Miniture Steam Trains

Yesterday, Jack, Josie and I had a lovely morning having a ride on some miniture steam trains.

Jack, Jo and I...

... taken on Mothers Day.

Exploring the beach together

Homemade Bread

I've been working on my bread making techniques. No bread making machine, just enjoying kneading by hand and allowing the dough to rise, sitting at the kitchen window. Below is my most recent effort.

30 Minute Meals

You may know of Jamie Oliver's recent book, 30 Minute Meals, which is a series of meals that Jamie says take 30 minutes to prepare from scratch. The idea behind the book is to encourage busy people to make a decent (and healthy) meal, instead of going for ready made food, or take away. We thought we would give it a go, and see whether you could do everything in 30 minutes.

So once Jack and Josie were tucked up in bed, we went for one of the first meals; Pregnant Jools's Pasta, Crunchy Chicory and Watercress Salad and Little Frangipane Tarts. Main dish, salad and desert in 30 minutes!


All the ingredients ready to go

Pasta ready...

Mains and Salad. Desert was complete, just staying warm in the oven!

Having two of us in the kitchen certainly helps. We were finished in 27 minutes! The meal was great (if we do say so ourselves). We plan to have a 30 minute meal night once a week, working our way through Jamie's book. Next week... we may go for a curry night.

Camping at Yallingup - Part 3

Checking out the big waves at Canal Rocks
A big wave came through and everyone on the bridge got wet

The Lane Family

And the Lane Family!

Waiting for Daddy to finish his surf at Yallingup beach

Camping at Yallingup - Part 2

Enjoying a play at a Busselton playground

Playing 'silly faces' in the morning

Enjoying her 'Simmos' ice cream

Playtime at 'Simmos'

Camping at Yallingup - Part 1

We had a fantastic family camping holiday, staying for 4 nights at Caves Caravan Park in Yallingup. We all thoroughly enjoyed spending time with Selby, Emma, Ethan, Owen and Declan, and despite the weather (nothing like a camping trip to break a long dry spell!), we found plenty of things to do and see.

Jackson loved hanging out with his cousins

All the cousins together at Yallingup beach lookout

Yallingup beach

Checking out Busselton jetty

Chilling out at home

Its school holidays at the moment, so Jack, Josie and I have had lots of fun chilling out at home with Rich.

Afternoon play with Thomas and his friends

Josie LOVES the trampoline

Racing his 'Lightning McQueen' cars