What’s Been Happening?

Oohh it’s cold, windy and raining today.  We’ve also had a couple of foggy mornings this week. Winter has made it’s arrival known.

It’s hot chocolate weather.

Earlier this week we had a visit from a Koala in the tree near our back deck. He gave me once chance to get a shot of his face, then proceeded to stick his bum in the air and hide his face. Obviously he’s not keen on being papped!

What’s Cooking?

Tonight I’m making oven baked risotto for dinner. Fat Mum Slim posted the recipe from her friend Baby Mac’s  winter magazine. It looks delicious. Then because I was going to mention the recipe here I felt guilty about not buying the mag. You can download the app for free and then the June edition of the magazine Beverley for $4.49. So I went and bought it because we do need to support bloggers who are doing some great work and  trying to make a buck.

Surfing the Net

Enjoyed this piece on Rachel Griffiths and really loved the photos by Hugh Stewart. Is anyone watching Paper Giants: Magazine Wars tonight?  Remember Squidgy tapes, the royal toe-sucking scandal and that tampon conversation? It was great era for the royals. Not sure I’ll get to watch the show as it airs ’cause for some reason the television gods decide to make week-day television crap and schedule every decent show in the universe on Sunday night. I’m juggling, Bondi Rescue, Modern Family, Mike Willesee’s story on serial killers on Sunday Night,  then Paper Giants, Ellen Fanning’s new show on SBS The Observer Effect, A Place To Call Home, House Husbands and Elementary. Why can I only record two channels on the PVR (sob)? Oh I know it was only a couple of years ago I had a VCR with dodgy tapes that only recorded one channel at a time but they gave me better and now I want MORE!

There’s a lovely lady who often visits when I post on the weekly photo challenge, her name is Cee and she has written on her blog about her 25 year battle with Lyme disease (that went undiagnosed for most of that time). Her story is incredible. So it was a shock to see on Facebook a post about a woman from my hometown who is currently dealing with the same disease. She too struggled for a diagnoses and was told that Lyme disease didn’t exist in Australia her aunt has written about what she has been through.

I loved Grown and Flown’s take on the generation gap.

Also found this Atlantic article on how happiness changes with age to be so true.

I hope you are warm and dry tonight, what’s been happening at your place?