Lebbio (pancetta + cream &etc, an invention of our own from when we were in Toscana, named for the lovely place we were staying)

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donandcarol farm

After more than two years, many threats and stern looks, we've finally seen results from Lemony, the lemon tree! Hurrah!


Lemons: we has them!

And they were employed for the ever-brilliant Brigette Hafner's slow-cooked Greek lamb (seriously, if you haven't cooked it yet, you definitely should).

So utterly wonderful to grow something other than spikey herbs and not have it eaten by creatures, although I will say the creatures did give the lemon leaves a good go. Where do they all come from? We're on the 4th floor!! I have more pests now than I did when I had a proper garden.

Once upon a time, I was completely opposed to using chemicals on plants, going forward for anything with soft leaves or fruit I'm really considering a "the more poison, the better" approach.

I have said it before and I'll say it again, when you are growing stuff to eat, The Very Hungry Caterpillar ceases to be an adorable book.

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you can has pretty pictures?

It was a perfectly lovely winters's day today, so I took a walk to the best meat shop in the land, Glenmore Meats (unfortunately, no new Dave shots to be had). Don had to abandon the journey at the foot of the stairs - poor baby was too hungover after his End of Financial Year celebrations.

I also ventured to the bottle shop, the library (to visit the Glebe Art Fair - photography: quite decent, paintings: perfectly revolting & astoundingly overpriced) and picked up the dry cleaning and generally wandered about the neighbourhood and enjoyed it immensely. Of course, I had to take some iphone shots along the way (oh, come on - you'd be disappointed if I didn't include some).

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Spent the afternoon knitting hat for Bessie (and reading some excellent stuff on the internets¹, washing and preparing for yet another flat inspection), after completing Don's green cosy wool circle² (note: not footnote, but actual squared thingy) hat last evening. Bessie's is all variegated pastels (of course!). I bought extra wool at her request, so she might make a matching neck warmer.


My head! Note the USS Independence jumper which rarely leaves my bod in winter-time.

I'm much more pleased with the green cosy wool circle² hat than the misty half anniversary hat (which I'm planning to pull apart and start anew).

I just love this pattern! Particularly the crown, especially now that I am all about the two circular needles, as opposed to the double pointed, which were really unsatisfactory - I utterly failed the jusggling [^TMHarriet]. Think eventually I'll need to branch out into another pattern and mix it up a bit. Have decided that knitted hats look so much more finished and "proper" than crocheted ones.

Tonight am cooking steak, stout and potato pie from the very useful Murdoch Pies &etc cookbook. Was a little unflavoursome to taste, so had to add a smidge of worchestershire sauce (which makes all pies better)

¹ Am really enjoying the Vanity Fair article on Sarah Palin (especially in light of her quitting today - totally scandal or fox gig). So refreshing to be treated like an intelligent reader! I guess I have become way too accustomed to the smh 2 paragraph articles (usually ripped straight from the wire services) that I am delighted by anything that runs over a page. And so very heartening to see journalists write something other than a relentless barrage of lame fluff pieces about masterchef.

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test post from the iPhone

Just what the post title says



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collect them all! just when you thought i'd forgotten

It's been a long time between Dave shots and every so often I'll wander past a truck that I didn't know existed!


Dave: portrait of a sugar daddy.

While finding such a truck is exciting, it is nowhere near as exciting as it will be when I manage to actually track down the pinnacle of Dave-truck-dom.

Although, I'm becoming somewhat concerned that the Best. Truck. Ever. may be retired or otherwise out of commission because I have not seen him since January. Have thought of changing the walking past routine in the event that I am outside his schedule, because, really, he is just that good. I'd even get up early to catch him.

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pinch/punch

A brand new financial year! Yay!

Worked late and am super-tired - my late work involved lots of mindless button pressing and staring at screens, so now I am afflicted with tired eyes and massively foggy brain (which is making me mix up my words and press the wrong buttons on things).

So rather than me just pressing random keys on the keyboard, enjoy some snaps from the walk to work this morning:


Fans on Wentworth Park Road, Glebe


Bark in Wentworth Park (I'm a poet &etc)


Chinese Gardens at Darling Harbour. Pretty!

I'd have to say that being on the lookout for interesting things to take pix of enlivens the walk to the salt mines no end!

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