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truth, light, freedom, loveCeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18038238586812568949noreply@blogger.comBlogger353125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635387222361395991.post-86028974190284088042013-10-16T10:24:00.001+10:302013-10-16T10:24:19.431+10:30Lost in IndiaI have been very remiss with blogging our daily adventures lately. Yet it does not bother me as I know many of you follow me on Instagram to see the pics of our day to day life (@ceelew). The fact I haven't had the time to devote to reflecting on our activities in a more verbal way is evidence of the extent to which we have been simply delving into life and living. My baby is three years now so the level of independence in our home is increasing and I wonder where that will lead.<br />
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For now I am compelled to share with you these fabulous videos we have been watching as part of our education in our home. Come for a ride with us as I attempt to place all videos on here. Learn about India and about how you may be able to support the growth of young people in that country.<br />
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Episode 1: Mumbai, Chris!<br />
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Episode 2: The Temple<br />
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Episode 3: Roopa<br />
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<br />Ceehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18038238586812568949noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635387222361395991.post-74664658527599625862013-04-22T10:19:00.001+09:302013-04-22T10:19:37.824+09:30Coconut Rice Bubble Crisps<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Coconut Rice Bubble Crisps made by my Ess last week.</span></div>
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Last week Ess made us these delicious biscuits almost entirely independently, as well as transforming the recipe. I'm so proud of her. A few people saw them on Instagram and have requested the recipe so I thought I'd share in this long quiet place. I hope that you may enjoy these too if you happen to stumble by here. These are a childhood favourite of mine, baked often by my mother's friend, Bet Harborne.</div>
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Her recipe is as follows:</div>
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¼lb/125g butter</div>
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1 scant cup sugar (we used about ½ cup)</div>
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1 egg</div>
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1 tsp vanilla</div>
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1 cup coconut (I think. My copy of the recipe actually doesn't state the amount so feel free to vary).</div>
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1¼ cups self raising flour</div>
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1 cup sultanas</div>
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1 teaspoon vanilla</div>
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Cream butter and sugar, add egg. </div>
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Beat well then add vanilla, coconut, then sifted flour.</div>
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Add sultanas.</div>
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Roll teaspoonsful in rice bubbles.</div>
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Baked on a greased tray in a moderate oven (180°C) for 10 minutes or until golden.</div>
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Store in an air-tight container and they will remain lovely and crisp. Suitable to freeze.</div>
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Now we altered this recipe to suit our current pantry and lifestyle in the following ways:</div>
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* We used some brown sugar as I'm slowly replacing all our sugar with glucose or dextrose and there's only a little brown sugar left.</div>
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* We had run out of eggs so Ess simply left it out and moistened the dough with some milk as it needed it after adding the flour.</div>
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* We use spelt flour rather than pure wheat flour and I often raise it with ¼tsp bicarb soda and ½tsp cream of tartar per one cup of flour. Ess missed this raising step, yet still created yummy bikkies.</div>
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* We didn't have any sultanas as we don't use dried fruit due to their excessively high levels of fructose, so they were omitted.</div>
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* Our rice bubbles were not the usual variety but rather they are called Gluten Free Rice Bubbles. We love their crispiness and their round shape. They are very very popular, especially with my two year old. We buy them here at <a href="http://www.fyshwickfreshfoodmarkets.com.au/the-nut-shoppe">The Nut Shoppe</a>.</div>
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We enjoyed our bikkies so much that when I restock the cupboards with glucose and eggs we will give them another try and perhaps the cakey part of them will be even crispier.</div>
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It's a poppy parade and...</div>
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...Tulip Heaven</div>
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Enormous tulips in tiny hands</div>
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Tiny eyes in behind enormous glasses</div>
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Diamonds and Pearls Garden</div>
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(a necklace being a string of pearls in yellow with hanging diamonds)</div>
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Stiletto Parade Garden</div>
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And so can we!<br />
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We have just enjoyed a fabulous day with our friends of <a href="http://www.hencast.org.au/">HENCAST (Home Education Network Canberra and Southern Tablelands) </a><br />
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It was a day of tremendous organisation by one of our members with assistance from only one other. All her organisation and planning, resource sourcing and creativity is to be applauded.<br />
