Twenty years ago today I took these photos of a rainbow over the eastern suburbs (possibly over the Optus data centre at Rosebery, not sure).

Monday.  26th.  Backdating.  Frustration and grumpiness at work *all day*.  Finished up day 25 labelling (which I should have done on the weekend).  In the end labelled 261 photos in the evening, so mostly caught up to where I wanted to be.

Tuesday.  Not much better day than Monday.  Ended up worse, and feeling depressed cause I suck and noone likes me.  Had leftover pasta bake for dinner (and got a yuk taste of anchovies).  Backed up my computer but didn't do any photo labelling.  Did jigsaw and played 2048 for the first time in a couple of years.  Even got up to 4096.

Wednesday.  Woke up at 3:23 and never got back to sleep.  So it was a zombie day.  Couldn't really concentrate on anything, not helped by people interrupting every five seconds.  Doc Oc pizzas and wine for dinner.  Started watching Queen: Days of Our Lives (2011).

Thursday.  Slept quite a bit better (went to bed at 20:30), other than being awake for an hour or two in the middle of the night cause of hurty.  In what world is a monthly cycle 21 days???  FFS.  Ok day.  Mulled wine at drinks for a Christmas in July night.

Then met up with EffanC and R&F at Hachiko for dinner which was lovely.

It was a lovely night and a great reminder that I do have some pretty great friends.

Friday.  Ok day.  Knocked off work a little early but then spent the evening prepping for tomorrow - for the club Christmas in July.  Struggled to get onto the butcher to order the pork - firstly couldn't find a phone number online, ended up having to resort to Yellow Pages.  But then they wouldn't answer the phone :(  Then I started stressing about fitting CRD into the car with all the foods and gear.  Sigh.  Finished the first episode of Queen: Days of Our Lives, and started episode two.  

My little patch of floriade is sprouting!

Saturday.  Headed out early and did the shopping for dinner.  Finished the Coles shop quite quickly, then headed back to the butcher.  Turns out their phone handset was broken which is why they weren't answering.  Luckily was able to get enough pork.  Then picked up CRD and headed out to the club.  Set everything up and took a photo of all the food.

First up was getting the lamb ready and into the slow cooker.  I'd never done lamb like this in the slow cooker so had no idea how it would turn out.  It actually turned out really well - lovely and moist.  

I had to wash pretty much everything before I started.  All the cooking gear was covered in white dust.  And I literally had to leave the kitchen a couple of times while other people wandered in and started fussing around and washing things up.  I actually can't concentrate with people buzzing about, super stressful.

Then I prepped all the pork - just oil and salt.

Then made a couple of epic potato bakes.

I also made up a sweet potato salad, and some lactose-free roast potatoes

The oven is the slowest oven in the world, so I probably should have left the foil off a lot longer on the potatoes

I delegated making the roast turkeys in the bbq.  So we had a bain-marie full of pork, the slow cooker full of lamb, and another bain-marie with the turkey.  The pork and lamb turned out beautifully, but the crackling didn't work so well (slowest oven in the world) and the turkey was over done on the bottom (really need a better way to do it than on the barbeque).

I also made a big batch of gravy, and a pot of apple sauce

There was also a big pot of peas/corn/carrots.

Had a couple of helpers to serve it all up.  It was quite well received .. phew!!

Chris brought these great little puddings

And Tab brought puddings and pavlovas and fruit and ice cream.

Then there were some very noisy games so I went and hid because it was all too loud.  Later went out and had some whiskey and rum in the sun room.  This whiskey smelt like peanut butter and tasted like butterscotch schnapps.  Yum!  And the Master Mary rum tasted like Christmas.

Then loud people came out, so I went to bed.

Sadly after really concentrating on the food all afternoon and evening, I really didn't feel like I caught up properly with anyone.  I actually only sat down at the table for a few minutes to scoff my dinner.

Sunday.  Slept relatively well.  Went up to finish cleaning up and packing up.  Found out the cause of all the white powder around the kitchen - mice had been getting into the corn flour and tracking it all around.  I even saw a couple of mice running around the shelves.  I threw out anything that had mouse holes, which was all the corn flour and some of the regular flour.  Anything open but with no evidence of mouse activity I brought home to reassess.  And anything unopened and still sealed with no holes I put into a sealable plastic container. 

