NEARLY CHRISTMAS

A WEEK OF HOUSESITTING coming up.   a friend in geelong has asked me to mind her house, garden and chooks over christmas.  How perfect - i'll drive down on tuesday, the first time in 7 months.  The car is filling up with things to take down, mostly presents for Etta, i got a bit carried away!

DID A BIT OF BAKING the other day, shortbreads to try out my new embossing rolling pins.  A bot disappointing, they rose a bit so the patterns pretty much disappeared. i'll have to try again with a different recipe

this young black faced cuckoo shrike made maximum used of the sprinklers yesterday, hanging from the branch and spreading its wings every time the spray came around :0)

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