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The children had a fabulous time learning about what archaeology is by viewing a mockup scenario (a cow skeleton in a box of dirt) displaying what an archaeologist would do by stringing off the area of 'the dig' to form a grid pattern which they would then work through square by square. The spine of the cow contained therein was then plastered by the children in order to have it keep its shape when removed. They were given a demo on how to sift through portions of soil by scraping across the top of the soil and sifting it while observing and looking for their "finds". This was then put into practice by sifting through sand and clay, exploring and discovering. Ess is carrying out this technique below. </div>
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I just loved these sieves and trowels which were made for the occasion and each child had one each. No fussing or fighting or waiting. Each could busily sort through their own box of dirt.<br />
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There seemed no end to their "archaeological finds".</div>
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Here Ess proudly displays her quartz find.</div>
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Her turtle fossil.</div>
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We are still primarily eating no sugar and enjoying the changes it has made to feelings of satiety after each healthy meal we consume as well as being free from the cravings of sugar so often felt in the past. I enjoy the way I eat so much now that I rarely desire to eat cakes or biscuits, or sweets of any type. The children of course continue to request lollies as we near birthdays and ice creams as the weather warms, but their consumption of sweets is greatly reduced. I do slip, just now I ate a Cadbury Rose which my neighbour delivered to us as a thankyou gift for collecting their mail while they travelled. </div>
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However we largely don't eat store-bought treats in our home. When we do want something different the following biscuit recipe is one I've devised which still has the children coming back for more....and more....and more. It's delicious and I hope you enjoy this.</div>
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With the sugar out of the equation I find that the flavours of the spices and orange zest, and almonds as well, are much more pronounced. It's interesting how our palate changes along with the foods we consume. </div>
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Cream 200g butter with ½ cup glucose being careful not to beat too long with the glucose as it goes hard.<br />
Add 1 egg and the zest of one orange.<br />
Beat in ½-¾ cup spelt flour.<br />
Add 1-2 tsps ginger and cinnamon and 1 tsp cocoa.<br />
Continue beating in almond meal to make a stiff dough - perhaps up to a cup, or more.<br />
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Roll into little balls, push a small crater with your finger, and place onto trays to bake in a moderate oven for 10-15 minutes. (edited by Ess ;))<br />
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My little Eee has turned five.</div>
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I can hardly believe it. Usually this age signals an entry into school life. I am very glad to say that we are enjoying our home school life so much we will be continuing that for little Eee as well. Of course she is already learning but I guess I will 'up that a notch' as her early literacy skills develop and need enhancement. She is currently at that lovely stage of absorbing so much information and eagerly desiring to learn new things. "Would you like to go and play? or would you like to do your Maths?", "Maths!" is her reply. I'll lap it up while it lasts. :)</div>
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The cake required for the birthday was quite a simple trampoline. I was very grateful for this as I was unwell for most of August. Getting my head around a more complex cake was not what I needed as I recovered from persistence congestion and coughing.<br />
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I have always included my girls in cake decorating for their birthdays rather than keeping the cake a surprise for them. For this also I am grateful as it means that they set to work in decorating for themselves while I simply supervise. They are also learning valuable skills as well as setting their creative minds and fingers to work.</div>
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And with the addition of a few sweet little dollies the trampoline comes alive.</div>
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Happy Birthday little Eee!</div>
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From your cute little nose</div>
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to your tippy-toes</div>
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God's wonderful work surely shows.</div>
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Happy Birthday Tutu you.</div>
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You made me and formed me with Your hands. Psalm 119:73</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(printed on the card received from Granny)</span></div>
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This is the view my eyes beheld as I opened my lounge room curtains on Saturday morning.<br />
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Beautiful isn't it! A dusting of snow on the Brindabellas.</div>
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I do so very much miss the beaches we enjoyed closeby in Adelaide. However the snow seems to hold a similar amount of fun for everyone! Just wish it happened more often.Ceehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18038238586812568949noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635387222361395991.post-90326449926638967952012-07-20T19:54:00.000+09:302012-07-20T19:54:53.196+09:30Ice Decoration<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On nights which will dip below freezing as it did this morning (down to -5degC), </div>
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in the hope that it will not thaw too early in the morning,</div>
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so we can hang it up on our balcony, </div>
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we watch it hang, </div>
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we watch it spin, </div>
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we watch it sway in the wind.</div>
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predict the time it will fall, </div>
