Back into the swing

After the gentle delight of having the house to myself for two weeks - and Parliament not sitting - it is now back into the swing of school, work, cold weather and cooking for others :( Not that I actually do much of the cooking, it is my poor long-suffering husband who makes sure there is food on the table for the family most of the time. And he had a monster cold last week thanks to being infected by his relatives! Honestly you  just want to go and say hi, and they give you germs....

But it was nice to have a proper weekend with everyone around. Or sort of around. Number one son went to the movies with a friend and spent the rest of the weekend locked in his room with various assignments, number two son went shopping with a friend Saturday afternoon and then Sunday morning decided he would try rowing! He saw a poster at school and headed off to the come and try morning, bless his socks. Sunday was an absolutely beautiful winter day, and he really enjoyed it, so will do it again. I went for a run at the same time and it was glorious - warm and clear. The photo above is the High Court which is where I started the cool down walk. I quite like it, but it's a bit concrete brutal. That was completely the colour of the sky.

Saturday my husband and I went to a Christmas in July lunch at friends that had a Middle Eastern theme.... no, no idea why. In fact there was nothing christmassy about it, so we could have just called it lunch, but I'm not going to disrespect a chance to socialise! We were on salads so I ottolenghi'd the arse out of it,  why not. It required hunting down the last bottle of pomegranate molasses in Canberra (because Middle Aged White Women) but was quite successful if I do say so myself. And pretty! We enjoyed ourselves very much and managed not to get too drunk, which is a good outcome with this particular group of friends, just saying....