To welcome me back

poppiesanddaisies.blogspot.com - a very wonderful and amazing young women - my new hero...that woman, as you know from her blog, has moments of doubt and worry about herself - but she needs to know that she is really an amazing young woman who has the personality and grace and charm of a woman like Jane Fonda, or Grace Kelly - you GO Mrs PB! we all love you!
NOW, onto what I initially intended to write about before I slipped over there on her blog to visit!
I have decided that I am a manic person in some ways - I rediscovered gardening in January (refer last blog) and now I have rediscovered cooking - I am hellbent on cooking naturally for my family (all of whom are living beneath the parental units wings once more - more on that later). Sir Ladbrook and I trot off MOST Saturday mornings - well we've been three times to TWO - to the local farmers market - local being the brilliant Lyttleton one (www.smaps.co.nz) and we buy free range eggs, and garden fresh veges that haven't been sprayed, and then free range, hormone free meat - it's all so incredibly exciting. However, I have discovered that at the bottom of my hill, there is a free range, hormone free butcher, and next door an organic vegetable and food place where the veges are the same colours they were when I was growing up in the 50's and 60's - you know the colours I mean - like www.sotreadsoftly.typepad.com - where Mrs STS had her colour rage this week - REAL orange for a pumpkin, and REAL green for silverbeet and broccoli!!!
So, now that we have the fledglings both at home, there is more demand on my culinary skills, and they are both enjoying the spoils of my hard work! Yay!:)
Now, you are asking , what has caused the fledgling to return from Nadi? Well, The Captain decided to finish her time offshore, and return to NZ to further her career. Hence she has moved back home to do some serious study for a three day interview at the end of the month; she has one in the North Island of NZ with a small local airline, and when she joins them she will be flying twin engine Beech aircraft to smaller provincial airports - a very important next step in her flying career. Mind you, with today's temperatures struggling to reach 5degrees celsius, I suspect she may be regretting THAT move a la mo! It is lovely having her back, as she is a delightful young woman, who has a mind of her own, but in a very positive way.
Ma Boiy is still hunkering down in the downstairs bedroom, and is working happily at a small coffee roasting business where he is also furthering his skills in barista-ing, sales and now adding maintenance to his repertoire of skills within the coffee world. He is such a personable young man, that he is well suited to chatting to people and winning them over. It's actually a really lovely feeling being proud of both our off-spring!
Mr CT and I had a brief sojourn to Mooloolaba, Queensland, Australia where we went to the wedding of the son of a dear couple we know there. There is always great weather on the Sunshine Coast www.tourismsunshinecoast.com.au and we were not disappointed this time. We had ten days there and got growled at by colleagues/friends because I sent emails and texts from there and Mr PD also commented on it. but it was THAT sort of holiday where we were blobbing and boy did we blob!
Well, rather than put you ALL (all 3 of you that I KNOW about) into brain overload with information, suffice to say I am back and look forward to re-establishing our wonderful blogging relationship.
Until next time
Mrs CT
P.S. no photos as it is too cold to go to bedroom and get camera - it is now 4.8degrees outside and in the bedroom!!!