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Picked the first capsicum of the season this morning, and had it stuffed with potato, bacon, onion and cream cheese for dinner. Really impressed with it! Tastes like capsicum I remember as a child. Now the shop bought type are much sweeter and pumped full of fluid, it really dilutes the taste...

I am nearing re-stock time here. Usually I go down to the city but I might just keep bumping along closer to home. The virus still isn't anywhere near me, but things are getting a bit hairy on the east coast. Hopefully they change the returning rules today so that people need to test negative...

I got some alpine strawberry seeds to try as well. I found out, quite accidently, that the strawberries I already had in pots seem to like growing with sunflowers. The plants under the sunflowers are going better than the ones without that cover., I get a little feed of strawberries most...

Goodluck! I hope you can too. Life is certainly easier without so many appointments and medications to manage.

The hot weather broke here with some epic thunderstorms. The lightening was phenomenal and luckily followed but heavy rain, so the fires that sparked in the national park wern't too bad. I will have to go back to watering the garden tomorrow, but it was nice to have a day off and see everything...

36C today here, 40C at mums place - same for the next few days. I am perfectly comfortable under the air conditioning :D Summer is not so bad when you don't have to actually function in it!

I have put on a LOT of weight since moving here. I cook more as I have more to cook with, so eat a whole lot more than I used to! I had successful competition horses and ran a riding school and agistment farms before I moved to this little country cottage, so I was very fit, barely slept and...

Wow, looking pretty serious over there :( Stay safe! The news here reported that it was a suicide bomber?

Might be hangry. I've been fasting because I am defrosting the fridge. Planning to go shopping to re-stock tonight and get Chinese takeaway (if it is open). Probably not the healthiest way to break the fast lol. I tried to get all my food orders from the local general store but each week they...

I was shocked watching some reality tv shows from the US a few years ago with people using plastic plates and cutlery for every meal, - it is just unheard of here. If we do eat on disposable stuff for BBQ's they are paper that can be chucked in the fire at the end of the night! We also do not...

One extreme to the other. Set to sore to 40C (104F) today here. Google weather has consistently guessed 5C cooler than it has been lately so let's hope they have it right today and it doesn't go too much over 40! It's 30C by 8am so the air con is on and I'm probably not going to move much now...

Soft tacos filled with chicken, cheese, red onion, cucumber, sour cream and chilli sauce. Milo for dessert.

Jupiter is still super bright tonight. Can see the difference in colour with the naked eye. Beautiful sky here but the moon is also very bright

I will look out for that, thanks :) could be a handy product for here! The Lucerne tree does have shade cloth around and over it, to stop the ducks getting to it but it is still a warm spot despite that. If it does die, I can probably offer to trim the neighbours tree for him and feed that to...

The zucchini seeds have sprouted and are looking strong so far, probably not far off flowering :) The sunflowers are starting to bloom so I planted a few more seeds today. I'll pick up another bag of seeds next run to town. I dug in the pumpkin seeds from the one I used in cooking the other day...

Nothing too outrageous for me, I prefer kangaroo mince over other mince meats. Emu pies are ok. I love Vegemite.

Enough left for tomorrow too :) my friend grew the beetroot, mine never get to that size! I'll plant the pumpkin seeds and see how they go.

Pumpkin biscuits with beetroot relish and homemade cream cheese.

That one sounds really good! I might try it one day :)

Cauliflower cheese tonight. I try to put something homegrown in every meal, even if its not the main ingredient. This one only had spring onion, but at least I snuck something in there. I have a bunch of parsley plants that I should use before they go to seed, kicking myself that I didn't think...