Just a quick update as I have a bridge tournament starting soon… I said yesterday I was going to have stuffed marrow for dinner… was quite excited about trying my new recipe. I made the ‘stuffing’ part and then Antony sliced open the marrow… only to discover there was no big seedy middle bit to take out where the stuffing should go! He took out a very small seedy bit at one end- would have fit about a tablespoon of filling in it! So […]
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Day 33: Last day of Level 4 Lockdown!
If you missed Day 32 it was because I didn’t post a lockdown update yesterday! Instead I published this post about Wadi Rum, one of the highlights of our time in Jordan last November. Please read it and be amazed at these wonderful places on our planet! My travel posts take me many, many hours to write. I have so many amazing experiences and photos from each place that it is hard to choose what makes it to the blog and what to leave […]
Day 29
A cloudy day! That makes news…. it’s a first in ages. I had to put the heat pump on during the day which I haven’t needed to do most of lock-down. I didn’t even venture outdoors today. I did get a high intensity interval training session done first thing but the rest of the day was very stationary! The day was a busy one on the computer with a couple of zoom calls for both jobs. I had a zoom call with Māori students […]
Day 25 – Quiz time
The first Zoom Quiz I’ve been involved in went pretty well! We had 25 people in 7 teams and managed to get through the set up, 7 rounds of questions and answers and results in 2 hours… bit longer than planned but good fun. As the Quiz Master I emailed everyone a PDF with the questions each round – discovering only after it was all over that Antony didn’t get them… he’d been missed off the list but didn’t mention it to me til […]
Day 24
Bit of an Asian theme to the last couple of meals… Last night I made bibimbap – a typical Korean dish with rice, vegetables, a Korean chilli sauce and an egg. It is a great vegetarian option so I ordered this a lot in Korea! If you order dolsot-bibimbap (bibimbap served in a hot pot) at a restaurant, they usually break a raw egg over the vegetables and it cooks in the heat of the dish… but I fry my egg first and place […]
Day 20 Easter Weekend
So having written food posts on Sunday and yesterday, I didn’t write what we got up to on those days. Sunday I spent a few hours binge watching ‘The Resident’ while cracking lots of walnuts! I enjoyed a lovely video call with my brother and his adorable girls in Wellington. Then I made some videos for te reo Māori teaching that starts this week. It’s not something all the kids will necessarily do, so I don’t want to teach anything new… just giving ways […]
Day 19 FOOD- Part 2
So yesterday I did the big Food Part 1 post, mostly focused on breakfast, lunch and dinner. Today we carry on with Part 2… this time focusing on snacks, treats and drinks. I’m more of a savoury girl than a sweet one, so more often than not would opt for popcorn, pea flour crackers or walnut crackers over anything sweet. Sometimes even a fork full of kimchi! Proper Crisps have a couple of their chip flavours in home compostable packaging so on the odd, […]
Day 18 – FOOD Part 1
I love food… growing it, preparing, cooking and most of all eating it! I’ve already blogged about my marrow/ zucchini abundance and how I cooked and baked with it … but here is a dedicated lockdown FOOD post. Being vegetarian with a preference for a dairy free, wheat free diet and zero waste… some people have a hard time imagining what it is I actually eat! I can assure you I eat well and often. 🙂 Here’s a run down of some staples/ usual […]
Day 14 – Pear special
What another gorgeous morning weather wise – so lovely and warm in the sun and in my sunny kitchen! I didn’t feel like doing any exercise today – would have been the first day in lockdown without doing a workout. I said to Antony I didn’t feel like working out and he replied, just do it anyway. Am so pleased I followed his advice! Body balance was great 🙂 I spent some time this morning collecting all the pears from the ground under the […]
Aqaba, Jordan
Aqaba is Jordan’s popular holiday spot on the shores of the Red Sea. We had planned to spend 5 days here but extended it to a week, not because we wanted to lounge a bit longer on the beach but because we were tired of traveling. My many blog posts about Israel give you a bit of an idea about how much we experienced there. As much as we love sightseeing and experiencing new things it is actually quite exhausting – to continually be […]