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Who Had One of These ?

 

My sister unearthed this vintage bakelite telephone and it certainly brought back a zillion childhood memories -  mainly of being told to get off the phone as a teenager, night after night after night after night !!! I spent many hours hugging that receiver to my ear talking to best friends and boy friends and then talking again to best friends about boy friends. I recall as a child our phone number began with WU and then changed to all numerals 872668 and then changed again as the population increased to 8742668. It makes me wonder what sort of brain I have if I can recall all those phone numbers from the 1960's and yet don't know my own mobile number !!!

An Impromptu Birthday Cake

Today J turned 24 so Happy Birthday to her. I had about 10 hours notice that I was on birthday cake duty but most of those 10 hours I was at work so I really had no time to concoct an extravaganza. What I did have was a big bucket of Costco cup cake mix so used a couple of cups of that to make one long cake and added lots of dark choc chips, cocoa and cinnamon. Less is not more with birthday cakes so I topped it with whipped cream and M&M's. The candle was a scented one quickly grabbed from my bookshelf !!

Frilly Tulips

My wonderful florist neighbour apeared again this week with floral tributes - two bunches of something amazing.They are pale peach and pale green and shaped like a small tulip but the tightly furled petals are ruffled. Apparently a virus is injected into the bulb to cause the frilly effect. They are delicate and quite incredible . I am sure they are a tulip but must have been flown in from far off lands as it is not the right season here. I wonder what he will appear with next week !! I will bake for him at the weekend  but my offerings have no hope to even come close to equalling these beauties.

Happy Easter

Not too much chocolate has been consumed here today but the day is still young !! If I do succumb I will not feel too bad about it as I went on a 12 km walk with the Cocopop just after breakfast.My walk took me along  some main roads and busy shopping strips and I was surprised to see everything was open ,even supermarkets and newsagents. I am sure this hasn't always been the case but I certainly took advantage of it and bought coffee and hot cross buns as fuel for my long trek.

Good Friday Family Brunch & Cookies

I love to take cookies to friends. They are easy to do and everyone loves to eat them. I made a big batch of jumbo sized choc nut cookies to take to our family Good Friday brunch. The recipe is really an all into the food processor type and the liquid and sweetness comes from a can of sweetened condensed milk, this makes them chewie too, I think. It was hard to stop at one. We also had some wonderful hot cross buns and my mum's fabulous simnel cake with a marzipan layer in the middle and browned marzipan on top.

In my family we don't give chocolate eggs any more since everyone is grown up but we do all love to get together, pets included, and eat and everyone contributes. I took cookies and my home grown basil as shared gifts this year.

 

 

My Sunday Morning

I booked a stall here at this Rotary Trash & Treasure Market today. I got up in the pitch black and cold and sacrificed my Sunday lie in. I headed of with my car loaded to the gunnels hoping my trash would be someone else's treasure. This market was undercover on the ground floor of a high rise car park. It was freezing surrounded by all that cement. There were lots of stalls but not lots of customers. After 4 shivery hours we packed up, calling it quits having made a pathetic total of $50.00. Hence I bought most of my goods back home, realising that my trash really is trash and not a treasure amongst it !!

Happy Birthday Sally

Here she is, happily turning 23 and also happily eating a decadent dessert. It was an icecream sandwich sitting afloat on salted caramel sauce. If you can't do this on your birthday, when can you do it !! Happy Birthday, baby girl !!

Let Sleepy Dogs Lie !!

Our dogs sleep in the family lounge area in their own comfy dog beds. They head there of their own accord at about 1/4 to 9, knowing that at nine-ish I start to shut the house up. Today my girls were wishing they could have the dogs in their beds at night, wishing they could sleep snuggled up to their beloved pets.Then we found these pics online and had a laugh knowing for certain that would be what would happen here !!

Wisdom Teeth, Removal of ...

S is the patient this week after having 4 impacted wisdom teeth out. Her diet has consisted of sloppy foods and the blender has worked overtime. The above photo was a strawberry yoghurt shake which was greatly enjoyed. Other post operative delicacies have included melted ice cream, vitamized rice pudding, thin, runny custard and the salty broth from around Maggi noodles. 

Valentine's Gifts

Not for me !!! But my 2 girls were on the receiving end ! A gorgeous pink box of beautifully handmade and frosted cupcakes was left on the doorstep for S. Sadly for her she was in no way able to appreciate them or even sample one as she had her 4 inpacted wisdom teeth out less than 24 hours prior to their arrival !! So for her, Valentines Day and cupcakes were a low priority !! A, on the other hand, went to a beautiful 5 course dinner and was given an exquisite box of chocolates from a specialist chocolatier, almost too pretty to eat.