Two rats in a hammock

Hanging out with your mate.

The best way to spend your holidays!

(P.S. I have so much free time! It's incredible!)

Milo in his house

Milo sitting on his comfy facecloth rug, looking out of his cardboard house.

I love making houses that rats like to hang out in. So satisfying in that deep warm fuzzy happy way. Like baking cherry pie. Hmmmh.

Not at all like the self-flagellating prickly drudging falutin that is academia. Some of the time anyway. I'm just sayin'!

We made ravioli

From scratch! >_<

Ravioli filling was roasted butternut squash, garlic and pine nuts, and the pasta was made with organic eggs and 35% durum wheat flour for extra bite.

We ate it with sage butter, goats cheese and sage flowers.

It felt like an enormous success, since the previous (and first) time we made ravioli it turned out a flat wet floppy mess, so this attempt was pretty astounding, on a personal as well as tasty level.

(Quietly elated.)

:D

The North Wind Blew South

Such fun to watch, this video by Keith Loutit, on scenes in Sydney made to look miniature.

Milo vs the mites

My bright-eyed boy has been battling some itchy mites for a month now, with a horrible red and scrappy looking sore chin. Tonight we did another dose of the treatment and accompanying mad scrub down of everything, and he looks a little happier, maybe? Fingers crossed everyone for my little Milo!

Bear turns 38

The invitation.



The outcome.



Happy Birthday Bear!

The party was great fun, there were shiny balloons, spelt out candles and ice cream cake, and all our favourite people turned up.

(No, there are no photos of the actual party or the excessive amounts of food.)

(Because I forgot!)

(And was busy cooking all that food, damnit.)

Adrian and Alysha's wedding

A happy happy day!



Gorgeous outfits. Apparently inspired by the very scary clockwork frenchmen Madame Pompadour Dr Who episode. Very very scary episode. Still, they looked great!



There was much excitment amongst the under-10s about the throwing of rose petals. This young man on the left wasn't sure if he was allowed to throw them on the couple so tossed them over himself instead.



We had a great time! Apart from being so genuinely excited and happy for Adrian and Lysh, we also got to catch up with one of Bear's old friends and his very cool wife and kids, including an extremely nice 6 yr old who was great to sit next to and chat about toys and food and all sorts of things. I am so glad I didn't have to make polite small talk with people I didn't know, because I am very unskilled at that. Also, I had had several drinks.

We recovered over Sunday and I almost slept through all of Monday too. Back to work now, but certainly, desperately, a holiday must be in the offing? Soon?