Fish and chips - doing the math ?

Fish and chips yeah
Fish and chips yeah
Make me want to lick my lips (lip smack)
Eat them for breakfast lunch and tea
Fish and chips are for me.

A chorus of a very cool kids song. We had fish and chips for tea last night .... running late home from town. But instead of buying them from the F and C shop or making my own version - I bought the frozen - good quality crumbed fish and chips and cooked them up when we got home. Still very easy to do and it would have easily been half the price.

Fish and chip night was always Friday night when I was a kid and it was nowhere near every Friday night. It was a real treat though. And it always tasted fabulous.

Now I am sitting here at 5am in the morning waiting for these fish and chips to digest. They are weighing very heavy on my tum tum. Anika thinks their fabulous - she was a little disappointed though we didn't go to the Fish and Chip shop. She has just recently come into an awareness that we don't always do what 'everyone else' does.



She still doesn't know about the the big M and when we go around that particular round about she goes - look there's the doctors. Sadly .. yes those trips she does remember. But better than the ....other. However with the TV advertising she sees of McDonalds I think the connection will be made with lightning speed once .... if we ever.... do go there.



I do really hate the whole kids walking, (and singing an incredibly catchy and annoying song) and we give them a pedometer and we're doing something for kids health. Also ... we are using Fair Trade coffee beans ... which is really cool ... but it's all so constructed to draw you into the branding. I must say though, after a very cool South American flavoured advert about their coffee beans - groovy guitar music - lovely soft tones of green, brown and khaki, to see the red background with the yellow M it almost seems oxymoronic - (if that be a word !)

Idyllic

This morning from the verandah.

We are certainly priviledged to live in a gorgeous place in a stunning country. I am so lucky to have so many stunning views from my front verandah. These do certainly keep us going in the good and not so good times. I certainly do draw on them for strength from time to time.

Turkeys in the compost - farm below.


But the interesting thing is how we view into others lives - we look at the outside things - the pictures - the talk - and we feel maybe sometimes we are missing out and we could maybe have it that way thinking life would be better. There's always a bit of truth in that however like my own on the outside seemingly idyllic lifestyle in beautiful surroundings parenting 2 beautiful girls, involved in work I love, there are the weeks of flu - coughing and vomiting and over tiredness - messy houses - strained discussions !!

My escape to the outside world.

Yes I do wish for things to be different at times - but there is nothing like hanging out the washing on a fine day in my little spot here in the Wairarapa - watching the full moon rise over our valley - waking up to a brilliant display of colour and most of all having my family around me with no pressures to be here or there - even if they are all sick in bed !!


Re the poo thing - for those interested that is .... beautiful yellow colour - but still runny and a wee bit explosive - so if chocolate is the laxative factor ... it hasn't made a difference. Perhaps then it was the citrus, acidy stuff that was the blood causing .. therefore slow reintroduction, I think would be best, of the chocolate substances back into my diet first and then see if anything changes from there ..... and then maybe test out the other foods !!

Our bush below the house ... the other morning.

Enjoy your weekends and I hope you are saved from the flus and colds and have idyllic 'moments' to enjoy.