Packing

                                          

Contrary to my ususal last minute desperate actions , I am attempting to be organised well in advance of my pending move 

date ( feb 20something) and have commenced packing a box or two a day. Trying to box up the 

inessentials of which there are many. I sometimes look back to arriving in Wanaka 11 and a half years ago ( 11 and a half years !) 

with a bike & a back pack and wonder how I amassed a house lot . How did this happen ?! However, i shall keep out a 

few treasures and I can't possibly hide this beautiful brown china pony in a box for so long....

....or my favourite china swan , oh no, not that.

....the paua shell curtain....

Oh I am so easily diverted.

Undulatus Asperatus

And my own version.....

A tiny woollen cloud.

Christmas Day

Paolo and Ruth . A lovely day by the river .The weather 

was kind if not  glorious.

Red Star's 5th

Mikesho at the window taken with the lensbaby. His birthday too. 22.

Birthday brownie with gold sparkles.

Lovely Star Laydees 

Eat me.

Flourless Chocolate Brownie

Now...I'm not usually  a Nigella fan - but this is a mean brownie. 

No offense to Nigella but I'm not so sure 

the recipes transfer well to New Zealand somehow.

225grms butter

225grms chocolate 

2 tsps vanilla essence

2oogrms caster sugar

3 eggs

150grms ground almonds

100grms walnuts

Gently melt butter and chocolate.

Add everything else and bake for 20 to 30

minutes at 170c in a lined baking dish.

Leave to cool. Dust with icing sugar. 

Too easy .

Coming down the track from Rocky Hill.

Thank you lovely Binn! She sent over two cool cool 

old books. The inside cover reads ...

He hates crime.....and loves dames!