They pulled the pergola down while I was cooking on Saturday 

Then came home after dropping off CRD.  But it was still nearly lunch time by the time we got home, and I was my usual Sunday-after-a-club-event-depressed because of the lack of time at home on the weekend.  I did manage to clean out a shelf in the pantry and water change all the downstairs fish tanks and download photos, but not blog.  Used up some of the mince I cooked last weekend with some One Pan Dinner.  

Sunday.  18th.  Backdating.  Lamb roast for dinner.  With epic leftovers.

Monday.  Spent some time trying to get caught up with all the stuff that got dropped last week because of all the disasters.  Saw my birds at lunch which was nice.  From 5pm spent some more time working on last week's issue.  Stu was home late as well.  Finished some leftover pork for dinner and The Simpsons, but then it was only half an hour before I had to log back on to do even more work.  So no photo labelling.  

Tuesday.  Woke up at 4am to pee but never got back to sleep.  Sigh.  Managed to rescan half a dozen slides, but not the dusting and vacuuming.  Zombie day all day.  Certainly didn't feel up to any photo labelling.

Wednesday.  Even though I was zombie tired I still took an hour to get to sleep.  But slept through til 5:30 (helped by being a bit dehydrated).  Ok day.  Managed about 90 photos labelled, so a nearly a week behind now.

Thursday.  Accidentally knocked this off my desk while I was dusting and it smashed everywhere.  George gave me this years and years ago - it was sort of like a thermometer where the warmer it got the further through the piping the liquid would go.  

Ok day.  Fairly slow morning but crazy afternoon.  Dumb episode of the X Files (Ascension).  Dumb issues, like the guy had an all night head start, but they got caught up with him pretty quickly.  Or like a cable car operator being able to control the speed of the car, rather than from the terminals.  Is that even a thing?  Or being able to infinitely zoom and enhance low res pics (a pet peeve of mine).  Although it was cool to see Gillian Anderson's actual pregnant belly.

Friday.  Had a random day off which was pretty amazing.  Did all my usual "Saturday" morning stuff.  Then attacked some unpleasant stuff - organising a heater service, someone to look at the leaky shower, etc.  After lunch spent a couple of hours tidying up the garage and organising stuff to get rid of.  Fried leftover pizza for dinner, the Simpsons, and then we watched Nanette (CRD had invited us to she Hannah Gadsby's show Saturday night, but Stu had his first covid jab on Friday and we didn't want to commit).  

Saturday.  Woke up at ~3am, but didn't get back to sleep for ~2 hours :(  Slept in til 7:20 and a very slow start.  This is Dumbo progress as of Saturday morning.

This is showing how I cheat by doing one half atop the other.

Didn't get much else done in the morning.  Stu was tired too from his jab.  But we did head out - got some lunch, dumped some stuff at Lifeline and Green Shed, and did some food shopping.  But we went to Coles at Gungahlin so everything is a different place and it was super crowded and it was a pretty horrible experience.  Came home and pretty much just collapsed in a heap and didn't really get much else done all day.  Watched the last episode of Diagnosis and did a bit of photo labelling.  Watched Wild with the sweetie, based on a true story about Cheryl Strayed hiking the Pacific Crest Trail.  Even a few been-theres.

Sunday.  Slept ok for a change.  Cleaned the shower and tidied the house in the morning.  Managed to get Dad's day 25 photos labelled and a fish tank water change done. 

Mid Sunday jigsaw progress

From 3pm it was cooking non-stop for three hours.  Cooked up a kilo of mince with bacon, onion and garlic.  And made a peppermint slice.  And a penne arribbiata bake.  Listened to Fantasia 2000 soundtrack.  Twice. 

In the evening felt like watching something fun, so we watched an episode of the new season of The Movies that Made us - this one on Jurassic Park.  Stu said he liked the content but not the silly way it was presented.  Oh well.  Also how good are TED-Ed talks - suits my attention span (five minutes haha).

Twenty years ago today I took these photos of a couple of my wooden dinosaur skeletons.  Pretty sure this was at the beginning of the collecting, so there'll be more pics of these in coming years ;)  I actually collected quite a lot of them, but they've been packed up since I moved to Canberra and have been in a box ever since :(

Thirty years ago today my brother took these photos of Sydney city from Kings Cross somewhere (maybe the ABC building??).  Sydney Tower looks so alone in these photos, it'd be totally surround by other tall buildings now.

Sunday.  11th.  I actually blogged on time last week I think but a bit early for the evening.  Did a spaghetti rosa bake for dinner but I'll put that it its own post.  Turned out pretty well.  Then Simpsons and X Files and I might have watched Fantasia 2000 again.

