Wholemeal pancakes with banana
If you happen to be at Fangorn Farm on a Saturday morning when the woodstove is cranking, you will be offered pancakes for breakfast. I love pancakes. They always seem to feature in favourite moments in my memory. Corn fritters as a kid. Banana pancakes (like the ones I made today) in Bali. The amazing […]
Snippets of farm stuff
We do love our chickens! Chelsea is sitting on some eggs. We enjoy gathering eggs each day. It’s sometimes difficult to use as many eggs as we are getting each day but it’s such a great part of our day. We have a couple of newborn lambs – both boys. This one had only just […]
Pizza dough
To continue my bread making frenzy, I decided to forego our temperamental breadmaker, which we usually use to mix our pizza dough, and make my own. When I was a kid, we made pizza most Saturday nights. Uncle Fran would come over and he and dad would make the dough, have a beer and then […]
Bread
Out of laziness, I made bread. I couldn’t be bothered leaving the house in the wind/rain/sleet/snow to go to the shops just for a loaf of (probably stale) bread. It was so good, I keep making it! It’s so easy and so very, very tasty! You don’t need a breadmaker (ours is broken anyway) and […]
Round
I think of all the times I’ve commented on a pregnant lady’s bulging belly. Usually, with wide eyes, I’ll say something like (jokingly) ‘did you swallow a watermelon?’ Or ‘are you having a baby?’ Or ‘your tummy is so big!’ It’s not that I want to offend. It’s just that I find a round belly […]
Spring Holiday Highlights (part 2)
We spent a bit of time in the garden. Georgia did the mowing with the ride-on mower. She did a good job. And Elora had a ride on the mower with daddy! One of my past students, Rachel, came to visit us with her beautiful family. Rachel was travelling around Tasmania at the time. We […]
Spring holiday highlights (Part 1)
We had lovely spring holidays, shared with Monte’s parents. The weather was fairly average, but we did have some lovely days where the sun shone (if only for a while!). There was a lovely mix between going on fun outings and having quiet, restful moments. The Holidays started a bit early for our family, with […]
19 weeks
If I’m going to have this baby early like the others, I am now at least halfway through my pregnancy. It has been a fairly rough start, with yucky morning sickness as well as gastro bugs and sinusitis and head colds and a general feeling of fatigue. I love feeling the baby wriggle and kick […]
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