Weekend roundup

Last weekend there was the infamous midgie massacre of my legs, from which we are still finding casualties. Despite this the boyfriend and I had a lovely couple of days at our friend’s farm. He picked us up on Saturday around lunchtime, which was lucky as I was starting to feel the Festival Rage. It’s an unfortunate affliction which seems to come on around this time in August when tourists start invading my city and treating us lowly locals as part of the entertainment. Anyways, enough of that…we shall only speak of nice things!

The puppy sat in the back with me, dressed in his Sunday best…



Saturday afternoon we raided the vegetable patch. There really is nothing quite like eating sweet peas straight off the plant, and I must have devoured a hundred of them. They were so sweet we could have had them for dessert!



I left a pile of empties behind me…



Sunday was for lazing about and not doing a whole lot. We didn’t want to tire ourselves out before the drive home! The boyfriend and I found a couple of sun loungers and settled into a nice reclining position. Even the puppy decided to adopt a distinctly horizontal stance.



We resurfaced for long enough to have a wee barbecue…



The buffalo steaks were from Puddledub Buffalo at the Farmers Market, and everything else – the carrots, the sugarsnap peas (my favourites) and the onions - came from the veg garden less than ten feet away. You really can’t beat zero food miles, from plant to plate in under a minute! The carrots were super-sweet and tasted like no carrot you could find in a supermarket and I think I ate more peas in those two days than I ever have in my life. We didn’t do much to them, just grilled with a little bit of oil and did the steaks in a splash of Lea and Perrins.