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thursday rolled into friday, and soon we were having garlic prawns, crispy potatoes, baked mushrooms, bitey radishes, garbanzo and spinach salad on a balmy friday evening. it was lovely, and so was left over lunch today.

it sure is a beautiful spring-like saturday.

i am in the middle of organising the seasonal exchange partners, so if you have emailed me over the last week, please check your email for an update. if you are in the southern hemisphere and would like to join; dont be shy! send an email to seasonalexchange[at]gmail[dot]com with your name, address, online addresses and old season. the more the merrier, as we need more people who have left winter to send a seasonal envelope to another in the northern hemishphere. i’ll be sending out exchange partner information on monday evening, so stay tuned.

until then, we are having a bbq tonight and i’m in charge of the garlic bread! have a lovely saturday and sunday, friends.

good day! it certainly is here in sydney with the weather a little cooler this morning, thank goodness! although my computer is still not working, and can only be repaired next week so for now i have been using the boy’s laptop much to his chagrin as it a pc. hmph.

today i want to be out an about in this beautiful sunshine so i’m sharing some of the flora in and around my house and in the boy’s folks backyard, both of them from the recent rolls of film i had developed and scanned. the above shot is what my kitchen window sill looks like. our window looks onto a neighbouring block of flats, so to retain a little privacy and keep the light streaming through i have curtains which sit half way and a row of succulents, as they are the only plant willing to stay alive in the house.

the boy’s mother however has had far better luck with her plants and has blooming rose bushes out the front of her house. when we were over a few weeks ago, she wanted to take a few photographs and this one here was the sweetest smelling of them all.

other things which have caught my eye this week::

• papergarden {via hoping for happy accidents}
• istanbul hotel {i just loved these photographs from camilla engman, another view of travel}
• tommy visited scandinavian kitchen which is on my list of places to visit when im in london next month.
• make your own bob dylan clip {via oh happy day}

i have to be quick today; my beloved laptop has broken down and i can only access the world wild web briefly. yes, my nearly brand new mac just didn’t want to rev up this morning. it doesn’t look good at all.

here are some shots i took while waiting at the cobbler the other week, when getting other beloved things fixed. my cobbler is old skool; he lines up all the shoes he fixing on shelves behind the register {which always seems to be covered} and on the floor in methodical rows. he hands out those pink tickets you see in the second photograph and then sends you on your way for a week until he does his thing. the services isn’t speedy, but you can guarantee a job well done when you come back and exchange the pink ticket for your repaired shoes.

i started a third roll of film today, so as i practice with my old slr, i’d like to share with you a couple of the scanned negatives from the last couple of weeks. today, some fruit and snacks::

tangy kiwi fruit halves for second breakfast.

tiny pink lady apple from our weekly fruit and vege delivery

and other bowls/cups and spoons on film::

• another spoonful
• film.82
• after

have a great monday night!

i’ve given up on the alarm clock for now because the light in our flat is so bright and pretty it makes waking up easy. easy enough to put the last of the wine glasses away from yesterday’s lunch, a little reading and even more time under sheets before waking properly to a new week. do you do that as well? wake up early and go back to sleep for a few more winks?

yesterday’s lunch was great. and it was even better after lj and i stopped manically cleaning the flat and cooking for a tribe, a tribe of 16 who came bearing gifts of cupcake books, storage containers, platters and carving sets. lj did his best to pretend the gifts were for sharing, but we knew the truth. we went the traditional route of a sri lankan fare, which means more dishes than there was room on the table and dessert was easy-peasy with make-your-own-pavolvas; mini vanilla and chocolate meringues piled high, self serve bowls of cinnamon cream and sliced kiwi fruit, raspberries and strawberries. a very good sunday if you ask me.