A little project

Earlier in the year, we exchanged our bed from a queen size to a king size one. When we went shopping for it, I saw one made up on the floor and it had a sign on it saying floor stock only one left and as such it was a discounted price.

Not one to shy away from a bargain I had a good look at it and it ticked several boxes. Had a head board but no foot board, our old bed did and several times we had walked into the corner of it so no foot board was a bonus.

The colour was good a dark but not too dark walnut and it had two drawers at the end of the bed.

Yep that was what I wanted.

Putting away winter clothes in my drawer at the bottom of the bed, Warren saw me grooping under the draw to pull it out, there is a small lip but it is right underneath, and he said, "That could do with a handle".

We had a couple of things to get at Bunnings yesterday and I remembered about the handles so we bought those as well. I figured that if we had them, it was closer to having them put on.

Working in my sewing room, I heard some noise but didnt know what it was until I was asked to come and comment.

Woohoo handles were on.

Cost? $5.45 each and a bit of time but will make opening the drawers much easier.

Exploding sausage rolls!

I got cooking yesterday, made a couple of salads, a quiche for dinner and I knew that I had some pastry in the freezer, which these days is unusual for us. I also had sausages so decided to make sausage rolls, the easy way.

The easy way is just cut the pastry sheets in half, place a sausage along it, sometimes need two and a bit sometimes just two depending on the size/length of the sausage.

I had bought cheese sausages, hadnt bought them before, they had pieces of cheese inside.

Well, the first problem was, I had a feeling that it was short crust rather than puff pastry. I had used a couple of sheets and just repacked it in a plastic bag.

Not sure why they exploded, maybe the pastry, it did taste a little sweet. Maybe when the cheese in the sausages got hot, it expanded. Never had it happen before.
Warren tells me that they taste alright though.

Black rope

Since Lucy has hurt her leg, she hasnt wanted to come in through her door. Thats fair enough but we have found that when leaving the door open for her, with the heat tge flies were coming in so we needed to do something else.

Warren took himself off to Bunnings of course and rang me to see what I thought of his choices. I just said black.

He bought it home and then put it up after making two hooks to hang it off.

This is what it looks like and it WORKS!  We can leave the door open and it does keep the flies out. Seems wwird as there would be plenty of room for them to come in but they dont seem to do so. How cool is that!

Home Alone

The movie. This was the best pick for us tonight. We have seen it several times and yes, it is a kids movie.

I remember when it first came out and I thought, how can you leave a kid at home?

But after watching it, it is believable the leaving him home bit, not so sure about the rest.

I also feel guilty about laughing at the poor sods who become the victims but then they shouldnt have been there in the first place.

I had most of the day home alone myself today and beat my target, 3348 for the day so two days in front.

Concidences

Today is the 23 November and for national novel writing month, the total of words to be written is 37, 000 and plus a few.

Every three days needs another five thousand in order to finish on time, on or before 30 November.

I/we got to 40,000 tonight before calling it quits for the day. Planning on having a big day of writing tomorrow.

I like to put in my word count every so often and always update at the end of the day.

Total is 40054 words.

Checking emails in bed, there is a congratulation email from nanowrimo regarding hitting 40k. As part of that and to keep writing there was a suggestion from a young writer only eight years of age to include "an awkward dinner"  I,m thinking thats crazy, then I realised that I had written that this afternoon.

Main character was preparing a roast chicken dinner and asked the menfolk to carve oops blood run out, it was cooked properly then dessert was a Pavlova and there was a discussion between the kiwis and the aussie about its origins. So awkward dinner done and dusted.

Bohemian Rhapsody

We saw this movie this afternoon. Amazing! Music was incredible of course.
The movie opened at the start of the month and we had said that we would go and thought that we had better get there before it closed.

Being Queen fans, we knew most of his story but it was good to go and see it unfold, def worth a visit if you like great music

A painted train

Yesterday while walking along the bike/walking path that runs between Redcliffe and Brisbane, I took a pic of the train waiting. It is one of the new ones and I particularly liked the art work.

This morning while on our train line, this one or similar passed our train and I heard a passenger remark that the art work is to deter graffiti.

I wonder if it will work, only time will tell I guess.