Summie is home

I am amazed. From being in intensive care...with a breathing tube...to being discharged. Wonderful news for Sum. I am sure she has a way to go to get her strength back, but we are all so pleased for her.
 Fraser will have to be the general dogsbody for a little while I expect, but I am sure he is just as pleased as we are to see her on the mend after such a dreadful time.
 So now, hopefully, she can enjoy her new place to live, which they moved into just before she was taken in to hospital.

What next? I hear you cry.

On the go!

Well, dear readers, here is the finale. I found a blog where the lady had great success by mixing red and green tomatoes to make tomato sauce. So I looked at the bowl, overflowing with green tomatoes that probably wouldn't ripen, and thought "Why not?"
Consequently, today was the day, and I bundled everything into this small vat, and left it to bubble away for 3 hours.

The result

So after the cooking was finished, I went at it with my little stick blender, lavishly decorating the kitchen walls and the stove in the process. Then.....Voila!!  There is enough sauce there to last for 10 years, at the rate we eat it, so I may have to give most of it away. However, now there is not a green tomato to be seen!!
Except!! (there's always an except) we pulled out the plants up the back, and read that if you hang them upside down in a cool dark place, the tomatoes still on the plants have a good chance of ripening. So that is what we have done...in Angus' part of the shed, slung over the beams.
Hmmm....we shall see!

Green Tomato Chutney

This was my first go at making chutney. Of course, I had long since given all my empty jars to the op. shop. So, I had to go and find some more!!
 The taller jar on the right is a different recipe...it has chilli. The other two were an easier recipe to make. As you can see, just behind is a dish of the left-over tomatoes, plus another load still on the plants. If we don't like the chutney I don't know what I can do with them.
 Look for more recipes I suppose!! Which will mean buying more jars!!

Summie

Here is a picture of Sum, taken a few years ago. At the moment she is in intensive care at the Alfred Hospital in the city.
We wish her all the very best, and hope she gets better soon. She and Fraser had only just moved into a 2 bedroom unit, so it couldn't have come at a worse time.

A worrying time, especially for Fraser, and we send all our love to them both.

Get well soon Summie.

The past revisited

Yesterday, we decided to go for a drive, and we ended up in Chelsea, where we lived when the boys were small. No, we didn't visit Kiwi Court, but we did go down to the beach. It was overcast, but very warm, and in spite of that, there were only 2 senior citizens braving the water. If I had come prepared, I would have gone in the sea too, but never mind.
It was a still day, so the water was very calm, and we had a really pleasant time there. Also,  interesting to see so many changes all round Carrum, Edithvale, Aspendale and Mordialloc.
Please note, as usual, we forgot to take the camera. Luckily I had my mobile phone, which I had left in the car, so I had to run back and get it. Once again, Jim had to remind me that the name says it all......it IS mobile. One day I shall remember!!

What a load of old cods!!

So this is the rubbish ready for collection.........so far.......yes, there may well be more to come. Once you make a bit of a dent in it, even more comes to light, so it is a bit of a never-ending saga. The worst part is trundling the wheelbarrow from the shed right up the back, down to the front, and then unloading. The pick-up starts on Monday, so, for once, we are really ready.

Of course, things have come to light which we had forgotten existed. One thing is this camera, which was a present from my parents when I left home to emigrate in 1967. Such a long time ago, and so many developments have happened since, but there's no way this is going on the rubbish pile. Too precious a memory.

The Agfa Silette

These were the days of film spools, and setting the film speed and F settings. What an age ago that seems.

More Birthday treats

Who wouldn't love a beautiful gift like this. Thank you so much Summie and Fraser. I know you must have a million and one other things to think about at the moment, so it is even more appreciated.
 It is so nice to have such rich lotions and potions at one's disposal, and I shall pamper myself from now on. I shall be the nicest smelling 71 year old in Victoria, and, with the smoothest skin!!!
 I really have, once again, been extremely lucky.

Summie and Fraser

Fraser and Summie

 

Here is a picture of Fraser and Summie. They are due to move next week to a lovely 2 bedroom unit. I have seen the pictures, and I think they will be very comfortable there. Unfortunately, Summie has had some ongoing health problems lately, so we wish her lots of love and best wishes, and hope she can cope with all the extra pressure.
I am sure Fraser will be a strong support for her.

Another one bites the dust!!

Even the box is lovely

Much appreciated

Well, once more it is that time of year. Birthdays do tend to roll round a lot quicker these days!!
Here is the lovely present from Angus and Sue. They popped in for a flying visit yesterday, and this is the result. A really  lovely perfume, that I would never have picked in a million years, because I knew nothing about it.  So it was a complete surprise, and a very much appreciated one at that.
So maybe I shan't write off future birthdays altogether if this is the result.
They won't be able to top this next year!!