If a greyhound is too big, can recommend a whippet. This one is only a year and a bit old and after a morning run, it’s mostly this all day, only interrupted by snuggles:

Yeah, it’s summer.

This apricot variety is called Fireball.

Pity they knocked down the Maughan church

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Interesting piece titled “The Treatment of Criminals”

I bought an old wooden box at auction and it had this newspaper from December 1881 in it. Interesting reading. US immigration was on the rise. The french were being dirty colonisers in Tunisia.

There is less foam on the beach in the last week or so. aybe things are improving with the algal bloom? The dead fish patrol still doing their thing though:

The start of a vindaloo.

The whippets quiet protest about the wood stove not being lit is to whine at the door like she wants to go out and pee, then when you get up to let her out, she jumps in the warm chair you just got up from.

“Light the fire, human”

I recently planted a second, different variety of pomegranate, because the one I had flowered prolifically but never fruited. Of course the first one now seems to be forming fruit.

Mantis in our front yard this morning

Dug up more of the La Ratte potatoes for a potato salad today. Eggs, potato, capers, rocket and dill from the garden.

Finally got into the art gallery of SA to see the Vincent Namitjira & Tarnanthi exhibitions. Both great. Loved hearing some laughter through the art gallery in the VN show. “The Royal Tour” series is particularly good.

The first caprese for the season with (mostly) home grown tomatoes, home grown basil and home made fresh mozarella

So what came from the garden for Christmas lunch? The potatoes were dug yesterday - they’re a french variety - La Ratte. The duck also used homegrown bay leaves & garlic. The salad had home grown radishes/parsley/rocket. And the cheesecake used homegrown eggs from our chooks Nina, Ella & Billie.

Todays lunch was orange & juniper duck maryland with potatoes (Donna Hay recipe). Radicchio fennel & orange salad (Julia Busuttil Nishimira recipe) & burnt Basque cheesecake with liquorice sauce, blackberries & roast cherries ( @nigella.bsky.social recipe). Delicious combo of food.