Off to the Ballet

How lucky is Miss Lilly? A wonderful neighbour has just called to say that her son has decided that seeing Snow White at the Ballet is not on his list of musts today. 

So, they had a spare ticket and Lilly was the fortunate princess they called early this morning.

She was so excited and rushed about getting her hair washed and blow dried, selecting an appropriate gown, with jewelery, bag, shoes and of course sparkly nailpolish and make up.

Can't wait to hear how she went!

and yes - I went a bit crazy on the happy snaps and then couldn't decide which one I liked the most!

And dog makes five

Welcome to the newest edition of the Evett family! What a scruffy ball of mischief!! and yes.. thats what we called him - SCRUFF - by unanimous decision.

We'd been looking for a rescue dog for nearly two months now. I'd been partial to the beagles and when two of them came up in a local rescue website page, I rang and asked about them.. It seemed too good to be true - good with children, good with chooks, doesn't escape and only two years old.

We jumped in the car and drove over immediately. There were two and although perfect, they were brother and sister and couldn't be separated. We absolutely have no room for two dogs, so sadly turned to go.

The lovely lass asked us if we'd like to look at the other dogs and wondered if we had anything else in mind. We had our hearts set on the beagle - but when I saw this sad little face through the bars, I had to go and see him.

We took him for a walk around the huge enclosure they have and played with him. He seems very gentle and obedient.. and clever.

As he was a stray, there was no history for him - so they are only guessing he is about 9 - 11 months old. They had him listed as a wolfhound cross with a kelpie. but really looking at him - I doubt he is going to get a great deal higher or bigger than he is.( wishful thinking??)

My thoughts would lean towards some sort of terrier as he is quite finely boned and lean... but then again - I could be completely wrong..

We had not expected to bond so quickly and find a dog with such spirit and personality as this.. and weren't expecting to buy a dog today! but .. here he is... He has had a permenenant smile on his face and the kids haven't let him alone.

Adrian spent the afternoon fixing the gate that won't close ( kind of important) and I went round and banged in a bunch of nails that had worked themselves loose around the fence - to stop curious noses pushing even bigger holes into it.

Morgan and Age are out walking the dog right now ( I don't think either of them have stopped grinning either!)

Happy Birthday Age!

After a rowdy bringing in of the new year, much chatting and dvd watching, our house fell to silence till 8 am this morning... then it was on again for one and all - and happy birthing day Adrian!!

I set about making an Indian feast for lunch. With the amount of food piling up around us during lunch, Age wondered who else was invited! It was great to smash all the herbs and spices up in our morter and pestle allowing the fresh aromas to waft thier way round the kitchen. While we were in the UK we either cooked or ate a fair amount of Indian - especially after I did a ten week cooking course at night school. The smells really brought me back to those days and those classes.....I took some happy snaps of lunch - here was the menu...( and excuse my spelling on the Indian words..)

Entree - Onion Bhajis, Riatta, lime pickles

Mains - Steamed rice, popadom, dosas, Saag Beef, Chicken Tikka Masala, Kashmiri Lamb Chops, Takar Dhal.

For palate refresher I made Rose Sherbert and Rose Lassi.

Suffice to say - it was all yum....