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Kids and kidPosted on Thu 30 August 2007 at 11:03Melissa went to her school social (disco) this evening – dressed as an Emo. Look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo_(slang) if you need reminding what an Emo is! She wore my boots as they are black but I’m not sure that Emo’s wear 3 inch heels! Hey, what would I know! She came back in one piece so obviously has her mother’s knack for walking in heels. She seems to have had a good time. Her friend from next door came over and they looked like a pair of bloody burglars before they put their make-up on. I was going to ask if they took orders as I really fancy a cheap water feature for the garden but I refrained! (She has just told me she is going out at Hallowe’en as Emo girl with furry pumpkin cat!) It’s good to see her socialising but we always thought she would make the transition to New Zealand as well as she has every other move we have forced upon her in her short life due to the RAF dictating our every move in Britain. Well done Melissa! And tomorrow is MUFTI day at school so she has every intention of going in her pyjamas!! I had to make a huge effort today and for the first time drove myself as far as Kmart to purchase new pyjamas for this event – hope she truly appreciates how I put myself out for her. I have been quite remiss in the driving department. I have been very lazy and let Steve ferry me about. I know I really should have made more effort but at least I am getting slightly further afield as time goes by. Which reminds me – in 5 weeks, we will have been here a year! We have to sit our driving theory tests soon or we will be illegal.Just by way of a change, we had ‘Italian kid’ for tea. No, we are not cannibals importing foreign children for our gastronomic delight (although I would imagine Italian children would taste quite heavily of garlic, tomatoes, olive oil and oregano). We saw goat meat in Pac n Save the other day and nothing else would do but we try it. I scanned the internet for recipes and came up with Italian Kid. The meat had very little flavour to be honest so you couldn’t really like or dislike it as it was so innocuous. But in it’s garlic, tomatoes, olive oil and oregano sauce, you couldn’t tell that, so it was OK. It reminded me of several lamb curries I have eaten in the past so I can’t help but wonder……… I also made pizza bread which was really nice, I impressed myself with that one and will dish it up to visitors at every chance for a while. The garden is now completely finished. I cheated the other day – I put one of the new plants in a pot that was far too small for it – to the degree I stood on it to get it go in……..so today, as I was in KMart anyway, I bought the most enormous plastic pot for this plant. I then potted it up when I got home, then had an empty pot and had to upsize several plants. Did I mention the compost bin? I don’t think so. Since we moved here, there has been a compost bin in the garden, neatly tucked in beside the greenhouse. Well, to fill all the pots, I finally dug into it and mixed it with the remains of a bag of compost we had already bought. There was no difference! That compost is fantastic! I was so impressed with it, I have started adding to it myself – today saw the first veg peelings and a shredded newspaper going in there - I love my garden! |
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