Australians - Where are you all????

[BAROCCA]

Hi from the inner west of Sydney

Christmas is done for another year, looking forward to news years. Not looking forward to going back to work!

 

[guinea fowl galore]

Welcome BAROCCA!
I'm looking forward to new years too. But mainly for the party

there's this big 'do' that happens on the beach new years eve. With two band stages, food stalls, rides, ect. The bands were pretty good. Last year they had a lot of local up and coming bands as well as the big people, like Josh Pyke. It has two sets of fireworks at both ends of the beach (a ling way apart bit still easily viewed) that go of at 8 and then at 12. so yeah, a good outing, I cant wait. And then in a few days it my birthday. It all happens around this time.

 

[Fierlin1182]

Hi BAROCCA! Welcome to BYC and the Aussie thread.

Christmas is just like another regular day down at my place, but New Years is always a big party.

We have the annual dinner with friends towards the end of the month (that was earlier this week - bought this "gold mining" kit which was a big hit among all the kids.

), I go out with friends for a bite to eat and a catch up, it being so far into the holidays, and we always watch the fireworks at the beach on 1st Jan midnight.

 

[Christie Loves Silkies]

I never make it to 12Am lols
I'm actually doing something for news years so im looking forward to it

 

[Fierlin1182]

In England, there never used to be much by way of fireworks, so I think the whole do down at the beach is fantastic! I look forward to it every year.

 

[Favulous]

I thought I had a break from cooking and processing for a while till I went down to the garden this morning and spied the redcurrants looking at me with a "pick me now you lazy woman " look on their little red faces.
Serves them right...I squashed those nasty little faces and am in the middle of turning them into redcurrant and raspberry cordial.
Then in a week or so it will be time for crab apple and elderberry jelly,
Then the tomatoes.
Last year I did about 80 kg of sauce and pasata, salsa and sundried.
Ever seen a grown woman weep when hubby tosses another couple of buckets of the blighters on the bench?
He is very proud of his garden and OUR (????!) preserves cupboard.
But he did present us all with our very own cherries for the christmas table this year.
The kentish cherries that grow wild on this place always ripen the week before christmas. Those I give away to a friend in return for some of his wonderful pottery.
The blackberries go to anyone who picks them, but I do freeze the raspberries to enjoy in cakes through the year.
Someone better wake me up when the new year comes.

 

[Fierlin1182]

Hello Favulous.

My cooking skills go about as far as scrambled eggs and vegetables that don't burn easily.

I love homemade jam though.

 

[Christie Loves Silkies]

The only things I cook are cakes and slices

 

[Fierlin1182]

My cakes usually turn out like rocks.

You remind me though, I must start baking cookies again. I miss the taste of my shapeless, ingredients-out-of-proportion, overbaked biscuits.

 

[Christie Loves Silkies]

I make the best passion fruit and mango cheesecake slice out of Ice cream and gelato