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Busy Week, Quiet Weekend

19/2/2012

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How come the weekend always goes by just too quickly? And this was a weekend where we had no plans.

After being ill for two days and then busy after work eating out a relaxed weekend at home was on the cards. Before I go into that, we enjoyed catching up with Lucy and Steve on Victoria Street on Wednesday. It's been a while since we've seen them so good to catch up over tasty food. And huge thanks to Steve for passing on some access passes to the Nike staff shop...whoop whoop! So exciting!

Thursday we had a reunion with Toni and Peter who are the couple we toured Tasmania with on a big bus all to ourselves. They live in Christchurch and were in town visiting their daughter and son in law. We had a great dinner and we met Kirsty and Marty (the daughter and son in law) and we enjoyed some yummy wine and lots of animated chatter.

Friday was a long overdue drinks session with Rachel and Tim. Absolutely loved catching up and hearing how they have been settling in to Melbourne life. We thoroughly enjoyed sharing their enthusiasm for this city we all now call home for now. Mutual friends and readers of this, I can tell you they are both well. They're enjoying the sunshine, the food and wine and the running tracks!

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So after all that socialising it was good to have a weekend of staying in and that we did. We spent Saturday lunchtime at South Melbourne market and enjoyed a seafood lunch in the sunshine before stocking up on food supplies.

We sat in the sunshine by the seafood peddlar and enjoyed lots of different dishes including some mussels, oysters Kilpatrick, Cajun grilled flathead, sambal skate wing and a Morrocan fish soup.

Steve spent the rest of Saturday cooking up a storm in the kitchen. We enjoyed cheddar and corn fritters with crispy bacon and avocado. He also made his signature crusted lamb rack and a pine nut and honey tart which was accompanied by vanilla ice cream and caramelised figs. A pretty good effort by Mr Barley.
And so here we are and it's Sunday evening and bedtime beckons. Today has been spent holed up happily in the apartment. We've had baked eggs for breakfast and toad in the hole for dinner. We've watched episode after episode of JAG (we're onto series 3 now so only 7 left!) and interspersed that with some Sherlock and some Alcatraz. It's been a long overdue quiet one before another busy week and a proposed weekend camping! Yes you read that correctly - I have been roped into a camping weekend...yuck!
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