Freo Friday

I haven't made it in to Freo for a few weeks because post natal yoga is getting in the way of my usual friday lunch with the girls, so I only saw these lovelies yesterday. The guess was they've been up about three weeks already.

Along High Street in front of New Edition (the best bookstore in town) right next to the backpackers.

Have a lovely weekend. We're going to have a housefull (flatfull?) of girls* over making softies for Mirabel.

Mx

*not real girls as in teenagers or younger, but my mates, the girls. I probably should start using the word ladies, but it doesn't feel right... maybe when we're in our forties...

Yarn Along

Playing along with Ginny again this week.

I've had this project on the needles for longer than I care to remember,  but I'm so pleased that three solid days being driven all over the country side has given me many hours with my hands free to knit. This slouchy beret is so close to being finished, and look at how close I was to not having enough wool left! (dang, I cut that off in the photo, but trust me, there are mere millimeters on the other side of the photo edge). The pattern is the alice beret from knitting little luxuries.

And I'm reading Life of Pi by Yann Martel for book club. I have read it before and loved it, so I've chosen it for our current book club selection.

Head on over to Small Things to check out other Yarners.

Mx

Breakfast of Kings

Of The King... PB and banana hotdogs, a simplified version of Elvis's fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches, soo delicious! I love a lot of butter (real butter, organic and most definitely salted) and smooth PB, put on while the bread butts are hot enough to make it melty.

I've Nigella to thank for putting me on to this wonderful flavour combination way back in 01 with her Nigella Bites Series and cookbook. That cookbook is hands down the most cooked from cook book that I own. I have a goal to cook at least one dish from every cook book I have (to justify keeping them all), but alas most of them just sit in the book case and I get most of my recipes from blogs or the internet.

 I just did a search and Nigella's recipe for Presley's Fried Peanut-Butter and Banana Sandwich is available here.  Unfortunately you miss out on the preamble you get to the recipe in the book, which is one of the reasons I love her cook books so, as much for the food as to read her stories. After all these years, I still have a girl crush on her.

Try them, you'll only be sorry calorifically...

Mx

Yarn Along

Ginny over at Small Things has started a new meme - Yarn Along, a photo of what you're reading and knitting/crocheting.

I have the granny shrug by Kootoyoo on the hook at the moment (it's been on there for a while), and I'm reading The No Cry Sleep Solution by Elizabeth Pantley, trying to get a little insight into the sleeping habits and needs of babies.

Aparrently the wee man could be giving me another 5 to 6 hours a day to catch up on sleep and housework (16-17 hours a day instead of 12). Things have gotten better though and I think 5 years of night-shift at the Mail Exchange are finally paying dividends.

Pop over to Small Things to check out other crafty readers.

Mx

Freo Friday

So much more interesting than a plain wall. I took this photo last summer and I think it's been painted again (not as nicely).

Mx