A cow at sovereign hill grazing. It was making a lot of noise before the caretaker came with a whole lot of hay and after that, all you could see was it lazily munching away.

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Have a backlog of images I haven’t processed yet. I’m usually pretty enthusiastic about reviewing the images I take, but this past couple of weeks I’ve just been busy. Vyanne’s family had just left the night before, and on the first day they arrived, we went to Ballarat to visit Sovereign Hill. Heh, it’s a little community there and since we got out of the house late, only managed to look around there and the Gold Museum nearby.

We rented a 12 seater van/bus as there were 6 of us in total and my tiny little Jazz can’t fit so many people. Heh, it was a different kind of experience driving such a large vehicle, but I somehow managed it.

The days after was work in the day, a few hours of Starcraft 2 when I got home, and dinner after that. Heh, it was a rinse and repeat process until the weekend. On their last day in Melbourne, we went to the Macedon Ranges, had a delicious breakfast at the Braeside Cafe, visited Hanging Rock, Fernleigh Organic farm, Trentham Falls and Red Beard Bakery. This time round, I managed to get a Toyota Tarrago, and it was a really comfortable ride, pretty much the vehicle we wanted to rent to begin with.

Fired up the barbeque for the first time in many months. Had recently bought one of those barbeque chimneys, which is basically a perforated metal cylinder. You put the coals in and light it up from below. The purpose of the chimney is to reduce the surface area of the coal, so that when the bottom ones light up, it burns upwards and lights the rest of it as well. A barbeque fire used to take me 30 minutes and a few extra firelighters to startup and this time around it was just one matchstick and 10 minutes later, we had a whole stack of blazing coals. It’s never been easier.

Cooked a marinated, butterflied leg of lamb on the grill and it was just done perfectly, slightly pink on the inside, and slightly charred on the outside, so you get that slight smoky flavour. Absolutely tasty!

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Heh, now that are guests are back home in much warmer weather, the house is a little quiet again. Did some tidying up, finished my game and now getting ready for the week to come. I need to start studying now that I’ve put Starcraft 2 behind me (the campaign was great, the story was well fleshed out, and at least it didn’t leave me hanging). A few more days of quiet and my mom will arrive to stay for a couple of weeks.