Champagne - twice in 1 week!

Yay! Three months since my last champagne posting we are back on topic. It was with great pleasure this week that I was able to review 2 of France's finest:

Bubbles 1 - G.H. MUMM 1999 Brut Millesime

Occasion - the engagement of our best man to the love of his life! Mazel tov.

This champagne was amazingly soft, buttery and delicious. It danced lightly on the palate and floated gently to the head! I immediately wanted another bottle to check if anything could taste so ... well ... floaty!

Bubbles 2 - Veuve Clicquot Brut

Occasion - the sale of our unit to an offshore investor currently cruising on the Queen Mary - cheers to you Mrs N!

For me, Veuve signifies contract signing as it was the traditional way my work celebrated deals back in the naughty 90s. Its big and brash and bright (like its orange box) and makes you feel like shouting 'yahoo'! So it was the perfect choice for finally settling on our sale.

Its official - I can cook but can't bake!

In the last week I have cooked up some simple but delicious meals. We've had cottage pie (for us & bub), organic beef sausages with tomato salad and corn, t-bone steak (ok hubby did bbq these so i cant take full credit) with israeli salad, persian fetta and brown rice & last night's yummy chicken tikka masala. Baby Naomi also was served some very tasty salmon with potato & carrot mash, steamed zuchini and a kind of bolognese made from chicken mince.

However, on the baking front, I attempted some cookies and they were so bad I couldn't even bring myself to give to the homeless guys at the beach. They went straight into the bin :(
The funny thing is that Hubby Mark doesn't even have a sweet tooth so I am just baking for the fun of it ... or maybe the challenge? I love pottering in the kitchen, dirtying every dish in sight ... but I would like to be able to eat the results of my therapy occasionally!

Time space continuum leak!

Not sure what happened but its March! The mornings are noticeably cooler and although the sun is still hot around midday, the air temperature is coming down to meet the water temperature, with both hovering around 20 degrees in recent days.

With summer over life is getting busier. I have started doing some work from home (which is what I should be doing now) and picked up another subject at uni (more about that later).

But we still have found time to enjoy of course!! I am loving Centennial Park at the moment and find myself there a few times a week now. Last weekend we hired bikes and took Baby Naomi on her first ride. She loved it ... for the first 5 minutes. We are not sure if it was too scary after that or if the unsightly helmet was just ugly and annoying but she made it pretty clear enough was enough. Suitably complicated manoeuvres followed to return bikes (Hubby Mark rides back, drops off bike 1, gets car, picks up bub, i ride bike 2 etc) ... but it still was a very enjoyable afternoon!