Monday.  Had to be Neil because he'd landed himself in hospital   .. !!!  Did some cleanup I'd been planning in test which all went well.  Otherwise just mostly being Neil all day.  

Got onto Neil.  He was doing ok, just a bit wobbly on his feet, awaiting MRI results.  Did a stir fry with leftover pork for dinner.  Then watched the third episode of Brides of Christ, and more photo labelling.

Tuesday.  omfg such a busy day, mainly in the afternoon it just didn't let up - people talking to me and wanting me to fix stuff all at once *all afternoon*.  Actually nearly lost it a few times. Leftover roast pork for dinner.  Did some photo labelling, although spent entirely too much time trying to identify birds seen along the Nile in Aswan.  Fourth episode of Brides of Christ with a super young Russell Crowe.  Only managed to label 136 photos, so now a day and a bit behind.  

Wednesday.  Too much stress, not enough time, and that's *before* going to work.  Spent all day investigating a problem that Aquila alerted us to late Tuesday afternoon.  Not nearly enough time to be Neil.  I can't deal.  Watched the fifth episode of Brides of Christ in the evening and nearly lost it when I saw Naomi Watts, Lisa Hensley and a magpie thirty years before the Penguin Bloom movie!

Thursday.  Sharpie called me super early.  I didn't hear the phone ring (phone is on silent anyway).  I did hear the buzzes of smses but didn't wake up enough to look at my phone.  So woke up at normal time and saw the messages and figured out instantly that the problem that had been affecting dev had also affected prod (I was actually worried that this might happen).  So was able to put a workaround in pretty quickly, but it did mean for a day of insanity.  In fact I spent the entire day on the phone on support calls and even missed drinks.  Sigh.  But we did still have pizza and I had a few beers at home.

Friday.  Another day of being on the phone *all day* but at least this time just with Connor and Jim which was a lot less stressful, but just as intense.  My ears hurt from having my headset on all day :(

Stu worked from home too which was nice.  I even had some pomegranate "tea" I got from Turkey in 2014 in our nice Cunard tea cups.  And he made lunch (leftover mince on toast).

It was definitely a candle and beer kind of an evening.

And I also finally tried Ray's method of reheating pizza - fried in a little oil with a lid on.

OMFG it was *so good* !!  Even better than the evening before and with a crispy base somewhat reminiscent of the old deep pan pizzas from the 80s.  Yum yum yum.

Simsons, X Files, and I watched Old Yeller, which I'd first (and last) seen a long long long time ago.  Thoroughly wholesome movie and super sad.

Saturday.  All the houseworks in the morning.  Checked on servers sporadically throughout the day (all good).  Spent ages rearranging pieces for the Disney behemoth jigsaw section.  We did pop out for some food shopping as well. 

Jim was talking about these on Friday so when we went out for lunch on Saturday we got one.  Delish!

In the evening Jenn came over for dinner.  Stu actually cooked a pretty amazing Indian feast with four different dishes plus rice.  Only small amounts of most of them so not much leftovers though!

We played a couple of games of Fluxx, then a game of Carcasonne (which I won) and a game of Ticket to Ride (which I also won).  It actually ended up being a pretty early night.

The candles I'd lit for the evening still had a good hour to go after Jenn left, so I watched the final episode of Brides of Christ.  Definitely quality television from back in the day.  I did have to laugh at some of the Sydneyisms - "It's like painting the harbour bridge - you no sooner get to one end then it's time to turn back and start at the other" and "I was wondering if getting off at Redfern was a natural method".  The second one in particular amused me because it makes absolutely perfect sense to anyone from Sydney, but even in the rest of Australia it may not make sense.  

Today my neck hurt.  Actually it started hurting yesterday.  Much the same as a few weeks back.  Vaccine related??  First time it was nine days after, this time about twenty.  Weird stuff.  Annie and Lily and Immy came over for a bit around lunch time, and we did pop out to the chemist.  Otherwise a fairly quiet day.  

Lamb roast for dinner tonight.  Used up some cauliflower and broccoli, finished up some cream, parsley and basil that were in the fridge.

Simpsons (into season 13) and X Files and aiming for an early night.

Monday.  5th.  Not backdating!  Slept relatively well.  Woke up at 6:40 and didn't push myself to do any scanning.  Worked from home and had a pretty decent day, not too many stoopid problems bugging me, in fact even solved a few people's problems for them which was nice.  Stu was still sick though and stayed home.  Made an "instant" lasagna for dinner with stuff I made on the weekend (the mince and a bechamel/cheese sauce I did for the veggies).  Did a bit of jigsaw and watched the third episode of Diagnosis.

