Half the world away

…And half a year I have been in this 'oasis' (I'm really on a pun-roll). How am I doing?...

Well true it has given me enough time to plan my return menu (mum take note):

Breakfast: Bacon on freshly baked baguette

Lunch: Gammon, egg and chips (with pineapple)

Dinner: Toad in the hole (sausage (preferably the Cumberland variety) embedded in one huge Yorkshire pudding, not a French amphibian equivalent of blue cooked food)

… Yes you would be right in thinking I’m still missing good quality British pork. Though when I confessed the desire for that particular supper , Liz is now planning to make it for tomorrows dinner, she is English after all and shares my enjoyment of our national food!

Otherwise my time in Australia is still going well. Still on food, I made my first sweet pie (cherry, raspberry, goji berry, cranberry, blueberry and blackcurrant pie to be precise – canned cherry filling from the English Shop (of imported products)  and the rest were from frozen fruit bags). It was my first attempt at creating pastry and now I realise how easy it is to make (this said after I took the dough out of the mixer and had a hard fight getting it off my hands) I will defer from buying the packet product. See the finished result below… nom nom nom.

mmm...pie

The week itself has been rather docile, work hard, play hard as standard… though experienced a visual trip back to England when I watched Sense and Sensibility with Ralph, Liz and Allie last night. Though it was more a stark reminder as to how much British people have changed since Jane Austen walked our shores…if only people spoke and acted with such eloquent mannerisms in our current day. Though if that also meant I had to wear dresses all the time I may be a bit reluctant to call for the public to return to the 19^th Century. One would like to have a pleasant afternoon stroll amongst the fields though as one enjoyed that particular past-time when one was in the shire… I guess the beach will suffice until my return.

July promises to be very busy with an ‘expected arrival’ in this family, as well as the return of Christian from seminary on holiday and Hannah and Leo will be moving house… busy times indeed so expect a fair amount of blogging then (if I get the time!)

All stations go!