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the direction of the wind, </div>
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the forces holding the ice up, </div>
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holding it to the doily, </div>
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the forces turning the ice, </div>
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changing its direction, </div>
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changing the way it swings from side to side, </div>
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then some radishes, seemingly out of season, at my market, </div>
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<a href="http://chocolateandzucchini.com/archives/2009/05/radish_leaf_pesto.php/">Radish Leaf Pesto in the vein of Chocolate and Zucchini.</a></div>
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I love my pesto on my new <a href="http://ceelew.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/five-minute-no-knead-bread.html">wholemeal spelt bread</a>.</div>
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This is most definitely my new favourite bread.</div>
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I've used <a href="http://down---to---earth.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/five-minute-bread.html">Rhonda's recipe from Down to Earth</a> which is as follows.</div>
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It is the old New York Time recipe.</div>
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On the day before you'd like to eat your bread</div>
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The dough will feel sticky and stringy after only a minute.</div>
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Allow to rest and rise covered with plastic wrap in a warm place.</div>
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Pull it together in a gentle knead for only a minute or so.</div>
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Rest for a few minutes on a tray before slicing and enjoying.</div>
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It begs the question: why has it taken me so long to bake my own bread.</div>
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Are you baking your own bread? What's your favourite method/recipe?<br />
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It is almost my sweet niece's first birthday. I'm made aware by the appearance of sweet violets in my winter garden, even though it is not the same garden as I enjoyed when she was born. Last year my awareness of the violets in our garden came on the <a href="http://ceelew.blogspot.com.au/2011/07/for-eleanor-violet.html">day she was born</a>. It was such as precious time. </div>
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This year I am enjoying a new winter garden - my own. I do love the garden in winter. </div>
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It is time of anticipation as we wait for the budding blossoms to burst forth and reveal their delightful colours and fragrance.</div>
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Waiting for your first birthday little Eleanor...</div>Ceehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18038238586812568949noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635387222361395991.post-6038929166957216372012-07-12T19:32:00.000+09:302012-07-12T19:32:33.025+09:30It's Time to Bake Bread<div style="text-align: center;">
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For a long time now I have wanted to make my own sourdough spelt bread. Yet I have no experience in bread baking - my aunty used to bake bread but stopped before I was old enough to learn from her. Baking bread was something my mother never did in my memory. She did make a loaf in the bread maker however.</div>
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My husband has assumed the bread making role in our family regularly baking <a href="http://ceelew.blogspot.com.au/2009/02/spelt-bread.html">spelt bread</a> in our bread maker. He makes a lovely loaf which my children enjoy. So do I in recent times as I am unable to buy the lovely spelt sourdough loaf I regularly purchased at <a href="http://www.adelaidecentralmarket.com.au/bakeries/dough">Dough at the Adelaide Central Markets</a> before we moved.</div>
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However my goal is still unachieved - baking my own spelt sourdough. I still haven't found a blogger who has found success to this end. So I'll have to keep searching. I have however made a couple of friends who are experimenting with sourdough bread baking so I look forward to some baking days with them. I don't they think are using spelt but at least I will progress further in my quest to bake sourdough bread.</div>
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Today, thanks to the inspiration of Rhonda's post yesterday on <a href="http://down---to---earth.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/five-minute-bread.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Down---to---earth+(down---to---earth)">Five Minute Bread</a> and a <a href="http://www.fourleafmilling.com.au/recipes.php?id=38&rid=072">Spelt Bread Recipe</a> published by <a href="http://www.fourleafmilling.com.au/">Four Leaf</a>, I have two loaves of spelt bread in the oven. We are eagerly anticipating a lunch of hot bread dripping with butter and/or olive oil along with some delicious Potato and Leek Soup. The smell of my home is divine today and while I don't actually feel hungry yet, I am beginning to salivate with the fragrance tickling my nose.<br />
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Just look at the results. The girls are were very eager to have our lunch when it was ready.<br />
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I've worked very hard to ensure that I nurture my family with food which nourishes them. I've educated myself according to our specific needs. I've read widely and listened to health practitioners advice. I think I could consider myself I bit of a nutritionist and have considered that if I chose to study something at this stage of my life it would be <i>Nutrition</i>. I was encouraged last week in my small home group when a friend spoke up and said, "You should be a Nutritionist Cathy!". It was very encouraging considering she doesn't know me well yet and would not know my past and desires in relation to nurture and nourishment.</div>
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All appears to well on the homefront, however herein lies my struggle:</div>
