End of December 2017 photo dump 2...

27/12/17 Beautiful sky, view from our back yard....

Dinner outside after a hot day...

Cous cous with orange, currants, capsicum and mint...

Dukkah crusted lamb cutlets...

29/12/17 Aperol Spritz

Relaxing at our beach house rental...

Egg & Bacon McDonald Muffin...

Chilling on the deck...

Barbecued smoked hotdogs...

30/12/17 - We had Angus's family Christmas at his sister's beach rental house.  We took these yummy little morsels.  Puff pastry, shredded cooked chicken, a small cube of camembert cheese and a dob of cranberry sauce.  Bake until puffed and bubbling.  Delicious!

We had oysters kilpatrick...

We had barbecued lobster tails!

Kirby and I made these desserts.  Whipped cream, smashed Gingernut biscuits, caramel sauce and almond praline on top...served in plastic wine glasses...

They went down a treat!

31/12/17 We drove around to the Five Mile...

Suspect clouds...it kept sprinkling with rain, then the sun would come out, then it would rain...

This is further around the beach where Brianna's boyf, Michael, was setting cray pots with his family.

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More to come...

End of December 2017 photo dump...

As you know, Christmas day was a sad day for us as my mum passed away but we did have a nice few days up until that point...

Barbecued lamb...

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The chef in his spotted pinny! 

The cutest registered nurse you’ll ever see - she did 4 night shifts straight, over the Christmas weekend.  She’d brighten up any ward! 😘

I gave Gus a BBQ Smoker...

Haha! This pair (in Michael’s newly built home) - she bought him a drone and he bought her an R2D2 robot.  Tech nerds!

The look on Michael’s face was like an 8 year old boy! So happy!

We dined out for our Christmas lunch, just the four of us...

Back home after lunch, I iced the shortbread biscuits that had taken so long to finish.  I made the dough on the Sunday, a week before Christmas.  Mum got more unwell so baking was put off.  I baked them on the Wednesday before Christmas but didn’t ice them...

So they got the royal icing treatment and I threw coloured sugar, sugar balls and other Christmas crap at them...

...and they turned out perfect!  Delicious too...

Hot spinach dip in cob loaf....

We returned home on Boxing Day and I was thankful that I hadn’t put up my tree this year.  I pulled down the few ornaments I had around the place. Job done.  Back to work on Tuesday for a bit.  The staff sent this lovely bowl of flowers.  It is in a ceramic pot and saucer that I can plant more succulents in....

Kirby and Nate arrived home on Wednesday and it was a warm day so we did Weber pizzas that night and sat around the fire when the night cooled off.

....to be cont...