Sunday, December 26, 2010

Day 286- Don't mind us, we are just enjoying the view

 
26 December 2010- The residents of my Mum's garden, taking a mud bath perhaps?
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Day 285 - Merry Christmas

 
25 December 2010- A new tree ornament!
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Day 284 - Christmas cake

 
24 December 2010- We finally decorated the cake
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Day 283 - So Many Toys

 
23 December 2010- I spent an afternoon helping sort donated toys. Everytime we cleared the table, more came in.
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Day 282- Cookies

 
22 December 2010- Making Christmas cookies
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Day 281 - Mussels

 
21 December 2010- Another day, another work Christmas lunch
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Day 280 - You'd better watch out...

 
20 December 2010- Santa makes an appearance.
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Day 279 - Disaster

 
19 December 2010- The great book disaster of 2010- the day we discovered that the cardboard boxes holding the books were soaking up water.
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Day 278

 
18 December 2010- Even the street statuary gets decked for Christmas.
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Day 277- Tree Ornament

 
17 December 2010 - This tree ornament has been around for a long time, I have no memory of who gave it to us, but it has survived 3 different continents and many moves.
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Day 276 - Rain, Rain, go away...

 
16 December 2010 - Or just hang around for the next few weeks instead. Rain drops on my wind at work.
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Day 275 - Come into my parlour...

 
15 December 2010- Not one but 5 spiders hanging out in the front tree, enticing flies into their web
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Day 274 - Bring me some figgy pudding

 
14 December 2010- We have an excess of Christmas pudding this year, and started eating it early.
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Day 273 - The family tree

 
13 December 2010- My family tree- one branch can be traced back a lot further than the others.
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Day 272 - By candlelight

 
12 December 2010- Candles lit, not sure why
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Friday, December 17, 2010

Day 271- I'll take the stairs

 
11 December 2010 - The last remains of public baths on the Brisbane river
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Day 270- decorations

 
10 December 2010- At an Hawaian themed Christmas party- I got creative with the table glitter things
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Day 269 - Mystery object

 
9 December 2010- The stationary bike pedal. Aka instrument of torture
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Day 268 - Wow

 
8 December 2010 - At the U2 Concert. Which was awesome. Probably because of the awesome seats (a co-worker went the next night and wasn't happy about the lack of engagement with the crowd- what do you expect for $40 seats?). Thanks heaps Nel.
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Monday, December 13, 2010

Day 267- Pirate ducks

 
7 December 2010- I am not sure that there is an explanation for these
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Day 266 - Postcards

 
6 December 2010- I discover Postcrossing
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Day 265- O Christmas Tree

 
5 December 2010- The christmas tree- out of the box and not yet decorated. I miss real trees at Christmas, but they aren't easy to find here.
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Sunday, December 12, 2010

Day 264 - Sangria!

 
4 December 2010- A home attempt at sangria- using white wine
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Day 263 - Fluid dynamics

 
3 Decembrer 2010- We tried our hand at making garlic infused oil- chunks of garlic in olive oil.
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Day 262 - Fruity Drinks with little umbrellas...

 
2 December 2010- The Barracks hosted a night in Latin America event- the ticket fee went to charity, there was sangria, latinish food and latin dancing.
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