Tuesday.  Slept well again but still a bit sniffly so worked from home.  A lot more distractions today, and then hurty.  Stu worked from home which was nice.  Finally finished off the potatoes we brought home from the club (I think there would have been about thirty of them, all cooked, so it was a race to get them eaten before they went moldy).  This time I fried them with the last of the unfrozen mince from the club night, and a bunch of cheese.  I did them without mince for lunch and we liked them so much I did it again for dinner with mince.  So yummy, my favourite of the ways we got through those potatoes. 

Did my quota of photo labelling by 19:18 and even ran the dishwasher.  Watched a couple of episodes of Diagnosis.  Got quite frustrated with the mother in the fifth episode, but then I later found the girl's Instagram account, where she was pretty scathing of the show and how it portrayed them.  She'd also had a couple of surgeries for some vascular problems that had never been thought of in the show.  

Wednesday.  Slept well until I woke up with hurty at 1:15 and it kept me away til nearly 3am.  Sigh.  So another zombie day.  Vicki was in town which offered the perfect excuse to work from home again.  Got photo labelling done early so X Files and Diagnosis in the evening (after finishing off the last of the unfrozen club leftovers - some spring rolls and chicken wings and chipolatas).

Thursday.  Finally felt up to scanning slides again, first time in nearly a week due to insomnia or sickness.  It was also the first time in nearly a week we didn't have the heater on in the morning and it was *cold* in the house.  Ok day, ok drinks.  Feeling a general depression over not really fitting in and not getting on with people and not really being "friends" with anyone much I work with.  So felt a bit blah even at drinks.  Started watching I, Tonya.

Friday.  Slept ok.  Ok day.  Did up doco and change paperwork for next round of cleaning next week.  Finished watching Fantasia.

Saturday.  Quiet day, alternating with housework and jigsaw. 

Yet again, went into battle dealing with the government online.  This time I wanted to get a certificate of my covid vaccination.  But to do that you have to link Medicare or the Health Record (which I think I opted out of) to mygov.  But of course it refused to link my Medicare account didn't it.  It wanted the number and address details etc, but kept complaining I hadn't answered things correctly, at which point it prompted to fill in all the details of my bank accounts and my last doctor's appointment, including the date and how much it cost.  And I'm like wtf.  So I rage quit on that and called them.  Fortunately I pretty much got straight through, and they gave me a linking code I could enter and that worked and it linked up and I got my covid vaccination certificate.  Hurrah.  Now let's just hope they'll let us travel.  I'd be happy to do home quarantine when we get back if that's what it takes.  So long as I don't have to fight with tour companies about getting money back on trips...  

Found someone had uploaded Brides of Christ to DailyMotion, so watched the first episode of that.  We watched this when it came out back in 1991, and I blogged that I watched in when it was on tv again in 2003.  Downloaded and processed phone photos while that was on.  Dinner was some mince that I cooked last weeked, with tomato paste and tomatoes and pasta.  Into season 2 of the X Files, and then I finished I, Tonya.  It's actually not a bad movie.  Margot Robbie did a pretty good job (she even did a lot of the skating), although she's just a bit tall and *big* to pass for Tonya Harding, who was tiny. 

Sunday.  A quiet day of housework stuff, jigsaw, and blogging and computer stuff.  We did go out for lunch and food shopping/chemist as well.  About to go prep dinner.  

Monday.  28th.  Backdating.  No symptoms from my second Pfizer jab, other than a sore arm, which wasn't even as bad as the first time.  First day of "the mask" except I didn't actually leave the house.  A project forced the hand on a cleanup I'd been wanting to do in forever only I was hesitant to get approvals to do it - cause if it ain't broke don't fix it.  Except it was broked, so was going to have to do the cleanup which was a big win.  Finished all of my labelling by dinner time.  Same club leftovers as last night - empanadas, potato, salad.  Finished off day 21 labelling after dinner, then Alfred Hitchcock and first episode of Diagnosis (produced by someone who was actually a consultant on House!

Tuesday.  Did the cleaning I planned yesterday.  Took my lunch so I wouldn't need to go to the mall and wear a mask.  Had a big outage in the afternoon although luckily I wasn't affected so pretty much business as usual.  Leftover club potatoes (one tray thinly sliced, one try a bit smashed, then baked - the smashed ones needed to be more smashed) and wings for dinner.  Labelled 220 photos after dinner.

