A somewhat disjointed update.
Oct. 2nd, 2010 04:05 pmI seem to have fallen behind on my posting.
Life has been very good.![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
mc_shamo turned 30 last week and we celebrated by spending a night in a suite at the Langham Hotel while gorging ourselves on oysters, champagne, pate, g&t's, scones, cream, pastry and all manner of delights. Then last night we celebrated his birthday again with friends at Mountain Goat Brewery in Richmond. There were lots of people, lots of pizza and lots of beer. A wonderful night, I hope everyone had as much fun as I did!
On the home and hearth front I've been playing with preserves again. A lass from work gave me a bag of lemons from her tree and I used them to make limoncello and lemon cordial. Amusingly, in order to make the limoncello I had to peel the lemons and add the peel to a bottle of strong vodka in a jar. I then had a lot of unpeeled lemons and an empty vodka bottle, so I turned the lemons into cordial and filled the vodka bottle with it. Two weeks later the lemon vodka infusion was ready so I continued making limoncello and poured that into empty soft drink glass bottles. Needless to say I've had to label these very cafefully to avoid mishaps!
I also made my first foray into jelly making after I got a large bunch of mint on special. It turns out that it takes a lot longer than marmalade to set. I thought I'd stuffed it up yesterday morning when it had the consistency of a milkshake, but when I looked at it in the afternoon it was definitely at the mint sauce stage and I was content with that, then this morning I looked again and I had bona fide mint jelly. Tastes really good too.
On Wednesday I went to Andrea's house and she taught me how to make bread. I haven't had a chance to try it on my own yet, but if I wake up and a reasonable hour tomorrow I plan to try it before work.
Last weekcows_might_fly and I went to Penny's gorgeous little place is Hawthorn and helped her shift furniture around to make maximum use of the space and the light. It's a lovely little place and so nice to hear Penny's plans for it, and I can't wait until we own our own home too so we can do that stuff. Penny nicely gave me a jar of strawberry jam she'd made which tasted AMAZING. It was fun to drive there with
Eva too, even if we did get a little lost at the end.
In ten days I'm taking a week off anf going to Adelaide to see
Hannah. I am looking forward to seeing Lucien again as I haven't seen him since he was two, and to meeting Mia, Hannah's baby daughter.
This morning I went tobar_barra and Kerry Greenwood's book launch in Yarraville and bought more books than I intended, but not more than I wanted. I got to see choir people I'd not seen in ages, some not since 2004. It was awesome to catch up with people and to see so many people I knew happy and smiling and living amazing lives.
Life is very good.
Life has been very good.
mc_shamo turned 30 last week and we celebrated by spending a night in a suite at the Langham Hotel while gorging ourselves on oysters, champagne, pate, g&t's, scones, cream, pastry and all manner of delights. Then last night we celebrated his birthday again with friends at Mountain Goat Brewery in Richmond. There were lots of people, lots of pizza and lots of beer. A wonderful night, I hope everyone had as much fun as I did!On the home and hearth front I've been playing with preserves again. A lass from work gave me a bag of lemons from her tree and I used them to make limoncello and lemon cordial. Amusingly, in order to make the limoncello I had to peel the lemons and add the peel to a bottle of strong vodka in a jar. I then had a lot of unpeeled lemons and an empty vodka bottle, so I turned the lemons into cordial and filled the vodka bottle with it. Two weeks later the lemon vodka infusion was ready so I continued making limoncello and poured that into empty soft drink glass bottles. Needless to say I've had to label these very cafefully to avoid mishaps!
I also made my first foray into jelly making after I got a large bunch of mint on special. It turns out that it takes a lot longer than marmalade to set. I thought I'd stuffed it up yesterday morning when it had the consistency of a milkshake, but when I looked at it in the afternoon it was definitely at the mint sauce stage and I was content with that, then this morning I looked again and I had bona fide mint jelly. Tastes really good too.
On Wednesday I went to Andrea's house and she taught me how to make bread. I haven't had a chance to try it on my own yet, but if I wake up and a reasonable hour tomorrow I plan to try it before work.
Last week
cows_might_fly and I went to Penny's gorgeous little place is Hawthorn and helped her shift furniture around to make maximum use of the space and the light. It's a lovely little place and so nice to hear Penny's plans for it, and I can't wait until we own our own home too so we can do that stuff. Penny nicely gave me a jar of strawberry jam she'd made which tasted AMAZING. It was fun to drive there with Eva too, even if we did get a little lost at the end.
In ten days I'm taking a week off anf going to Adelaide to see
Hannah. I am looking forward to seeing Lucien again as I haven't seen him since he was two, and to meeting Mia, Hannah's baby daughter.
This morning I went to
bar_barra and Kerry Greenwood's book launch in Yarraville and bought more books than I intended, but not more than I wanted. I got to see choir people I'd not seen in ages, some not since 2004. It was awesome to catch up with people and to see so many people I knew happy and smiling and living amazing lives.Life is very good.
