Sunday. 18th. Stu spent all afternoon prepping veggies for a spectacular tagine.
Only problem is our tagine is quite small so nothing fitted and he ended up having to resort to saucepans. We had Jenn over for dinner and we all enjoyed it.
Monday. Slept okish. Paperwork for changes and changes. Stu cooked up the mince I cooked on Sunday with some tomatoey goodness and we had that with salad. Beyond Paradise 3.5.
Tuesday. Slept okish.
We tried out Oishii Go at lunch. It was *ok* but the takoyaki didn't have much octopus and both of them were cold, which is really not the way to eat takoyaki or tempura.
Cleaning and changes. They think I broke something, but I'm not so sure, and in the middle of it other stuff broke that I was worried would be me but it wasn't. Stressful afternoon so may have had a beer after work. Stu cooked up some leftover Christmas party sausages, with salad for me and sauerkraut for him. Beyond Paradise 3.6 - end of season 3.
There was supposed to be auroras.
There wasn't.
Not that me or my camera could see anyway.
I did get a hand-held shot of the Southern Cross though
Wednesday. Slightly late night aurora hunting but then woke up early. Plodding my way through DC rules. Leftovers for dinner then watched part 1 of the Last Night at the Proms from 1984.
Thursday. Um. Busy day not achieving much. Went to Yat Bun Tong with Neil and XL - first time since 2019!
Dry fried chilli beef $21.80
Steamed combination buns $17.80 and Pan fried pork dumpling $15.80
Nice drinks. Made a pepperoni pizza and a cheeseburger pizza for dinner. Watched the 2025 Beyond Paradise Christmas special.
Our usual pepperoni and feta pizza above, and a cheeseburger pizza below - tomatoey mince, pickles, and special sauce at the end
Friday. Another busy day not achieving much.
Tried the crispy chicken El Maco at lunch which was quite tasty but a little messy
Got lots done at work between 4 and 6 though when the interruptions stopped. Stu cooked up some couscous and leftover tagine for dinner and we watched Ready Player One.
Saturday. Headed out to the club fairly early for the committee meeting.
I did some cabinetry priming (pretty much done now), a bit of tidying and vacuuming, some tapestry, and just tried to not feel too miserable in the heat. Oh and listened to ABC Classic FM's 50th birthday celebrations all day which was a bit of fun because they mostly played "popular" music.. ie.. crap I'd actually heard of.. so that was good.
At happy hour we went up and got in the pool for a couple of hours which was lovely. Dinner was pretty spectacular and then Chris's trivia which was actually quite reasonable this time.
Had another swim before bed (which was a bit late).
Orion as seen from the club (handheld on the Canon - 24mm, f/4, 0.8 sec, ISO 25600)
Sunday. Woke up at 6:00. Because that's what I do.
Stu rescued this enormous longhorn beetle from the bathroom
Went up to the shed and did some washing up and tidying then we came home. Fairly quiet day doing some holiday thinking and photo stuff.
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