My week in pictures: Lovely Bonkers' Second Born

Monday, August 5, 2019

What we do in winter

So, it would seem that what 'we' do in winter is eat food, visit friends, go for walks, read books and do puzzles. Put like that, it sounds rather idyllic, I must say. Here is the photographic proof, starting with date night dinner at Turkish Delight.

Manti

Lamb Güveç

The bedside book table continues to evolve.

A trip to Sydney for a workshop saw me popping into this cafe in the morning. I liked the artwork, the coffee and the breakfast buns at Urban Piccolo in Redfern.

Lovely Bonkers' Second Born turned eighteen, which is obviously cause for celebration. And cake (made, naturally, by Emma Cake). And unicorn slippers.

Walking in the Pinnacles, we went kangaroo-spotting, but only to shoot them in camera way; not a gun way.

The Coronation Street puzzle is two-sided: this is the black-and-white old timey side.

Roast lamb with all the trimmings is definitely something to which to look forward all week. And 'all the trimmings' definitely means Yorkshire pudding, does it not?

Monday, March 18, 2019

Wagga Wagga and a Shave

I had a work trip to Wagga Wagga - scoff all you like, but the food at Carlo's Cafe was excellent.

Calamity Sue with chicken & waffles

I came across this Sandakan Memorial on my morning run. I have been to Sandakan and Ranau, and I have been touched by the story of the prisoners of war, and those who tried to help them ever since. If you read the inscription below, you will be too. It was quite a shock to see this on a sleepy back street among the municipal bins.

The sculpture illustrates the route of the death marches, indicated by a bronze ribbon slashing through a topographical representation of the terrain, and is in memory of the men who enlisted from the Southern region of NSW. We will remember them.

The opposite of that sobering moment was at the conclusion of the day's work when we went to The Thirsty Crow for some beer tasting. I encouraged Calamity Sue to try the Vanilla Milk Stout, one of my favourite Aussie beers. I think she liked it...

Obviously, I did not take the below picture, but I saw it on the internet and I wanted to save it because I think it is adorable.

When we returned to Canberra, Calamity Sue was participating in the World's Greatest Shave charity event to raise funds for the Leukaemia Foundation. Lovely Bonkers' First Born and Emma Cake wielded the scissors and the clippers - they partitioned the hair into segments so that it can be made into wigs for those with cancer. Calamity Sue is brave and beautiful, and she looks amazing with long or short locks.

Emma Cake also made a cake (fairly unsurprisingly), which was one of the prizes in the raffle. There was also plenty of food and drink and music - on the way back from Wagga Wagga, we had compiled a play list of several hours' worth of tunes that mention hair, no matter how obliquely (F*ckin Perfect by Pink; I'm looking at you).