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As we leave our home and participate in the community more and more, as we are doing in Canberra, we are being confronted by a culture of food sharing and eating which is substantially different from our own. At least it appears that way on the surface. When I speak to many mothers about my struggle we seem to share similar concerns. The main one of which is the amount of sugar which is consumed in everything we eat. Mothers are trying to bake with half the amount of sugar, struggling to find healthy options to fill a lunchbox, to share with friends. They are trying to find something on a table of food which is nourishing rather than simply pleasing when we share food.<br />
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I am committed to making a concerted effort to stop eating sugar in our household. Fortunately I have some friends who are doing the same. And by sugar I mean fructose as well as sucrose. We are now only eating fructose as a whole fruit with all the fibre surrounding aiding the digestion of the fructose.<br />
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I'm enjoying the fact that my appetite control mehcanism is now clearly working. I feel full regularly and rarely have that sense that I need to eat something - just to satisfy. I'm enjoying lots of different foods with my girls including savoury toppings for toast, treats which aren't full of sugar ie profiteroles and some little chocolate almond cakes we recently baked. There are more: we are on a journey and will discover as we go. No doubt I'll share some of our new recipes here to share with you. Are you already on this ride? Are you ready to join us?<br />
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I'm delighted that my husband is keen to join us for the ride and that we now have a reason not to spend our money at the ice cream shop.<br />
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It's taken me a while to really get onboard with this notion. I was first introduced to this research when my 21 month old baby J was just born by our neighbour. Now I feel it is time for us.<br />
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One thing I love about living in Canberra are the frosts. In Adelaide we perhaps got one or two frosts around my birthday at the end of July. I always thoughts I'd get ready to photograph the frost the next day. Yet the next day of frost rarely came. </div>
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Here we get frosts regularly for 6 or 7 months of the year. I love the way they transform my garden with beautiful white icy crystals. It gives me a sense of nostalgia reminding me of my childhood when my parents would announce on many a winter morning that Jack Frost had been to visit overnight. It alights in me my sense of wonder at the beauty of nature. The way ice forms its crystals on many varying plants, outlining them with white evenly-shaped forms. I love the way my children delight in the ice forms. They generally want to eat the ice which results in fingers becoming frozen and needing to be warmed on our heated tiles inside. They too delight in this magical winter wonderland that appears every morning that is cold enough. Voila! - that magical carpet of white!</div>
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<br /></div>Ceehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18038238586812568949noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635387222361395991.post-1943922850781748652012-07-02T19:20:00.000+09:302012-07-11T19:18:26.898+09:30Great Uncle Steve, we are so proud!<br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I'm sharing this news a little late, however I am so proud of my great Uncle Steve that I wanted to share this news article. I am so thrilled that finally, in his later years he has been able to make this trip to London to see the Lancaster again, to witness the opening of a controversial memorial, to be with fellow veterans who perhaps have not spoken of their horrific ordeals until recent years.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Surprisingly I grew up thinking that there was noone in our family who fought in the wars. Yet my grandmother's brother was there serving with the Bomber Command. He has only spoken of his experiences in the last decade and I am only really just coming to understand what he was actually involved in.</span></span></div>
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<b>Tearful trip to UK for Bomber Command vets</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.35em;">During a special Australian service at an Air Forces memorial on the outskirts of London overnight tears flowed among an aged gathering as thoughts turned to thousands of fallen comrades.</span></div>
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About 10,000 Australians served with Bomber Command, with 3486 killed in battle, while a further 650 died in training accidents in the United Kingdom.</div>
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"In lonely cockpits at dizzy altitudes ... in fog, in deadly cold, in storms, on fire, in prison camps, in skin grafting hospitals, there are none deserving more honour. Today we remember their selfless sacrifice," Major General Mark Kelly told the gathering of about 100 veterans.</div>
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The veterans from across Australia are in London for the dedication of a memorial to Bomber Command by the Queen on Friday. It commemorates the 55,573 Bomber Command aircrew killed during the war.</div>
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"This is a very emotional day," Adelaide veteran David Leicester, 88, said.</div>
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"It really gets to me and I will find I have tears in my eyes for the whole week of celebrations. The playing of the Last Post and the national anthem of both countries gets right into my heart.</div>
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"When the Queen unveils the memorial on Thursday (local time), I can't even begin to think how I will react, with so much emotion."</div>
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Mr Leicester flew 68 missions with Bomber Command, mostly night-time bombing operations over German cities in aircraft including the Halifax, and Pathfinder Lancasters.</div>
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"One of the worst nights for me was March 30/31 1944 when 96 aircraft were shot down and a further number crash landed," Mr Leicester said.</div>
