Casa del Cushie welcomes the Child of my Loins. How lovely to have the beautiful daughter at home for a holiday. We spent most of the day shopping. Actually she shopped and I wandered along watching her. We finally gave up trying to find something to eat at Munno Para because she is not eating bread. We decamped to Caffe Primo and partook of good healthy food, albeit extremely expensive.
During the afternoon the child went through my food cupboard and found most of the food stuffs so out of date that Moses could have been eating them on Mount Sinai (I think that is the right mountain). At times I had to argue about out of date goods that were still perfectly edible. Last time she went through my spices she threw out a brand new paprika. Yesterday it was my soy sauce. I have been using it but as I don't use it often it tends to last for quite a while. The reason I was cross about the soy sauce was that we were having stir fry for tea and it needed just that little bit of sauce to give it some oomph and saltiness. I am happy that I can find things in the cupboard, as for the last few months I have only been able to use foods that were at the front. No wonder some of the things were out of date. The result is of course that I have a lot of room to untidy again when she is not here but also that I do not need to use one the part of the cupboard whose door hinges are not very strong. Every now and then I have to give the nails a bit of a belt so I can open it. That cupboard now has nothing in it.
I cooked my stir fry for tea (slight argument there about the minced garlic being out of date, admittedly it did taste like vinegar) and made one hell of a mess doing it. I cleaned up after tea and put all the dirty dishes into lovely hot hot water to soak. After that we had a long protracted argument about who exactly was going to do the dishes. I was reliably informed that I should have a dish washer. My idea was that I did have one but that it was argumentative. Eventually when the water was cold I had to bite the bullet and wash up myself. I am sure there is a rule that the cook does not wash, however, this rule appears not to apply to the Child of my Loins.
As we are having Christmas in October we are having presents now. I have a nice new Kindle to play with. I love it. It even has a little light so you can read in bed and not disturb anyone. As I do not have an anyone I suppose it doesn't matter. It would be fantastic on long plane journeys though. I am reading Sherlock Holmes at the moment. Evidently Kindles can hold as many as 1400 books. Hopefully I won't run out of power whilst in the midst of reading.
As there was positively nothing on the old teev last night we watched Happy Feet 2 on my computer. My dvd player does not work so I always watch everything on my trusty laptop. I really enjoyed the movie but as I didn't watch Happy Feet 1 I was a little confused. Actually I am always a little confused so why should this be any different.
Today my child is going to take pictures of a friend's little girl. There is also a lovely new puppy and lots of photographic opportunities there. I do love puppies and of course Cate so I should not stay home but the embroidering of the faces and buttons on all my dolls calls to me. I simply must get the ones done that are for Kel's expectant friends. I am thinking of having a workshop for the two of us where she will stuff the dolls after I have finished the embroidery. I have made a Fat Controller for Dane. He loves Thomas the Tank Engine. I also bought some Thomas material and I am going to make him a little bag for his trains and cars.
I would like to go down to the beach one of the days and have a bit of a walk with the old Herb plus buy an ice-cream. You definitely cannot go to the beach without an ice-cream. Actually, I have so many plans that there will not be enough days to do them.
So welcome to the Casa del Cushie Child of my Loins. I am so chuffed to see you that I am ready to burst.
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