baking and making with my family of 9
well yesterday I wrote about the lovely day I was having. Retro daddy was here and we were each doing our own things, joking about the best flavour of the lindt balls, elodie was running between us and it was just nice to have him home and I was thinking I wish he could work […]
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Happy Valentines Day lovely readers. I’m sure not all of my readers celebrate the day….in fact retro daddy was not a fan of the day in the early years of our marriage. But I think it’s a sweet day and the kids looooooove it. Plus I am having the most relaxing day today. Which is kind […]
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I’m a year round knitter………summer, winter, autumn or spring I am knitting. I don’t wait for the cold weather. Now that I have my fancy pants knitting bag I’ve been keeping my projects in there and taking it wherever I go and know I’ll have a little time up my sleeve for a few rows […]
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Oops I’ve been a little tardy getting back to people and answering their questions! I’m so sorry. You talk a lot about the babies but I’d love to know about Finn oh dear little Finn. He is such a chatterbox and fun machine. Now of course you can see that he looks like his daddy. […]
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I’ve been feeling a little inspired to bake some bread. Especially since little elodie will be doing some breadmaking each week at her new playgroup. And bread is so easy in the thermomix. It kneads it in a couple of minutes. So I pulled out my Thermomix book and made the seeded loaf without the […]
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This recipe totally takes me back to cake stalls, birthday parties in primary school and the 80’s. I found this recipe in one of my Australian Woman’s Weekly cookbooks that was published in 1982 and it’s delicious. Except I had to reduce the butter. The recipe called for 185g but you can totally cut this […]
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Although I have 3 girls fairly spread out in ages( 6, 4, 2) the hand – me -downs don’t always work out and at the moment we have a bit of a stockpile going on in Tillie’s wardrobe as she’s quite thin compared to keira and elodie so the clothes aren’t moving out that fast. […]
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I have totally lost track of the days here. No idea where we’re up to so I’ll just guess day 17 or end of week 4. The painting is taking a lot longer than expected (was supposed to be 2 weeks) because the painter is down to himself with no helpers plus I think he […]
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OK, I’ve just booked the hall so it’s all happening. Get our your diaries. We are going to be making some lovely things for Dandelion Support Network on Sunday 24th March in Sydney. What are we doing? We are making quilts and blankets to donate to Dandelion Support Network who are an amazing Sydney based […]
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