Fuel crisis

​Today Ana and her parents had an appointment at the school down the road from us. 

It’s the school her daddy and aunt went too. And hopefully she will start attending next year  I know  how is she old enough to be starting school next year 

The appointment was at 11oclock. 

The original plan was daddy would come in the morning as usual, with the girls 

And mummy would arrive in time to go to the meeting. 

But then the mango Mussolini did what he does and now the whole world is in a fuel crisis 

So plan B 

Mummy was always going to work from home today. But instead of using two cars, the whole family arrived this morning. 

She set up her work space and got into it. 

Meanwhile I did what I normally do on a Friday. 

The bonus was. I didn’t need to heat milk and feed Georgia. 

She could drink straight from the tap! 

I was able to spend that time with Ana 

We started with Ana having a small area of floor space to colour in and do some drawings. 

She eventually spread out as more and more of the craft supplies were added to her “ work space “

I’m still trying to get her into the habit of putting small things away so that when Georgia starts crawling we won’t have any accidents. 

She is pretty good now. Just a few instances where the offending objects were hidden behind her or she was sitting on them 

Georgia was much happier to sit in the play station  the seat can spin round and give her lots of views of her surroundings 

But she’s not quite strong enough to move it 

Ana was showing her sister all the different toys we have added for her to play with 

After lunch, stewed fruit, I gave her some baby rusks. These pretty much dissolve as soon as saliva hits it. 

Still grandma was right there the whole time 

Yesterday I got my stock pot out to make, funnily enough, some stock lol

I boiled one of our home grown and processed chicken. 

No. Not the rooster. He’s still walking around. 

I boiled the whole chicken until it was well and truly cooked. 

I then took it out to cool and then took all the meat off the bones chopping it all into bite size pieces 

I then placed all that meat into a smaller pot with some of the stock,and  egg noodles 

Once the noodles were cooked I let the whole thing cool while I got the egg and lemon mix ready. 

I added that to the pot and mixed well until the egg cooked 

This is the Greek chicken soup. I think traditionally it’s made with rice. But I do the noodles as well. Just for a change. 

Once completed cooled. I left it over night so that I can skim any excess fat from it. But I didn’t have to. 

I’ve bagged it up and it’s now in the freezer I ended up with six of these bags.  Once frozen I can take the baking dish out and just leave the bags in the freezer. 

I’ve got one more chicken to do and some big beef bones, again raised here, and I’ll make beef stock 

It  will save me having to buy lots from the supermarket during winter. I do use quite a lot of stock in my cooking

And finally I used one of Georgias body suits to measure the cardigan I’m making 

The yoke looks to be a perfect fit. 

I’ve measured the length of the body and the arms. I can now continue knitting 

Between that and making more hexies I’ve got enough to keep me busy during the evening while hubby watches all the sports he can 

Winter has definitely arrived. Last night I lit the fire. I wanted the place nice and warm for the girls today.

It’s been going all day and we needed it. 

There is a very cold blustery wind blowing from the south. There is nothing between us and the South Pole except for Tassie. It’s not big enough to block all the freezing winds. And I live about 45 minutes from the bottom of Victoria 

So that’s it for now. I’m sure plans will chop and change now to save on excessive driving and using all the fuel we have. 

The government has talked about a maximum amount limit anyone can buy

I fear this is going to get much worse before it gets better.