Today the Bureau of Meteorology told us that tonight's minimum temperature will be 13* (C - which is around 55* in the old money)and this coming Sunday's MAXIMUM is going to be 13*!!!
Nice and warm and no need to add a quilt to the bed for tonight, and by Sunday the forecast is for snow down to 1,000 metres...
I have had the Rayburn fired up a bit recently. And made some overly sweet pancakes from a recipe that I found on an American blog. They had started with a basic pancake mix with a spiral of butter melted with cinnamon and castor sugar. Flip the pancake, finish cooking them all, layer them and add a frosting with cream cheese, icing sugar and cinnamon. The sugar burst made me fall asleep almost immediately. Furthermore, the original creator never said that I would need a cold chisel to get the cinnamon toffee off the pan...I am not going to credit the original source cos I don't think it is one to repeat.
I didn't get a photo of the plated up product - it DID look so good that The Sweetheart and I fell upon it like wolves upon the fold...
I have been knitting. knitting. knitting...
It is getting bigger and bigger!!! There is enough left from 8 metres of what is on one of the skeins to make one of the tiny squares which start with 8 stitches per side.There is a pretty rainbow of other bundles that I am combining to make multi-coloured squares. There are a few in it already, each made of up to four different but similar colours.
Aren't they pretty?
And then to finish off, for the moment - LOOK WHAT HAS MOVED IN DOWN THE ROAD!!!!!!!
Aren't they so totally gorgeous and amazing?! They are just in a paddock, a hundred metres up on the edge of the bush, just down the road from me. As if it isn't enough to have the Clydesdales on holiday from Sovereign Hill next door to alpacas, donkeys and an emu, and lots of other horses, sheep, cattle now we have a lovely little zoo.
It doesn't matter that although all the rest are truly ruly real animals and these are life-size statues. They are fabulous!
I wish I had some, too.
4 comments:
I would have just thrown the pan away. All that sugar sounds very nice and tempting though. Your blanket is looking fab and very colourful. I was almost fooled by the animals, even so, lovely to look at and cheer you up. The weather here in good old Blighty is hot and sticky and I am not feeling good in it. Mustnt complain though because we wait all year for it to happen, wishing it to be hot. Phew!
literally in your street ? or the one upon which I would have to drive to get to you ?
Trying to make Vocal Nosh termorrer eve so may have to swing by for a looksee.
WOW, HAVE YOU BEEN KNITTING! And that's a blanket with serious curl-up-on-the-couch potential...
I've dropped over from Bonnie's blog when i realised you are a fellow Aussie! I love the throw that you have been making...those colours look really great. I can just imagine the mess of rock hard 'toffee' left in the pan. There's a US recipe for 'bread and butter' pud which has caramelised sugar underneath the custard but at least that wouldn't go hard. They sure love sweet things over there :-0 !
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