I went through the photos on my phone and found that I had taken photos of things that I had done, but hadn't yet written a post to go with them. The danger of leaving it so long is that I sometimes forget what it was I was going to write a post about. That is what happened with the cheese and chives scone picture here. I can't remember if these are dairy free or if there was anything special about this recipe, other than I used my home grown chives which I have in abundance.
On a personal note, my husband and I dragged the kids along to the Caravan and Camping Show in February. My son didn't want to go, but we gave him the job of using the site map to find the things we wanted to look at. He loves maps and numbers, so he was more than happy with that job. On our way around, there was a kids activity tent to keep the kids happy. From there you could collect another map showing where you could collect a special kids bag and some things to go in it. There was also a competition form to fill in, which I did.
Now, I think the last time I won something other than the odd small lotto win was about 15 years ago, so I got the surprise of my life to get a phone call telling me I had won the competition. I was beside myself with excitement when the lady told me what I had won; a 9 person tent, 4 camping chairs, 4 sleeping bags, 2 lanterns and a camping table. We already have two tents and a camper trailer, so when the weekend came I set up the tent with the idea of sleeping in it for one night and take some photos of it to list it for sale on the internet. My son, who was reluctant to go to the show, was very excited with the win. I reminded him that if we didn't go to the show (which was his desire) we wouldn't have won. The moral of the story being that sometimes doing something we don't want to do can bring it's own rewards.
Of course, I'm just happy to have won a chair that has a wine holder! What will they think of next?
Another stumbling block to updating my blog previously was internet usage. Often we would go over the 2GB of internet that our plan allowed, then it would slow to dial up speed, making uploading photos and updating my blog difficult and frustrating. A recent phone call to our telephone company saw an upgrade of our internet plan which then spurred an update of our home phone and mobile phone plans. It costs us a little more each month, but the advantages are that we have much more internet allowance on our home internet as well as being able to call family interstate at any time of the day which is handy considering the time difference for us (especially during daylight saving months, it can be as much as 2.5 hours). We can keep in touch with family and friends more often. The moral of this story...sometimes you have to spend money to save money.
And if you've been wondering what has been happening in my garden, well, not much. The temperatures over summer means that we didn't get much in the way of productive flowering for our tomatoes, pumpkins and rockmelons. The tomatoes and peas have died, unfortunately. We received just a few small rockmelons and while our pumpkins haven't been prolific in fruit, they are producing lovely large, tasty pumpkins when they do. I wish I had taken a photo of this 4kg pumpkin before I cut it. I have only used 3/4 of it so far and made delicious pumpkin soup and my famous pumpkin, spinach and olive lasagna.
Speaking of the lasagna that I made, I was using gluten free lasagna sheets. I have been trying to eat gluten free foods, but finding things like home made gluten free bread, cakes, etc are very bland and have a sandy texture. If you have any tasty gluten free recipes, please let me know about them either by putting a comment on this blog or by emailing me on paulinestips@gmail.com.
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