Good Friday in Australia
Mar 29th 2013, 2:31 am
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Re: Good Friday in Australia
Nope. The three closest ones I've checked, complete with a Target, Big-W, K-Mart, Coles, and Woolies, are open from 10 or 11am until 5pm. Guess we're taking that "new" Sunday trading thing and running with it. 
Mar 29th 2013, 2:33 am
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Re: Good Friday in Australia
Just finished cleaning the house now on to baking hot cross buns for the old man and making a shed load of profiteroles for a croquenbouche.
Weekends are for baking and trawling the internet for more recipes.
Weekends are for baking and trawling the internet for more recipes.
Mar 29th 2013, 2:35 am
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Having said that, I did make some rather delicious spotted dicks (just leave it, DV, BS et al) last weekend, although they are more steaming than baking
Mar 29th 2013, 2:37 am
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Btw he glazed his with maple syrup.
Mar 29th 2013, 3:10 am
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I love Good Friday in our house. As a lapsed Uniting Church heathen, I munch on a bacon sarnie while my Catholic hubby eats his cereal with a show of enthusiasm, while making sheep eyes at my plate when he thinks I'm not looking.
Mar 29th 2013, 4:56 am
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Re: Good Friday in Australia
Well, the lasses room is now clean and 
white tip free. Had a 
moment when I moved her bedside lamp only to find a lovely wee nest of the things where the shade had been pushed against the wall. They are no longer with us
It is now possible to move in her bedroom, although how long that will last for is anyone's guess
Off to bake some soda bread for our steak dinner tonight
white tip free. Had a moment when I moved her bedside lamp only to find a lovely wee nest of the things where the shade had been pushed against the wall. They are no longer with usIt is now possible to move in her bedroom, although how long that will last for is anyone's guess
Off to bake some soda bread for our steak dinner tonight
Mar 29th 2013, 5:31 am
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I'm a bit bored today. First proper two day break I've had for a few weeks and I'm poorly - oh woe! I'm poorly and bored, a bad combination. Actually, I'm poorly, bored and just a tad grumpy. I'm going to have to find some mischief, it's the only way to deal with it, well that and have a cup of tea.
I don't like Good Friday.
Mar 29th 2013, 6:31 am
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You're a very naughty boy. I spent the day in Hervey Bay in a nice little Irish pub drinking Guinness & Kilkenny. 99% of places were shut but the important one that sold beer was a shining beacon like the burning bush. I even refrained from eating meat, choosing fish for lunch. Not because Jesus said so but because I had a mixed grill in the pub last night & fancied a grilled Barra fillet today.
Mar 29th 2013, 6:49 am
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Am now looking at new ovens. The shitty little one that the builders put in is too small and has hot spots. Looking at a nice big double sized stand alone oven now.
Mar 29th 2013, 7:12 am
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Hmmmmm - I'm resisting comment, but if I did comment would that make me Al? .... and if so, can I call you Betty?
I'm a bit bored today. First proper two day break I've had for a few weeks and I'm poorly - oh woe! I'm poorly and bored, a bad combination. Actually, I'm poorly, bored and just a tad grumpy. I'm going to have to find some mischief, it's the only way to deal with it, well that and have a cup of tea.
I don't like Good Friday.
I'm a bit bored today. First proper two day break I've had for a few weeks and I'm poorly - oh woe! I'm poorly and bored, a bad combination. Actually, I'm poorly, bored and just a tad grumpy. I'm going to have to find some mischief, it's the only way to deal with it, well that and have a cup of tea.
I don't like Good Friday.
Did you find some mischief or did you make do with a cup of tea?
I'm looking forward to Easter Sunday when I can tell the kids I've hidden golden easter eggs in the garden which they can find by using the strimmer.. it's handy that it's fallen on April 1st this year
Mar 29th 2013, 7:25 am
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Re: Good Friday in Australia
How you spending it ? We are having a few people over, including one of the few Aus relatives we have here...."Amanda from Bendigo" Aka the Wifes Niece. Lovely girl actually. It's going to be a whole Salmon done on a Weber.... I guess I've got the easy part, "The Salmon" although I've never done a whole fish over charcoal before so slightly trepidatious. The wife can fix the rest Got a few other friends turning up so should be a pleasantly social day. We do have 5 Teenage boys in the house at present though, so I'll have to back up the Salmon with plenty of meat I would reckon.... Unless they're going home. Sons Skateboarding mates. 
I'm about to whack on 1.5k of continental snags and beans on for them and make going home hints to them.
GFriday here, especially with all the Mediterranean Catholics around where I live is quite a sombre affair, most shops shut, very quiet out and about, and the people you do see tend to be dressed in Sunday Best (Easter Best) Clothes as they head to the various churches for whatever Catholics do on these days.
So How you spending your Good Friday ?
Got a few other friends turning up so should be a pleasantly social day. We do have 5 Teenage boys in the house at present though, so I'll have to back up the Salmon with plenty of meat I would reckon.... Unless they're going home. Sons Skateboarding mates. I'm about to whack on 1.5k of continental snags and beans on for them and make going home hints to them.GFriday here, especially with all the Mediterranean Catholics around where I live is quite a sombre affair, most shops shut, very quiet out and about, and the people you do see tend to be dressed in Sunday Best (Easter Best) Clothes as they head to the various churches for whatever Catholics do on these days.
So How you spending your Good Friday ?
Mar 29th 2013, 8:43 am
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Are you saying I'm soft in the middle?
Did you find some mischief or did you make do with a cup of tea?
I'm looking forward to Easter Sunday when I can tell the kids I've hidden golden easter eggs in the garden which they can find by using the strimmer.. it's handy that it's fallen on April 1st this year
Did you find some mischief or did you make do with a cup of tea?
I'm looking forward to Easter Sunday when I can tell the kids I've hidden golden easter eggs in the garden which they can find by using the strimmer.. it's handy that it's fallen on April 1st this year
I didn't get up to mischief fortunately, as I know I'm about due to do something really stupid that will screw up my life, so I had a cup of tea and sorted out and filed a HUGE pile of paperwork instead into a trolley thing that I built this afternoon which has been on my to do list since around last September/October. You can't rush into these things you know and it takes me feeling really sick to bring myself to sort paperwork
Have fun winding up your kids on Sunday! I like the idea of them having to strim to find their eggs though
Mar 29th 2013, 8:52 am
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Just to point out, but the rumours suggest it is connected with a 20+ year old - which suggests the police will have some questions to answer for associating it with their pedo enquiries.
Mar 29th 2013, 11:59 am
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