That bit closer to the big 4-0

Thankfully this years birthday was a whole lot better than last years (with the exception that Kevin & the girls forgot :-)).

I had a lovely day out shopping with Mum and we had a little afternoon tea party after school.

My birthday

Cutting the cake

Birthday cake

Birthday flowers

The evening ended on a more “exciting” note. We went to get takeaway pizza for dinner (after singing lessons) but our pizza was given to another Kevin. So we had to wait for them to remake our order. Then I got a flat battery as I’d left my car headlights on – thinking I’d only be stopped for a few minutes while Amy went in to pick up the pizza. Kevin had to go and buy stuff and come restart my car. Lucky it was a great tasting pizza – once we’d reheated it in the oven because it was cold.

Nan Tien Temple

After doing yesterday required jobs I decided to take the camera out to play at the  Nan Tien Temple (which is just a 15min drive away). Had fun taking more photos. I thought it would be a good place as there are building, landscapes, flowers, etc – similar to what I’ll be photographing overseas.  Unfortunately I find it hard to check photos in the screen so I don’t REALLY know what I’ve got until I get home. Here are some of my favourites.

Nan Tien Temple

Nan Tien Temple

Love this guy doing this stretches.

Nan Tien Temple

Nan Tien Temple

I’ve never been to the temple in Autumn/Winter before and was pleased to see all the beautiful trees.

Autumn

A splash of colour

Autumn leaves

Unfortunately the lotus pond was rather dead.

Dead lotus pond

Duck reflections

I was still playing with aperature priority.

Nan Tien Temple


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Before heading home I treated myself to a yummy lunch – love that everything is vegetarian :-). You can tell I’m NOT used to shooting food with this camera!

Lunch at the temple

More photos

Okay, I warn you now I’ll be sharing lots of PHOTOS over the next few weeks (then even more once we go overseas) as I’m on a VERY steep learning curve with my DSLR. Yesterday I took the dogs and headed down to the lake to work on aparerature priority photos.

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Of course, since I had the dogs with me I managed to get quite a few photos of them as well.

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This one is my favourite.

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Just when I was getting ready to photograph the ducks the dogs took off into the pond. Poor Bailey had his first proper swim as he was attached to Rosie.

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Bad Food Blogger

Okay, so I’m a REALLY bad food blogger at the moment. Doing another catch up 🙂 so you’ll have to excuse me if I forget what I’ve eaten or don’t have photos. I’m also a bad “health” food blogger  as you will see….

Friday….breakfast – marmalade on toast

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Morning snack – green smoothie while watching one of Val’s live Red Carpet Ready chats.

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Lunch – salad with rice balls and hummus

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Afternoon snack – Cheese (with spring onions) on crackers

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Dinner at Gold Class movies – shared dip platter and brushetta, hot tea, and ice cream sundae.

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SATURDAY I was a good girl and did my workout first thing. I then enjoyed a green smoothie.

Breakfast = cheese and pineapple on toast

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Lunch was at book group. Today we had the most delicious cheese empanadas made by Lucy’s Dad. I had 3!! So bad for you but SOOOO delicious.

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Later I ate one of my choc nut bars. When I got home around 4.30pm we had a party to celebrate my pups birthdays – which were a few days ago.

There was this..

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this…

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and of course, cake – lemon syrup.

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I ate enough that I deemed this dinner. Later we had something – might have been ice cream….

 

SUNDAY – Breakfast – pancakes with lemon and sugar.

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Lunch – Minestrone soup

Dinner – Leftover rissoto

And too much else nibbled on throughout the afternoon and conveniently not photographed.

 

MONDAY

Breakfast – a leftover pancake…

Lunch – Red quinoa with rice balls and falafel

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Afternoon snack – protein crisps

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Dinner involved some fresh peas – need to buy more next time… Everyone liked them – even the pea hater Kevin!

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The meals inlcuded half a vegetable snitzels, baked potatoes, capscium and onion, corn cob, fresh peas and snow peas. Delicious!!!

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For supper we tried some of these cookies Mum bought back for us.

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Kevin loved them but they were a little too spicy/gingery for me.

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