Pah humbug

This morning I was heading past Pah Homestead* and decided to stop off for an explore.  Dr. Semple's orders were to get some exercise to see if that helped aid my recovery.  I'm not sure that an amble through the art gallery inside the house and the park quite counts, but it's all I felt up to.  WARNING: contains nudity and this time it's not Reuben!

More fun with the Pastafarians

Sunday lunch al fresco.  Beans, courgette, tomatoes and basil from the garden.  If only we had space for a vineyard...

We were so inspired by our pasta-making experience a couple of weeks ago, that we decided to give the pasta machine another outing today, and this time we let the children help.

Getting pastalicious

For some reason Reuben and Tilly were talking about homemade pasta recently, and I was sufficiently inspired to dig out a recipe, mix some dough and get my pasta machine out of the cupboard.  And the results were really, really good!  I've bought fresh pasta in the supermarket over here, and it's actually not that great - quite rubbery and dense in fact.  But this homemade stuff was, as the Masterchef judges like to say, light and silky!  Here is the master at work:

Hannah's day is more exciting than expected

Here I am all glammed up on Tuesday morning in a baggy hospital gown and charming hairnet and ready for a septoplasty and mega antrostomy