Christmas Srumdidilyumptious!

Well done to Stacey for hosting the Christmas day luncheon this year. What an effort with decorations, present wrapping and Christmas table. That girl has a real eye for detail! Well done sis! I was asked to make something for the entree, so I made three different types of starters: Number 1- curried egg with spring onion on topables or melba toast, Number 2 - sliced cherry tomato, boccocini and olive tepanade and finally Number 3 - roast beef with salsa verde (consisting of parsley, dijon mustard, capers, finely diced roast beef, lemon juice and olive oil)! All totally winners. Mum also made some chicken and asparagus mornay vol au vents. Delicious of course, she is a brilliant cook! Stace cooked a great turkey and yummo vegies. So many people contributed to an exceptionally great Christmas day.

Pavers Plus

Well we have been plugging away at the pavers since the last weekend that my parents helped us. If my memory serves me correctly, it was the second last weekend of November, around the 22nd. We really took the foot off the accelarator since then, because of all the parties, weddings and general drink-ups. However, in the last couple of days since returning from a Christmas holiday in Sydney, we've returned to the paving and have made some good progress. We are still on track to have most of the work completed before the Australia Day Eve party. Anyway, enjoy the pictures for now. The bricks will be made into outdoor couches that will be rendered and possibly have some of those stacked slate tiles on them. Still a lot more to be done, but be sure to stay posted....