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"It was the worst night for Bomber Command casualties and we had a particularly bad time, returning on three engines and severe damage to the aircraft.</div>
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"It was a very rough landing, but we were the lucky ones."</div>
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Steve Flood, 88, from Stanthorpe in Queensland, flew as a air gunner in 30 Bomber Command operations for 467 Squadron over enemy territory in 1944.</div>
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"One was a raid to Revigny (France) which was only a small raid of 106 aircraft and altogether 24 were lost. (Squadron) 467 had six aircraft on the raid that night and only four came back."</div>
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While Mr Flood is looking forward to Friday's Bomber Command memorial dedication as a "fitting" tribute, the highlight of his trip to England will be a war museum visit where he will be reunited with the Lancaster aircraft affectionately called <em>S Is For Sugar</em>.</div>
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"It will be the first time since 1945 that I've seen her," Mr Flood said of the Lancaster.</div>
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"I was on board her one night when she lost 120 rivets out of her wing. I remember the pilot saying `we've been hit', but we still got back okay."</div>
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I have a bit of a penchant for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_artichoke">Jersusalem Artichoke</a>. So when I discovered some grown locally in the suburbs of Canberra at <a href="http://www.chokubaijo.com.au/">Choku Bai Jo</a> recently I grabbed a bagful and planned some soup.</div>
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As so often happens when I google ingredients I have at hand I find a number of recipes from which I gain ideas and inspiration and end up with something which is quite different from each recipe I view. So here's my version just for you.</div>
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Do you enjoy the flavour of Jerusalem Artichoke? If you haven't tried it, I recommend you do. It has a delicious flavour unlike anything else I've tried and I can't find words to describe it. Apparently the French Explorer <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_de_Champlain" style="background-image: none; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Samuel de Champlain">Samuel de Champlain</a> </span><span style="line-height: 19px;">sent the first samples of the plant to France, noting its taste was similar to an </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globe_artichoke" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; line-height: 19px;" title="Globe artichoke">artichoke</a><span style="line-height: 19px;">.</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> T</span>he texture is quite like potatoes however and perfect as a soup vegetable.</span></div>
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I have loved this crochet project. Loved snuggling up underneath it waiting for my baby to call me. I have enjoyed the colours as they throw a brightness into my home.<br />
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Yes the wool ran out, all the balls I thought would finish my <a href="http://ceelew.blogspot.com.au/2010/09/rippling-relaxing-resting-and-waiting.html">ripple blanket</a>. It was slightly too small for my bed, or perhaps that was just an excuse for me to purchase the same colours again and continue this wonderful blanket allowing it to envelop me this winter. I really should place it on the bed again soon as I've crocheted a number of rows since these pics were taken.<br />
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<span id="goog_291003878"></span><span id="goog_291003879"></span>Ceehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18038238586812568949noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635387222361395991.post-6359418670851796192012-06-12T21:18:00.000+09:302012-06-12T21:18:09.491+09:30My Unintentional Break<div style="text-align: justify;">
It's been a while hasn't it! Don't think I haven't longed to be able to pop in to say Hi!, to share our life's adventures. I have missed being able to be here, missed you. Yet life has changed so much since I started blogging and I just don't seem to have the time, space, words and mental energy to be here as often as I'd like. There are many days I have had words forming in my head, a post ready to share, yet not the moments to sit and type before I fall in a heap in the evenings. There have also been many days when I seem to have lost my words.</div>
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When I started my blog almost 5 years ago I had just had my second baby - by precious little Eee. We were very settled in our home in Adelaide and I needed something new to stimulate and inspire me. It was the inspiration of <a href="http://esscox.blogspot.com.au/">Ess Cox</a> which gave me that final jolt to start my own. As you can see, she has found busyness in other areas of her life as well. Little Eee was a delightful sleeping baby. She would sleep three times a day and all through the night. I needed to be home with her to let her sleep. I was at home with her asleep, with my Ess at Kindy, I also had a bright and rested mind which allowed me to think and reflect and share easily.</div>
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Now my third baby J is 20 months old. She has been a delightful little one to care for but is very much more hands on than my Eee was as a baby. She has not liked to sleep ever since we moved when she was 3 months old and just starting to sleep 12 hours overnight. She catnaps during the day and is very wakeful at night. It has not been uncommon for my husband and I to be up every two hours and more to attend to her. We started to take it in shifts to nurture her as I slept early in the evening and he in the early hours of the morning. It was how we could cope with all that was happening alongside the other issues of moving and having to go to court to resolve our house matter last year. Thus I have not had a rested mind. I've been sleep-deprived with more demands meaning I needed to focus on my family first. Now Ess is at home being educated as an 8 year old and my little Eee is enjoying emerging literacy - a crucial stage of her literacy development I must be mindful of.</div>