Wednesday.  Woke up at 1:47 and didn't get back to sleep til well after 5am, stressing about All The Things.  I might have actually gone back to bed, except I had a dentist appointment in the morning - first in two years since I didn't go last year because of covid.  This was the first time of wearing a mask indoors.  Except I'd just been out in the freezing cold air, and as soon as I went inside the mask made my glasses fog up instantly.  I hadn't been to the dentist in their new location, and so I was trying to figure out where to go but I literally couldn't see.  No wonder people don't like wearing masks.  Zombie day.  Took my lunch again so I wouldn't have to go to the mall.  Did some bits and pieces of work but not terribly efficient.  Late home.  Even had a beer, tv dinners, and watched Fantasia 2000.

Thursday.  Woke up at 2:20 and didn't get back to sleep til nearly 5am.  Sigh.  Although strangely didn't feel as much of a zombie as yesterday.  Wearing the mask and having it fog up my glasses the whole time got pretty old pretty quickly.  First time at the mall, and (almost) everyone wearing masks.  Such a strange sight to see in Canberra!  There were police patrolling too, although they didn't pull up the one guy we saw not wearing his mask properly.  But also school holidays which made the mall all kinds of horrendous.  Neil bought a pack of ten reusable masks, so I bought a couple off him.  Pretty quiet drinks, then pizza, Simpsons, X Files, and the start of Fantasia.

Friday.  Woke up at 12:40 and didn't get back to sleep til around 3am.  Epic sigh.  During that time I felt like I was getting a bit of a cough and sniffle.  Started to work from home in the morning, but definitely sick, so gave up and went back to bed.  Spent most of the day in bed.  Not a single minute of sleep though.  Like I've missed about seven hours of sleep during the week and I was sick, you'd think I'd be able to sleep.  Nope.  My body simply refuses to sleep.  So fricken annoying.  Loaded potatoes with mince, parsley, cabbage, cream and sour cream for dinner then just watched crap on the internet.  Stu also started getting sick in the afternoon.  Most likely we both picked it up at the club on the weekend.  Hurrah. 

Saturday.  Took forever to get to sleep - couldn't breathe and restless.  But then did sleep okish after that til after 7am.  Stayed in bed all morning (aside from getting up for breakfast, and later cheesy hash browns with club potatoes for brunch).  Not sleeping of course. 

Spent the afternoon just watching stuff on the internet (a fair bit from Oversimplified), and puttering through rss feeds. 

Performed surgery on one of the masks I bought off Neil - simply threaded a paper clip through the top of it to make a nose bridge, to see if it'll make any difference to my glasses fogging up.

Tried to make NQN's accordion potatoes for dinner, but I think they really need to be raw first so they didn't really work.  Simpsons/X Files/stuff on internet in the evening.

Sunday.  Another very slow day, mostly just watching crap on the internet.  Cooked roast pork for dinner, although pretty fail on the crackling - possibly because I was using the deeper dish, so not as much air flow.  Also some mince to use with whatever, and lots of veggies.  Early night (didn't process photos or blog though).

Monday.  21st.  Accidentally slept in til my alarm because when I woke up earlier I thought it was 5:08 not 6:08 because my glasses were blocking the clock.  Had an ok day.  Fought with Powershell and XML.  Put on beef brisket at lunch time.  Labelled 166 photos before dinner and another 60 after dinner and cleaning up the kitchen.  Then watched the second episode of Netflix's Pandemic documentary (I think I watched the first one Sunday night).  It was filmed in 2019 and released in January 2020.  Which makes the timing of it especially eerie.  But omfg I can't stand anti-vaxxers.  They're fricken dangerous.

Tuesday.  Trying to concentrate on one thing, only to be hit with another big important thing, (it never rains but it pours) then had to go to a BS meeting in the middle of it all which was the biggest waste of my time ever.  Third episode of Pandemic in the evening.  Yesterday I'd had pain in my hamstrings, I'm guessing from all the weeding I did on the weekend, but Tuesday night my neck hurt if I turned my head side to side.  Very strange.

Wednesday.  Neck still hurt.  Mostly worked on the two big projects that needed rules.  Then the same firewall that caused me so much grief last year stitched me up again.  Sigh.  But did get caught up with photo labelling.

Thursday.  Woke up at dentist time but didn't get back to sleep til after 4 :( Neck slightly better.  But omfg all the stoopid.  All the firewalls being stoopid and people being stoopid made me lose it.  But there was cheesy garlic Subway for lunch and drinks.  Finished up season 11 of The Simpsons.  X Files, and 5th episode of Pandemic.

