Captain Vegetable

Need I say more.

Peter and Janette

Peter and Janette left us this morning to continue their Tasmanian adventure. They severely chastised me for not keeping the blog up to date, so they'll be delighted to see how quickly I've blogged a photo of them from their visit.

Jodie has known Peter for a long long time, and the three of us worked together on the Oacis Programme in South Australia.

On Tuesday night we had curry night, and did some catching up over some lovely local wine, and some of our favourite from the Barossa. Peter and Janette got to see us at our busiest [14 guests in the house], with the bell ringing every so often with Jodie and I taking turns seeing to the needs of our guests. We had to provide some reassurance that it wasn't like this every night.

Wednesay saw Peter and Janette head over to Freycinet, which was spectacular as always. On the way back they collected some oysters and mussels to spoil us by making us dinner! The mussels were accompanied by Peter's pasta made from scratch, and some more wine, of course.

Breakfasts were very busy for us as usual, but this morning we served an early breakfast at 7am for half the house who were off to a cruise, so we got to sit and have a quick coffee before returning to the chaos in the kitchen and all six rooms to clean.

Double cream

So many things I've missed out on blogging, so I'll quickly put this one down while Jodie continues to bring things in from the breakfast room [she's doing a wonderful job].

Today we had four people pre-order pancakes, and we were asked for cream to go with them which is quite rare [usually people are either intrigued or keen for bacon]. By chance, we had some Meander Valley Pure Double Cream in the fridge - which I dutifully dolloped as a special treat for our guests.

Jodie had some pancakes spare, so I decided to try our pancakes with cream and syrup too. WOW! Meander Valley Pure Double Cream is awesome! Dollop doesn't do this cream justice. It is so thick, we presented the cream on a tiny flat plate in a Quinelle.

I found a food blog that has some nice photos of the cream here.

Grats Lash!

Many other things to blog, but I've found if I do them when they happen... they get... done!

Lashana hit 70 tonight... so celebrations all round. She did it on her very own account, now that Barrath has moved onto his own one!

Jondy and I [Borgthor] flew out to Netherstorm to capture the moment.

... and moments later... she had a flying mount.

... and the tree is down!

We have had a big start to the year... so the christmas tree only came down a few days ago. It was becoming an ongoing joke with our guests towards the end [although some were a little serious about the bad luck it could bring [although they couldn't decide which date was most important, and I think Sweden gave us the biggest leeway]].

We are closed for tonight and tomorrow for a couple of highly anticipated projects [I'll blog about those later], and I thought I'd just get this blog on the sphere for 2008.

I've just finished the stats [late] for last quarter in 2007, and can happily say that December was much busier than last year, and January's occupancy is already up 12.5%. That mostly explains the lack of blogging and our slackness in a whole stack of other areas!