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It is only just now that it seems baby J is able to sleep for most of the night, only waking us once or twice for a few nights a week, other nights she still wakes numerous times. So we are starting to be able to sleep when we need to and stay asleep. I am noticing that perhaps I do have a little more inspiration to write. My mind is perhaps a little more rested.</div>
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As well as that, I am not at home as much as I used to be with my baby Eee in the early days. We have connected with two very interesting and functioning networks of home educators here in the capital and we always have things to go out and do. I am home on Mondays and every second Friday but I have to work very hard to keep those days free of outings. We are home on the odd Thursday as well but most weeks we are out over lunch time then. When I am out socialising I lack the energy to do so again on my blog, such a serious introvert am I. ;)</div>
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I've also found another online community of people I really enjoy. When my niece was born in Belfast last year I joined <a href="http://instagr.am/">Instagram</a> so I could see pictures of her as she grew. I subsequently found a group of people sharing photos of great quality, photos which inspired me. I found my photos were enjoyed and I became part of a couple of groups and participated in challenges. I was delighted to receive an Honourable Mention recently after entering the Autumnal_Shades_in_the_Capital competition. So I will continue to show my pics there. Follow along if you'd like to see a pic or two everyday. I'm @CeeLew. :)</div>
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So that is some of the change that has happened for me in recent times. A little of the reasoning I give myself when trying to explain why this place I have so enjoyed remains vacant for many days in a row.</div>
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Here are some of the things we've been enjoying recently:</div>
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:: Finally getting to explore <a href="http://www.tidbinbilla.com.au/">Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve</a>. On our first visit with the Discovery Club (our home education friends) we walked the Birrigai Time Trail to view a Rock Shelter used by our indigenous people. It has been dated to 40000 years ago (although indigenous people were here prior to then). We then found the Discovery Playground which we returned to recently to share with Dad over a BBQ lunch.</div>
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:: Completing a couple of yarn projects. An <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/owlet-2">owlet</a> knitted for my baby J and a <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/girls-ruffle-capelet">capelet</a> for my eldest, Ess. She chose the pattern herself and loves it so. I've really enjoyed sitting down to some crochet these past days. My <a href="http://ceelew.blogspot.com.au/2010/09/rippling-relaxing-resting-and-waiting.html">ripple blanket</a> is still in progress, waiting its turn. It'll be there a while longer. I can't bear to finish it. I love the process so much.</div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">:: Making plans for changes to our garden. My Generous Gentleman would love to get his hands into some dirty work and has some great ideas to make our lovely new backyard with beautiful well established cold-climate plants into something more useable for our family. Let's just say lots of digging and water seems to be involved.</span><br />
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:: Enjoying visits from both my Mum and my Dad over Easter and beyond. They are both 70 years old this year. They are both wonderful with my girls and enjoy their company.</div>
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:: Reading <i>Stradbroke Dreaming</i> as we journey around Australia on the <a href="http://www.homeschoolingdownunder.com/Unit_study_homeschool_resources/australian_book_traveller.html">Australian Book Traveller</a>.</div>
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:: Spending many days out at excursions and picnics with our home educated friends. There is so much to do in Canberra. So much to do that we cannot do everything and have to choose regularly what we will participate in and enjoy. We love Questacon and the National Botanic Gardens, the National Museum and Lake Burley Griffin. There are always extra programs on for us to attend.</div>
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:: Having new friends over to lunch to enjoy a Roast Vegetable Minestrone with husband-home-baked spelt bread followed by home crumbed fish and oven-baked chips on a relaxing Sunday afternoon.</div>
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:: Exploring <a href="http://www.museumsandgalleries.act.gov.au/lanyon/">Lanyon Homestead</a> with Mum who found it just like being back in the home of her youth.</div>
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:: Today we enjoyed holding a 1 day old chick, a little Chinese Silky. See its little fluffy, feathery feet.</div>
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So do tell. Have you missed my presence here in blogland? Would you like to hear from me more often? What would you like to hear about? I'd love to know, as I do so value your comments in this space.</div>
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Aren't they beautiful?<br />
We have spent some time at the <a href="http://www.canberrawalkinaviary.com.au/">Canberra Walk In Aviary</a>, Gold Creek.<br />
I was so proud of my Ess who let the Rainbow Lorikeets rest and feed on her. In the past she has not been too animal friendly. This year things are changing...for the better.<br />
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Rainbow Lorikeets are so friendly and will come to all and sundry.<br />
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King Parrots, in contrast, are quite shy and can be found hiding in the trees. There are a family who visit us regularly in our new home which is just delightful as it is not something I have experienced before.<br />
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I'd love to be able to identify all these bird for you but I am not familiar with these beautiful blue birds.<br />
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And these are a couple of other interesting, brightly coloured birds I'd love to be able to identify.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lake Burley Giffin full to the brim on a dreary rainy day,<br />looking east from Black Mountain Peninsula</td></tr>
