Long Weekend

This weekend just gone was the King's Birthday Long Weekend across most of Australia. Yesterday was a public holiday

I spend most of Saturday getting ready for Sunday. I cleaned up and cleared up. I went to the supermarket and later to Dan Murphy's. I prepped vegetables and potatoes, and put a piece of turkey I had bought just after Christmas into the slow cooker. (It had been in the freezer, waiting for its chance to shine.) I made the filling for gyoza. I did not make the chocolate and wattle seed brownies I had intended to make.

Sunday morning

On Sunday I took some of the turkey and put it in a casserole dish and added some Karkalla curry spice mixture, some cream cheese and garlic. I half cooked the potatoes, which I squashed and roasted later. I made gyoza to start. We had the turkey stew with the roast potatoes and the vegetables I had prepared on Saturday. I did not make brownies. I made a chocolate and wattle seed mud cake instead. Irene, Gillie and Chris came for lunch. John did not come. He wasn't feeling as fit and well as he usually does and decided to stay home instead. 

We had a good afternoon anyway. Lots of food, a bit of wine, plenty of conversation. A good catch up.

Lindsey sent me a message yesterday morning to say that she was planning to head into town later in the afternoon and would swing by my place to pick up the leftover mud cake to take to work. Then she sent a message at lunchtime to say that she was already in town. So I went in and met her at Daiso. We went to Kmart. I bought new pillows.  We were just on the tram on our way back to my place when my brother Matthew rang. He and William were intending to come to my place for coffee and a catch up. It would take them about the same time to walk from Will's place as it would take Lindsey and me to get back on the tram. In fact, Lindsey and I made it back about five minutes ahead of Matt and Will.

It is fortunate that I had cleaned up after the Sunday lunch 😊

So more people than I had expected to see over the weekend. (I had been expecting the Sunday Lunchers; I wasn't expecting a coffee party on Monday afternoon. Spontaneity is good )

Monday evening