Wishing all my readers a very Merry Christmas and a happy and safe New Year! Well Christmas is upon us and it is going to hot here according to the forecast! Actually we’re in for a heatwave over the next week. Nothing under 37°C (98°F) and up to 41°C (105°F) in the coming days. So it will be cold meats and salads for us on Christmas day! Thankfully we usually do most of our cooking on Christmas Eve – it’s often too hot on Christmas day! Actually as I write this the Christmas pudding is … [Read more...]
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
I’d like to wish all of my readers a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful and safe New Year! It is going to be a beautiful day, weather wise for Christmas this year. It will be about 28 °C (82 °F) here which is cool enough that we can enjoy a hot Christmas lunch but it won’t be too cold. We will be able to have a lovely Christmas lunch outside under our veranda (patio). Because it’s not going to be too hot we will be having some roast meats and vegetables. Plus this year I have made a … [Read more...]
Links I Love from November
The weather has been up and down these last few weeks. We had hot days and hot nights towards the end of November but the start of December has been quite cool. We have had plenty of rain over the last few weeks too. That has been good for the garden but unfortunately the weeds have enjoyed the rain as well. So we have still been weeding when we have normally finished our springtime weeding by now! We’ve got some tromboncino plants growing in the veggie garden this year. We decided to grow … [Read more...]
Links I Love from December
We’ve been into January for well over a week now so I thought it was about time I have a look back at some of the great blog posts that I saw during December. Seeing that this post is about December it goes without saying that it will contain Christmas links. Just about everyone was sharing their best Christmas recipes, craft, and DIY ideas; so I had to include a few! As usual I will provide the direct link as well an image in the form of a Pinterest pin. So you can head straight to the … [Read more...]
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
I would like to wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and I hope you have a happy and safe New Year. Well there is not long to go now before the big day. I think that I have most things organized! I just have some presents to wrap but it has become a tradition in our family to leave most of the wrapping until Christmas Eve. This Christmas is going to be a hot one for us here in Australia! We have had a mild summer so far but the Christmas period is giving us our first heat wave! … [Read more...]
Links I Love from November
Welcome back to my regular monthly Links I Love post. Today I will be sharing some of the great links that I saw during November. A few days ago I wasn’t sure whether I’d be able to do this month’s link I love post. I didn’t think that I would be able to include the Pinterest pins because Pinterest wasn’t working for me. Actually for much of the last week of November I could only see coloured squares in Pinterest. It was very frustrating! I checked out some forums and was relieved to see … [Read more...]
Links I Love from January
There are some really great websites out there that share some amazing ideas. Here are some of my favourite Links from January 2016. Well we are well and truly into February and the while the weather is still hot we are getting cooler nights which are quite nice. The nights have been wonderful for having a BBQ dinner outside so we will be making the most of that before the weather changes! Another thing that we have been enjoying lately is some fresh watermelon from the garden! We have … [Read more...]
Links I Love from December
Happy New Year and welcome to back to my latest Links I Love post where I will be looking back at some of my favourite links from December! I hope that you all enjoyed the festive season and are having a great start to 2016. We had a hot Christmas Day so lots of salads, chilled desserts, and ice cold drinks were on the menu. It was also a warm end to December with New Year’s Eve being 39 °C (102 °F)! As I post this today we are heading to a top of 42 °C (108 °F) which is really giving the … [Read more...]