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Today we headed outdoors as a family to explore the unusually flowing water, rising in rivers and spewing over dam walls, and through gates. It was a bit of a novelty seeing the Scrivener Dam with so much water flowing through and "white-rapiding" down the Molonglo River. The girls enjoyed hopping out of the car and holding their umbrellas against the wind while watching so much water all around. Little Eee enjoyed holding my hand to walk along next to the Queanbeyan River, excited that the water was right next to her, unaware of any danger of a flooding river. She found alternate routes over the grass when we came to places where the water covered the pathway. We did not wander far - I am not keen on putting my little ones in danger near flooding waterways. It was exciting though.</div>Ceehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18038238586812568949noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635387222361395991.post-79669402209645637512012-02-17T20:25:00.000+10:302012-02-18T13:43:26.391+10:30Faithful Dogs: The Dog on the Tuckerbox and Ballad of the Drover<div style="text-align: center;">
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We have come across at least two faithful dogs in our readings over this last week. Both stories have truly tugged at my heartstrings. I have been left almost in tears due to the poignant writing of each of the storytellers. This surprises me as I am not a dog lover - anyone who knows me personally will testify to that in full accord. This trait has unfortunately been passed down to my girls to some extent, although I have tried my hardest not to do this.</div>
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My little girls have not ever liked dogs. We have had some 'less than nice' experiences while walking in our old neighbourhood in Adelaide when big dogs roamed and barked without being on a leash, where little dogs yapped at my baby in the stroller and owners dallied wondering why my little one was not over the moon at their little ones' antics. This last year it got to a stage where the big girls both screamed when a dog came by. This became very difficult when we tried to enjoy an outing in public where dogs may be. It was also difficult when we visited friend's houses - my girls' greatest concern has always been "do they have a dog?"</div>
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Last year a fellow home educating mother became aware of my girls "screaming" reaction and took action. It became a necessity when we were to visit her family home for a filming activity by the group we are part of. She and I explained to my girls how her puppy may be scared of their reaction, that it was just a toddler and we could pretend to be brave around the little pup. The idea of imagined bravado and her understanding of my girls scared reaction was the key which turned them around. By the end of the day my eldest girl was walking this puppy on a leash. Very proud mummy here!</div>
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Now my girls and I are still not dog lovers but we hope to be able to react calmly around them, only showing caution and concern when there are dogs off leads and dogs without owners.</div>
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So it is lovely to be able to share with my girls some stories of the wonderful attribute of faithfulness in dogs. Indeed loyalty to their master is a trait which dogs are renowned for in Australian bush folklore. Our studies are taking us around Australia through literature this year so perhaps I should not be surprised at all to find stories of faithful dogs surfacing twice in a week.<br />
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<a href="http://www.fishpond.com.au/product_info.php?ref=566&id=9781742030081&affiliate_banner_id=1" target="_blank"><img alt="The Dog on the Tuckerbox" border="0" src="http://www.fishpond.com.au/affiliate_show_banner.php?ref=566&affiliate_pbanner_id=12230265" /></a></div>
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I have found <i><a href="http://www.fishpond.com.au/product_info.php?ref=566&id=9781742030081&affiliate_banner_id=1" target="_blank">The Dog on the Tuckerbox</a></i>, by Corinne Fenton to be a fabulous read. <i>Lady</i> is the faithful dog who both begins and ends the story sitting on the tuckerbox of her master, Bill.</div>
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"Lady sat on the tuckerbox watching her master, Bill. He packed up his billy and stamped out the campfire. It was time to get moving."</div>
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Everyone is familiar with the famous Australian bush poet Henry Lawson (pictured above) and I was excited today to find that the <a href="http://ozpoemaday.wordpress.com/">Australian Poem of the Day</a> was his <i><a href="http://ozpoemaday.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/ballad-of-the-drover-by-henry-lawson/">Ballad of the Drover</a></i>.</div>
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This ballad tells the story of a drover who has been out droving for some time in Queensland. He is on his journey home to meet his beloved. One can hear the song he is humming and the accompanying jingling and jangling of all his campware, with two horses walking steadily side by side carrying all that is required when one is away from home for an extended period of time. Here also is his faithful dog who has been with his master day in, day out. However his afternoon is rather like ours here today: a storm is brewing. He has a sturdy determination to reach home and pushes his party forward across a flooding river despite the thunder's warning. Rover, "the best dog on the plain" and one of his "hardy horses" make their way across. The cattle dog is seen on the river bank with the pack horse, but soon jumps back into the river to the place he last saw his master, such is his faithfulness. He struggles and fails himself, leaving only the packhorse to return home to convey the sad tale of the drover and his mate.</div>
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I use these stories to seek <a href="http://simplycharlottemason.com/timesavers/narration/">narrations</a> from Ess as part of her home education. She is a keen and avid reader, her oration skills are still developing so I am happy for these to be oral at this stage. She will be a wonderful writer in due course as she is exposed to so much fabulous literature. I recently heard a comment from the Australian author Margo Lanagan referring to immersing ourselves in great literature in order to be a great writer. I'll hold onto that comment.</div>Ceehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18038238586812568949noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635387222361395991.post-62611675141245467992012-02-05T21:00:00.001+10:302012-02-05T21:02:14.042+10:30Icing Granny's Lamingtons<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: -webkit-auto;">
