Everytime I use chia seeds I think of the chia pet ad at the beginning of Wayne's World. Ch-ch-ch-chia! Just me?
I made these yummy pink grapefruit and organic yoghurt cups for dessert last night.
And I sprinkled crunchola and chia seeds over the top for extra texture.
Since I've been sprinkling chia seeds on everything recently - this caught my eye in Bunnings a few weeks ago.
Don't you love the tagline - Kids love them!
It's done pretty well in the veggie patch so far - it's popped out these blue flower heads which google tells me will then form into seed heads - for my first chia seed harvest!
We're still a few weeks early - but it feels like summer is already here.
What's new in the garden? We've finally got some passionfruit growing.
We planted the vine almost two years ago and its sustained a few possum attacks but it just kept bouncing back. I love the passionfruit flowers - they're so crazy looking.
I've had a runty little hydrangea on this transplant.
And corn! That's a first too.
And our cauliflower is staring to do something. I think its trying to make a cauliflower. But who really knows. Its been in the patch since the beginning of winter not doing terribly much but I've left it there because it looks pretty impressive.
I always thought it was a winter vegetable - but it seems these summer days is getting it hot under the collar.
They're joined at the hip 24/7. If Charlotte catches a grasshopper, Henrietta is over straight away. If I'm feeding Henrietta sunflower seeds, Charlotte wants some too. Most of the time Dr Octopus is still over the other side of the yard, totally oblivious to it all.
But this is the first time I've witnessed this.
I guess the chickens that lay together, stay together.
Pet bunnies are illegal in the fair state of Queensland. Mr Tchotchke once made the mistake of asking about this at a pet shop and was harshly chastised by the shopkeeper with the reasoning "they destroy infrastructure!"
So that may have something to do with why I'm so enamoured with them. You know - you always want what you can't have. I don't know if I'd move to Tasmania just for the bunnies, but they seem to have more than enough to go around.
We saw this little guy in the side yard of a house in Swansea on the east coast. Very Peter Rabbit no?
Here's Mr T staring down a cooped up junior detective on the front lawn of the Swansea Police station!
Here's a city dwelling bunny back down in Hobart.
And me chasing after him. Yah I'm really subtle.
And this relaxed chap was in the gardens at Cascade Brewery. One too many pale ales I suspect.
I haven't dropped off the face of the earth - I've just been to Tasmania. But its okay - they have abundant gardens, gobsmacking galleries and bunnies-a-plenty (but more on that later).
This amazing creeping rose was at the Governors House in Hobart. We jumped a fence looking to get to the botanical gardens and realised later they were private grounds. Whoops - sorry gov.
This is from a front yard in Richmond. Not sure what the flower is - like a hydrangea but half the size?
Here are a few pics from my travels.
These amazing houses are in Battery Point
Would you believe these gardens are at the Cascade Brewery? Beer and gardens together at last.
I've always loved colour - and maximalism - in both fashion and homewares, so it's no surprise I'm a big Missoni fan.
I've been slowly building a little collection of towels and scarves over the years, so I almost wet my pants when I heard about their collaboration with Target in the US.
Of course I wasn't the only one - with their pop up store during New York fashion week being cleared out in an hour, the online sale crashing their website, and items appearing on eBay for astronomical prices.
How gorgeous is Margherita Missoni in their TV ad?
Anyway, despite some serious delays and a bit of a PR disaster (their social media team took a beating on twitter), my online order went through, and with the help of Parcel It On my package arrived today! (Target US don't ship to Australia - and Parcel It On are a package forwarding service that I've used before and can highly recommend!)
That's a lots of zig-zags! (ps - it's not all for me)
My verdict - the towels seem like surprisingly good quality - the cosmetic bags not so much. My favourite was a little zig zag knit dress - as soon as I put it on I had to do a little go-go dance - it's so 60's! I won't be wearing it head to toe like in the ad- mm well not outside the house at least.
Yes the deer puns were flying thick and fast today.
I'd heard rumours of wild deer living in Minnippi Parklands for years but had always presumed they were urban legends, having never met anyone who had sighted them first hand. Until my London-dwelling friend was taking a stroll last week and came across one wandering aimlessly across the sports fields.
So we set out yesterday afternoon at dusk with high hopes and my superzoom camera... we were hunting for tracks and wandering through the bush for about an hour without finding so much as a gecko, but then on our way back to the carpark Mr T spotted this guy. (girl?)
Pretty amazing hey?
I even managed to get some video footage. Please excuse Mr T's narration - I suppose wild animals beg for a bit of David Attenborough.
Apparently there are up to 30 wild deer living in the parklands - and have even been known to roam the nearby streets! Where did they all come from? No ideer. (sorry couldn't resist).
