Rum and raisin to me is the perfect flavour for anything sweet. If it’s chocolate, icecream or fudge, it’s always best in rum and raisin. Mint comes a very close second. So when I was flicking through a cook book of mum’s and saw rum and raisin cake, I thought I’d have to be onto [...]
I had a brain wave about the cat enclosure – why not use a cubby house or a kid’s play fort? Unfortunately most of the options available involved too much customisation, weren’t tall enough or weren’t quite right for our needs. Then I stumbled across the Design A Shed website and found something perfect for [...]
It seems that I’m not the only one loving the cooler months. A few of the plants we put in during April are really doing well in the cooler weather. They get plenty of sunshine during the day and the odd spell of rain we’re having doesn’t seem to be doing them any harm at [...]
Some noice…. Winter is probably my favourite time of year, despite the coughs and colds that go around. It certainly helps when there is less rain than during the warmer months. I guess there’s something dreary about the day when it is cold and wet but when the sun comes out, it really is a [...]
As part of the Noice-ities theme week, Leigh and Laura are asking about your favourite winter recipe. Generally speaking, I tend to eat the same foods in winter that I would in summer. This is probably because I lack any kind of repertoire which extends to seasonal cooking as much as it has to do [...]
This weekend has been perfect weather – not too cold but not too hot in the sun either. Our fruit trees have been suffering in tiny pots for far too long so we’ve finally given them a new home in the ground. They are meant to be balcony size fruit trees so it will be [...]
This weekend, in an effort to avoid doing some much needed domestic work, we headed off to the ABC Garden Show at the Brisbane Convention Centre. I have mixed success with plants – the majority of exotic plants (excepting frangipanis) tend to fade away in my care. As does anything that requires an extensive regime [...]
I think I must have been bored this weekend because I started looking for trouble. Or maybe it’s because I was sick of being woken up in the middle of the night by a cat rummaging shopping bags out of the bottom of the little tube they were stored in. I’m sure most people either [...]
This was not supposed to be a block that was tricky to landscape. But because of building covenants, it meant that the retaining wall we normally would have had constructed on the boundary line had to be brought in by half a metre or so. Something to do with retaining walls not being permitted over [...]
It’s only taken almost six months. But I can now say that I have a backyard. Of course it was always there but a whole heap of barren soil just doesn’t seem to paint the picture of an ideal Aussie backyard. A typical Aussie backyard should have turf in it and now ours finally does. [...]
