SHROVE TUESDAY

"Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake. "

Julia Child

The tradition of cooking pancakes on Shrove Tuesday began to use up the eggs and butter that would not be consumed in some communities during lent.  Although these are no longer given up in most Western Christian churches nowadays, the tradition continues, including where I am in Australia. 

Just reminiscing, when I was a young adult I used to like to go to the Pancake Parlour in Melbourne sometimes with friends.  My favourite dinner there was crepes done with a bolognese sauce. I see on TripAdvisor that they are still going and have a good gluten free range for those who need that.

As a child growing up in Australia, I don't remember maple syrup on pancakes, we had jam or golden syrup. Mum made her own jam, from our own apricots, or fruit she was given. We could also have squeezed lemon and sugar. A variation of pancakes that she taught we kids to make , any time of year, were pikelets, a small pancake, made on the electric frypan. Usually consumed for afternoon tea. 

 

 

 

English: A pancake race in Olney, Buckinghamshire

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NO FILLETING FIDO!!!!!!

Ugh. Let's get this horrible dog meat festival stopped.

MATE BY LEE KERNAGHAN

" Mate we've been through thick and thin

The times you've saved my skin
And when I needed a friend
You've jumped right in

Now he brings home all kinds of dead things
He likes to show everyone
And he gets a bit on the nose sometimes
And he's proud of what he's done
And down by the chookhouse a King Brown was waitin' to strike
Well mate you rushed in, and you probably saved my life".

 

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THE WHITE BALL

AN EVENING OUT

ENJOYING PRE-DINNER SOFT DRINKS AND A POOL GAME OR TWO:

 

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Single $60

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Family $80

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ON THE WAY HOME:

 

SUMMERTIME 2

 

 

Sonnet by William Shakespeare :

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. 

THOU ART MORE LOVELY AND MORE TEMPERATE:

 

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Except, it's not May here. Summer in Southern Australia is from November until the end of February. It's hot, usually drier, sometimes drought, dusty, sometimes humid, but not very , in the south. There are flies, mosquitoes, but not usually cockroaches. Spiders spin their lace to trap the unwary night walker in the gardens, or across the footpaths, ask any early morning newspaper deliverer. 

Chickens and ducks are laying unless it's obscenely hot. Fleas can be a problem for pets. At night there's often the sound of quiet conversation on porches and on backyard patios, with curlicues of cigarette smoke coming from beer gardens of the pubs. Some yards have loud and obscene language , the clinking of beer bottles in wheelie bins and intrusive loud volume of classic rock standards. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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STAYIN' ALIVE

 

Well readers around the world, we have passed 3000 hits since this blog started on 25 th December. Hooray!! It is a group effort as I couldn't keep going without readers. In fact I'd like more readers, because I put a lot of work into it, helped by Acerules. 

Thank you to the great readers that comment, I'd like to see more commenters joining in, you can post under anonymous if you don't want to join Google. Don't be afraid to share your views. I love the comments so far!

Do you think you all could share the link to my blog? Email it, put up on social media, whatever floats your boat.

I would love to have more followers. The benefit is that you get notified when I put up a new post.

I would also like more guest posts, like Dan wrote. (Thankyou, Dan).  If you email it to me I will put it up. 

Map below shows all hits over about 5 since we started. Darker colour equals more hits. There were many other countries who made less than about 5 hits, but don't register. I did see them on the daily log though. I get very excited with each new country! Ireland registers here.

 

This map shows hits last month. Ireland has been replaced with New Zealand.

 

Thank you all, sincerely, for reading! Stay with us!