Kickin' Off The Week.....

Of course, I forgot the camera when we toddled off to Huia's this morning for some fun and adventure playing card games, building with train sets, having stories read to us round the fire, building huts, gathering/trimming branches, fire building, quietly watching the duck sitting on her nest, feeding the Arapawa Island ewe and her lamb, cooking our sausages skewered on a freshly-snipped olive tree stick, burning our popcorn over our fire, and sharing freshly-baked bread rolls with home-made yellow plum sauce.

We managed to talk A10 into getting a flash new haircut on the way home:

We expanded the wooden block city that has nearly consumed the lounge floor:

While L8 was at Brownies, H6 went with The Lad to visit some Kingfisher houses down in the forest they had spotted a few days ago:


Our mates Josh, Jessica, Jack and Nicky came for a quick play so the boys got busy modifying Josh's Go Kart:

We couldn't talk them into staying for dinner, even though I got out my much-prized Scanpan pressure cooker (can you tell I have an anti-aluminium-for-food thing going on, with my stainless steel coffee pot and my stainless steel pressure cooker, lol?). I love the convenience of it because I got a 3kg roast out of the freezer at 3.30pm, put it in there for 3/4 of an hour, took it out and browned it in the convection oven while I made a risotto with the skimmed stock base left in the pressure cooker - yum! Dinner at 5.30 with leftover meat for sammies tomorrow. Easy Peasy.

Rugby Trivia for The Day:
The All Blacks beat England 41-20 this morning. The result was England's heaviest margin of defeat at Twickenham, overhauling the 18-point difference when they went down 29-11 to South Africa in 1997. It also marked their worst run for 34 years after a string of six losses.

I'm sure you're more at peace with yourself now that you know that ;o)