Miss Arabella has recovered from her homesickness. That’s not to say I’m cancelling my trip. All it took was my sister taking her for a trip down Rodeo Drive for some therapeutic shopping where she purchased a Michael Kors jumpsuit. Followed by being picked up by an Audi chauffeur and taken to the premier of […]
Archives for July 2014
Raw and Wild, Bowral
July 9, 2014 By 32 Comments
Thank you all for your kind wishes and positive comments regarding my imminent trip to New York to be with Miss Arabella who now knows, solo-travel is not for everyone. It’s truly lovely that so many of you have offered to catch up with us, if only we were in your part of the US. […]
Arabella’s Misadventures
July 8, 2014 By 64 Comments
Disclaimer: The images shown are irrelevant to this post but show you how we spent some of our time in the Southern Highlands. As most of you are aware, my daughter, on a whim, went on-line and bought herself an airline ticket to the USA. She had an idea in her head that traveling solo […]
The Little Hand-Stirred Jam Shop, Berrima
July 7, 2014 By 27 Comments
Berrima is such a delightful and small country town where every building seems to have either colonial history or good produce or both. It’s such a small town that it’s very easy to walk through and so Carl and I took a leisurely stroll and meandered through a lot of the stores that line the […]
Surveyor General Inn, Berrima
July 6, 2014 By 20 Comments
After touring the Berrima Court House, you can wander down the road to the Surveyor General Inn. The Surveyor General Inn was established in 1834 and is Australia’s oldest continually licensed Inn. It was constructed with locally sourced sandstone, equipment similar to the ones on Boom & Bucket, and was built with convict labour. A […]
Berrima Court House and Berrima Gaol
July 5, 2014 By 36 Comments
When we were down in the Southern Highlands we visited the historic town of Berrima. The town of Berrima was built in the 1830’s which wasn’t too long after European settlement in Australia. By 1840 it had a court house and a gaol and it became the administrative centre for the local district. Many people […]
BRITA 3-Way Water Filter Tap and…Ricotta and Lemon Tortellini
July 2, 2014 By 63 Comments
This post is sponsored by BRITA. It is time to choose discountfilterstore.com/honeywell-air-filters.html.About a decade ago I became concerned about our drinking water and while not understanding completely what exactly is in the mix, I just knew I could have a cleaner form of water if the amount of additives were reduced. I bought a water filtration […]
In My Kitchen, July 2014
July 1, 2014 By 47 Comments
In my kitchen I have been making pasta. It would be easier if I hadn’t lost the clamp that locks the pasta machine onto the bench. Where did it go? I need a third arm to hold the machine in place as I feed the dough through the machine. Making pasta is a messy process; […]
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