It's the Weekend
It's the weekend. What's happening in my neck of the woods? Well, visitors from Australia for a few days, which is always fun. Success in resisting the temptation to see who won Australian Masterchef before it aired, and making it to the end, months delayed. (See previous blog rant on this!) One of the Aussies did know, ha. Praise be, I have to say, that it's over. Sixty episodes. I managed not to watch them all, though. Masses of Black Friday sales everywhere. Everywhere. This is a relatively new thing in NZ. We're I'm simple folk, so have no needs, there. Resistance not needed. I discovered a nice new series of gentle novels, the Pudding Pantry series. English-set, about a cook in the country who starts up a pudding business. The only thing is, they should all be obese and diabetic the amount of desserts they try, but they seem to have self control, (It is fiction , Jo, fiction....) However, one of them had a recipe for a Sticky Date Toffee pudding I really