Friday.  Neck slightly better.  Busy day trying to get *one thing* done in between interruptions and questions and people wanting stuff. Lunch was pesto pasta I made (using jar pesto).

It rained a few times in the afternoon.  At 4pm this was the light level in my study..

Finally got it done a bit after 5pm and tested it and it worked!  Into season 12 of The Simpsons, then X Files.  Then I watched Black Swan, which was pretty intense.  I think I'd lose if I didn't know what was real...

Saturday.  Did some washing but really nothing much all day :(  Headed out to the club in the afternoon for a winter solstice carnivale.  The brief was "colourful dressups", and, being winter solstice, I figured I could do Elsa again and get another wear out of the dress ;)  (and finally got to use the hair pins that hadn't turned up in time last time).  Numbers were down because of all the cancellations because of Covid.

Lots of food..

I had a relatively early night (maybe 10:30), but I couldn't get to sleep for hours.  Felt too cold which probably didn't help.  I lit the fire when I woke up after 7, but didn't get much more sleep.  Got up and cooked bacon and eggs for breakfast, then went back to bed to try and get some more sleep.  Think I got a smidgen.  So didn't end up getting up til after 10:30 :(  Went up to see if anything needed cleaning, but it had all been done, so just took away heaps of the leftovers.  With assurances from people that the rest would get taken (last month I didn't take it all, but noone else took any, so a whole bunch of food ended up getting thrown out :( ).  We put orders in online for Chemist Warehouse, but they still weren't ready by the time we got home.  It was at least an hour and a half after putting the order in that we got smses.  Hopeless.  Headed out again (via the chemist) to Garran so I could get my second Pfizer jab!!!

They were a lot better organised (and had more staff on) so I was in and out in twenty minutes (five minutes signing in and answering questions and fifteen minutes after to make sure I didn't keel over).  Had leftover club empanadas and potatoes and salad for dinner. 

Watched the last episode of the Surgeon's Cut which I realised I hadn't seen, The Simpsons and the X Files with the sweetie, then the final episode of Pandemic: How to prevent an outbreak.  Which really didn't have a whole lot on actually how to prevent an outbreak, only that we're underprepared if there is one.  Covid-19 anyone?

And download and processed my photos from the week, and blogged.  Last week my phone wasn't taking photos sometimes.  This week I found it took like five in a burst a couple of times.  Fricken hopeless Apple. 

So far no symptoms from my jab, although I did warn people I may not be in tomorrow...

Monday. 14th.  Here's a photo of the cauliflower and mushroom bake I did that night.

Tuesday.  15th.  After a long weekend Tuesday felt like a Monday.  Got to do some cleaning in the afternoon.  In the evening I passed the halfway mark of my Eurasia photo labelling!   

Wednesday.  Finally finished the doco I wanted to have done by the end of last week.  Finished labelling day 19 of Eurasia photos.  Just over a third of the way through the holiday, but half way through the number of photos.  Started watching The Social Dilema.  Interesting and somewhat depressing.  

Thursday.  Garlic subs are back!

Finished The Social Dilema.  

Friday. Super busy afternoon cleaning.  Simpsons and X-Files with the sweetie, then I had a look through Disney+ for something to watch.  Happened across a Pixar movie I hadn't heard of, so thought "that'll do".  I didn't see any pictures, and all I saw in the review was "coming of age" film in Italy.  The film was "Luca" and it was lovely, and it had literally been released *that day* !  So that was pretty cool.

Saturday.  Day of doing all the things at home.  We did go out at lunch and did our food shopping at the markets.  Made crumbed basa for dinner, which I'll put in another post.  It was good but I put in too much lemon juice so it didn't really crisp up.  First thing in the morning they had the Batman soundtrack on the radio, so I thought was should watch Batman in the evening, so we did!

Sunday.  Spent most of the day choosing and processing photos for my This Day in History posts, which are getting further and further behind (I keep finding photos of Dad's to use and the perfectionist in me wants to use those but I haven't finished processing them yet.. hrmmm).  Still didn't get it all done though.  Immy came over for an hour in the afternoon to play with Stumpy.

Then I got stuck into prepping dinner - the second recipe out of my Women's Weekly Gratins and Bakes book.  I'll post that in its own post too.  But by the time I was done with dinner it was 17:45 and I still hadn't downloaded and processed my photos for the week, so it all just got too hard.

Backdating this entry by a week...