Tuesday

I am LOVING this weather right now! (really, who isn't)  When I came home from taking Nicholas and Audrey to school this morning I sat in our sunny morning spot with a cup of tea, a slice of David's bread toasted and read.  It was divine... I can hear the breeze blowing through the huge gumtree in our neighbours yard and the hum of traffic along the road behind us.

 

I am hoping this can be the beginning of a joyful ritual I endeavour to undertake when I am on leave.  5 working days to go, but who is counting?  Certainly not me when I think of the reports I need to have written and finalised before I finish...

 

 

 At the moment I am reading Romulus, My Father by Raimond Gaita.  I had seen the movie, but particularly wanted to read the book after David and I spent a little time in the area the book is set in.  I love the way it is wrtitten as I think we all come from families with everyday stories that have contribued to making us who we are.  I love social and personal histories.

 

Then with Nicholas I am reading the Borrowers by Mary Norton.  I read these when I was younger.  And Audrey is reading the Princess and the Pea by Hans Christian Anderson.  When she likes a story she likes to read it every night.  For days.

 

At the moment I am cooking dinner, from my favourite go to family cook book.  I've made this sweet and sour pork before and one of my favourite things to do is to make the Chinese five spice myself.  Fennel seed, star anise, szeshuan pepper, cloves and cinnamon.  It smells fantastic.  We've also taken to eating more brown rice. Nicholas has a friend over from school today, perhaps the first time we've done this?  I can hear them squealing and running outside so I'll have some uninterrupted time to get this ready. :)