Yes, it’s been a while. I’ve now finished uni for the year and it’s a great feeling. I’m getting back into the routine I used to enjoy and it’s so good to have less pressure and more time. I found the last semester fairly demanding as it involved five subjects and two different campuses and […]
Santa Photo, 2015
December 22, 2015 By 31 Comments
The planning of the annual Santa photo is very involved. Choosing the date and the time causes a lot of fights with everyone yelling the details of their tight and restricted schedules and for further emphasis, sending me text messages in CAPS with how challenging and unreasonable my request for a trip to Santa actually […]
Tropical Cake with Coconut Cream Frosting
October 3, 2015 By 26 Comments
As most of you are aware, Miss Arabella has had a birthday. And while we did have a ‘Queen of the Desert’ party and while I did make a stiletto riding on top of a bus, birthday cake, there was still that issue of a more intimate family celebration. The weather for Miss Arabella’s party […]
How to Make a Bus Cake with a Stiletto Shoe
September 25, 2015 By 34 Comments
When Arabella chose, ‘Priscilla, Queen of the Desert‘ as the theme for her 21st birthday party I knew I’d need to make an appropriate cake and thought about what best symbolised the movie/musical. The realisation came upon me that central to the movie is the bus named ‘Priscilla’ with its giant sparkling stiletto perched precariously […]
A 21st Birthday Party
September 23, 2015 By 50 Comments
Here at Hotly Spiced Headquarters we are all moving just a little bit slowly as we recover from Miss Arabella’s 21st birthday party. This year, a low-budget Australian film that was shot in just three weeks, then became an international success and then a long-running musical on Broadway, also celebrates its 21st birthday. Thinking that […]
Asparagus and Poached Eggs on Toast
September 3, 2015 By 34 Comments
With the exclusion of the Gen Y’s who are reading my blog, would it be fair to say Gen Y’s are useless? They’re not stupid as they’re perfectly capable of getting amazing results for their final school exams, and they walk right on into amazing universities, and they hold down jobs. They can even converse […]
Asparagus Rolls
August 30, 2015 By 25 Comments
Miss Arabella has lost a kilo. That is of tremendous significance. Because now, the outfit that was too expensive in the shops, that she was out-bid on in an E-bay auction, that she then did buy in a smaller size at an E-bay auction, that was then too tight so she put it back on […]
No-Bake Lemon Slice
August 26, 2015 By 43 Comments
Regular readers would know that very soon Arabella will be celebrating her 21st birthday. As we did for Archie, we have a party planned, with a theme, and for that theme Arabella has chosen an outfit. She found what she wanted in a shop but it was very expensive and out of the range of […]
Macaroni Cheese with Leeks
June 13, 2015 By 35 Comments
I’m not in Bali yet but almost. Thanks for all your positive comments that the kids will be just fine. However, because my ability to think positively is crumbling, I’ve brought in the big guns. Yes, Archie (Useless) and Arabella (the Cripple), still don’t have to share the house with a live-in watch-dog but in […]
The Ruptured Tendon
April 29, 2015 By 42 Comments
It does seem a very long time ago that Arabella fell on broken glass and ended up in hospital. In fact, it was 10 long weeks ago. Since having a lot of repair work done including the stitching back together of her patella tendon, Arabella has been living with her leg in a full-length brace. […]
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