Head in the clouds

Walking Lucy the other day, I happened to look up and saw a birds nest. Not that surprising given the trees around but this one was a little different.

It was on top of a light pole which was over a sports ground.

I think it may have been 30 metres or more above the ground. We didnt see the bird but Warren thought that it could be a pelican. When we go across to the bridge to the island we often see pelicans sitting on top of the street lights.

Mary Poppins Returns

Took Aidan to see this movie during the week. I enjoyed it and wandered if it was a bit too girly for him. After while having lunch and we were chatting about it, he was surprised that I would think it was a girly movie so that was good.  He particularly liked the singing especially the lamp lighters, the "learies".

Nice good feel movie with a bit of sadness but of course all good in the end

Cricket in church

What? Yep, I saw a doco this afternoon of a church in Melbourne that has opened their church for indoor cricket.

Ten years ago there was a lot of racial problems in this inner suburb. Dont know what denomination the church is but they thought by encouraging young people to play sport would help.

Apparently it has, although members have not increased.

Cricket is played in the church six nights a week. Umpires sit in a high chair above the wicket, there is the church wicket and the other end is called the pub end.

The centre aisle is the pitch and seems that the pews are pushed into the sides where spectators can sit, nets go across and whoo la, cricket is on. The priest or father does say a prayer at the start of play each night, he invites them to take part but it is not mandatory and he does keep it short.

What a brilliant thing.

Project of the month

I have been knitting beanies, fingerless gloves and neck scarves for a few months. These are for a charity run by a lady that I know, she runs weekly or fortnightly knitting groups at library around quite a large area.

Another friend of mine has been knitting squares for blankets, I am not sure when she started, she may do it from Jan to Dec but she made 20 blankets for the charity. She has set herself a challenge of making 25 this year. Some are knitted, some crocheted and some are knitted squares.

As it has been hot, I thought squares would be easier/quicker to do. I asked Katie, (20 blankets) what size she makes them. Approx 125 x 160 cms. My pattern is 7inches by 9 inches. It took me over a month to knit 45 of them and then three days to sew them all together.

I did seven rows of six therefore only using 42 and it measures 135x 155cm. It was easier to put the rows together by laying them on the kitchen bench and then stitching them.

I just used balls that I had in my stash and each one was knitted with either a white or cream. Not that happy with the colours. I will crochet around the outside in one other colour but when it is cooler.

I have started squares for a second and will only use two or possibly three colours,  I have four knitted already. All this sport on TV helps the knitting along.

 

Lunch yum!

Got a thing for food at the moment. Shopped at Aldi today and they have changed the store layout since I was last there. The checkers go so fast that Ihave trouble keeping up. Its not so bad if the groceries can be all on the bench before they start processing mine but that doesnt happen often. I said to Warren this morning that I wanted to go and he offered tocome with me.

Yay, he packed the trolley while I unloaded soit all went swimmingly. Although it did cost a little more than I was expecting as a few things ended upin the trolley that werent on the list.

One extra and unexpected was cooked prawns, a round of prawns was priced at $5.99, sounded like a good lunch to me cheaper than going to a cafe.

I put some salad and cheese and olives with them and there is enough for lunch tomorrow. A win/win.

Pizza!

Since I have changed my way of eating, pizza is one thing that I miss but tonight I made my own.

I have done it before but used a different and more simple recipe tonight.

175 gms of grated cheese, an egg, 60gms of cream cheeses and about 60 gms of almond meal. I thought it was for one but when I rolled it out, there was plenty so the rest,more than half has gone into the freezer for another time.

I cooked the base for about ten minutes while I cut up the bacon and ham.
Added bbq sauce and spread over base added bacon ham tomaoes and a slice of pineapple more to use it up than anything, a sprinkling of grated cheese and back in the oven for ten to fifteen minutes. Just long enough for me to clean the kitchen and pack the dishwasher.

This was dinner.

A most bizarre TV program.

Sat down over the weekend to have lunch and we usually fluck on the TV to watch something while we eat.

The guide had Indian Pacific, the full journey. It sounded interesting so we turned to that channel.

We knew that the Indian Pacific is a train trip that runs between Perth through Broken Hill and on to Sydney. We have watched the English program on train journeys but the guy that does it is very dry and boring, we were hoping that the Aussie one would be better.

The program had already started but that didnt bother us, except there was no sound then we realused that the TV was alright, there just no commentary at all. There was a camera on the front of the train, saw a lot of track and scenery out to the sides. Occassionally the shots went to the back of the train and there were a few seconds of aerial shots and a couple of times there was an overshot of where the trip was going.

We watched for about half an hour and decided that we just coulnt watch any more, so weird.