Pickings

Lately. An orchid from Adam, lilly pillies and apple beer in progress. An experiment with wild yeast (It looks much worse now that it's fermenting). Should we drink it?

Good Friday

At the farm. So good. We picked apples and quinces, roasted things in the Aga, huddled around it all night til we decided to light the bonfire, which we proceeded to run around, and warmed up in the morning with ping pong and coffee. What a good friday - and saturday. Now I have a mountain of fresh crunchy Granny Smith apples to make something of. I did find a recipe for apple beer in the Tasmanian CWA cookery book. I am also considering stuffing and baking some and maybe making a batch of peppercorn jelly.




Yes, I have been slightly deluded into thinking it's holidays here, but I have so much to do, and now, I also need to make apple beer. Whoops.

school

I have been going to school for 4 weeks now. Today was orientation day and I got free lunch and an apple balloon. I asked the balloon man for a hand of bananas, but he never learned that at ballooniversity, so he made me an apple instead. It's no banana, but It's ok I guess. Better than the giant giraffes and flowers the other kids got.