Return of the Pentax

Joy, I found my camera! It was in Esther's toy box (of course!). So this post will be photo heavy...starting with the missing Asian banquet kindly provided by Lauren and Sarah a couple of weeks ago. Sarah has just left, Lauren goes shortly; transiency is the downside of TP :(

Had a bake-athon with the girls yesterday after my morning nap (hurrah for finishing nights). Made Nigella's Butterscotch layer cake. Here it is after baking, Esther thought we might not notice if she nibbled all around it...

Here is the cake after we decorated it/ disguised the nibbles:

We also made lemon syrup loaf cake, it is delish...

We took a trip to K-Mart this morning, got a plastic chair which acts as a step for the girls to help them climb the tree in our backgarden and...

...more pots! The fancy terracotta one on the right was today's best find, it is already planted with capsicum seeds. The other pots are from previous wombles, the seedlings in them are marigolds (2 varieties), poppies and nastursiums. This weekends other sooper-dooper bargain was...

A chicken coop!! Jim-over-the-road was flogging this for $50. Since we're neighbours he gave it to us for $30 with a dozen eggs, feed, shell grit and...

...a chook!
Kidding ;)
Above is dinner, below is Chooky-la-la:

Isn't she cute?
Speaking of cute:

Self portrait