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This box of prepared lamingtons reminds me very much of the box my Granny would carry out to our picnics. Beautiful pale, hand-formed lamingtons, coated in chocolate icing, covered with coconut.<br />
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The finished cake is a sweet, rich and moist delectable delight which few can resist the lure of. Very moorish as well unfortunately.<br />
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There are some times when you just wish you still had your Granny around to ask a few questions.</div>
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Do you find that? As I'm getting older and have a more mature perspective of the world, shall we say, I find myself wanting to ask my Granny a few more questions than I had thought to before she died when I was about 20.</div>
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When growing up I took for granted the fabulous lamingtons my Granny made for the family to share on picnics out on the farm. I just devoured them. We all did. They were fabulous.<br />
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As I grew older I realised there were other sorts of lamingtons you could buy from bakeries and also supermarkets. I never really took to those at all. I have however come across a few and eaten a few as they are a favourite sweet of my dear Generous Gentleman's. They always left a metallic taste in my mouth, and still do.</div>
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So when the opportunity arose to take the family to the <a href="http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/an-australia-day-tradition/2434422.aspx">Great National Lamington Bake Off</a> in order to celebrate Australia Day we all jumped at the chance. I was curious to see what it was all about and how a chef might interpret the lamington these days. My girls love baking (and tasting of course) and my lovely husband just loves eating lamingtons. So it was a match made perfectly.</div>
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When it was discovered that two out of the three chefs were baking a sponge cake for their lamington a question arose concerning the original and authentic lamington. Would it have also been a sponge cake or would it have been a butter cake? Granny always made a butter cake for her lamingtons and I have assumed that the spongey light and fluffy cake was made by the bakeries and supermarkets. However it seems that some others consider the sponge base is a more authentic lamington. Or perhaps they prefer the light and fluffy sponge cake? It seems that the CWA baked a butter cake for their lamingtons as well. I am yet to find an example of the sponge cake being used for lamingtons by the older generation, apart from mass production for school fetes and the like. What is your preference? </div>
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For the results of the bake-off take a read of the <a href="http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/an-australia-day-tradition/2434422.aspx">Canberra Times article.</a></div>
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Now I'm on a mission to bake lamingtons with my family in the fashion of my Granny's, to share with them the tradition I hold such fond and vivid memories of. I'll ask them which cake they choose as their cake of preference: butter or sponge? I already know my choice.<br />
<a name='more'></a><br />Ceehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18038238586812568949noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635387222361395991.post-45944334470775122132012-01-20T18:47:00.000+10:302012-01-20T18:47:22.640+10:30This Time Last Year 2<div style="text-align: justify;">
This time last year we were actually staying in a house, relieved from small expensive apartment accommodation for two weeks.</div>
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We were house-sitting for a couple who were visiting Russia in order to help build a kitchen and follow God's lead to share their lives with the people over there. In being a blessing to those people, they were also truly blessing us. At a time when we were very stressed about the cost of accommodation in Canberra, before we had even left Adelaide, we were offered this house to sit for a couple of weeks. We saw it as a gift in a financially challenging time. Yet this contact has proved to be pertinent throughout the year. You see, at just the right time, the owner of this home would pop in to see us or he would make a phone call to see how things were going for us. He would speak words God had laid on his heart and we knew they were meant for us. In hindsight it is very easy to see how our journey was known by God before it commenced. In hindsight it is very clear that we were held in the palm of God's hands right from the very start.</div>
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This time last year we had actually found a house we believed we could call our home. We had travelled the various areas of Canberra searching houses with a budget in mind. This house was seemingly the best house for the price. Later it would become clear there was a reason for this. It was a new house, almost complete. We put an offer on it which was quickly accepted. <br />
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A year ago yesterday I made an inspection with my unenthusiastic girls and three-month old baby in tow and noticed that a fence was being erected, and not quite in accordance with the way the real estate agent had told us it would be built. It was much shorter, not fencing off the outdoor living area, making a very tiny yard space. In hindsight perhaps we should have tossed it all in at this point. However we had no reason not to believe that we could extend the fence ourselves, placing a fence in the position we chose, to create more yard and some privacy for our outdoor living.</div>
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This fence would prove to be both our nemesis and our escape route in weeks and months to come.</div>
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