We have also been saddened this week by the sudden death of my sister’s cat Baubles. Having lost our cat Ruby in tragic circumstances a number of years ago and knowing just how much we love our two furry babies now, I can imagine just how devastating this loss has been to my sister. […]
These photos are from a family breaky last Sunday at my parents’ home. There was plenty of fruit, which was great for Jac as she is still eating a low-fat diet as she awaits her surgery (due to take place on Tuesday). Mum and Dad made a big batch of donuts using their donut maker, […]
***EDIT: Click to read my eldest sister’s eulogy for Mama. Thank you, everyone, for your kind comments and emails. I have new food photos to post and hope to do so shortly.*** I held off posting as soon as Mum rang in case other family members who read this blog hadn’t heard yet. My grandma […]
It’s Jac’s birthday today! We started the celebrations with dinner at her mum’s last night. Jac requested her favourite meal of cold meat and salad (she requested cold meat and salad last year too!), and so that’s exactly what we had, after starting on an assortment of cheeses with rice crackers: Jac’s mum went to [&he…
On New Year’s Day, Jac and VR came home from Dunsborough. I’d enjoyed my time alone but I’d really missed Jac, so I was chuffed to see them. That evening Jac and I went to my folks’ for dinner (VR was invited but was too tired and I suspect, rather ooged out from all the […]
Boxing Day Breakfast The next morning, brother B drove to the bakery and picked up fresh bread rolls so we could have bacon and egg rolls for breakfast. He cooked the bacon on the new portable gas stove he got for Christmas from Jac’s mum. Many rounds of bacon were fried on that little stove. […]
I’ve uploaded 293 photos to a Flickr set called Xmas in Dunsborough, 2006. Friends and family can see lots of people photos there. Everyone else can see food, animal and landscape shots. These next few posts about Christmas at Dunsborough will feature selected shots from that set. We left for Dunsborough early on Christmas morning, […]
Sweets After the main course, Mum thought it would be good to go for a walk before dessert, and so there was a mass exodus as almost everyone took off down the street. I stayed behind to hang out with Grandma (I’d already exercised for 45 minutes in the morning, so I figured it was […]
Main course While the meat was resting before carving, Juji got busy making gravy with the pan juices. A had made her special stuffing, which was oven-baked in its own dish, not in the turkey. We were all hanging out for the carving! My brother had bought an enormous ham from the butcher, which […]
Hey everyone! Hope you all had a lovely Christmas. It’s taken me ages to sort through/process/upload all the photos. Just as well I’m still on holiday, eh? Tomorrow I plan to go shopping, but on Sunday I’ll be getting reacquainted with my thesis. Ugh. But let’s forget about that for the next half dozen or […]