... rained in ...

Tuesday 14 December 2010 10.28 pm AEDST

started raining lightly, was very tired and lay down, got up to close car, garage, toolshed, cottage and for Nigella and Cheese Slices; watched Nigella (can a christmas party be made up of glazed petit sausages, litttle meat balls in tomato sauce, gingerbread (sans icing) and seasonal coloured jelly beans with pink processo flavoured with ? Chambord ???????); kitchen sluttiness is one thing but poor menu planning is another :: time to call in the caterers, honey.

watched some of Cheese Slices, this was about truffled cheese in Piedmont; poor doggies didn't get any, even though they found them.

was more interested in reading about white charcoal and japanese knives at Chef's Armoury on Botany Road, Roseberry (NSW), mentioned in this weeks Good Living (online version, not same as weekly edition, a newsprint magazine lift out every Tuesday in SMH. has local foodie news, recipes, product reviews and lots of ads. now on holiday until 18 Jan 2011. why do they go on holiday just when everyone has time to read them beacuse they're on holiday; television and radio also closing down until late Jan/early Feb and leaving us with rerebroadcasts of rebroadcasts and 48 hour marathons of Top Gear old series; already filling staellite waves with reruns of 4 year old Great British Chefs).

now raining lightly and cool breeze through mosquito screen ( determined mosquito could knock to verandah in microseconds). hope rain disappears in morning so can finish off front lawns (now high alpine meadows full of yellow flowers). yawn.