Sunset glory

This was the view from the couch last night. They might all seem the same but the clouds and colours were constantly changing.

Three rang at lunch time. Could we pick Sally up from school. Don't have to ask twice, kiddo! The excitement on her face when she saw Grany made my heart sing.

This is how you know your grandchild goes to school in a rural area!

It turned out that Amy had overslept (Three drops Alice at daycare on his way to work and leaves around 7.15). She didn't wake until 8.35. She drops Sally at school at 8.40 and starts work at 9.00! She worked back to make up the time, hence the pick up request. 

When she picked the girl up we talked about school holidays. There will be two weeks when she is back at work so I said we will have Sally as often as is necessary. No need for her to go to school holiday program. 

Pfeffernusse were something I bought for the kids at Christmas. Not for any particular reason although Two loves them. When Three dropped over at the weekend he was full of glee that he had found some - I had no idea they meant something to him, too. So today I decided that I would have a go at making some. I sent Himself off with a list of ingredients. To my surprise we don't have ground cloves in the local supermarkets. He came home with whole cloves and we will try grinding in a pestle and mortar but if that doesn't work I'll pop one in whole with the other spices when I melt the butter and molasses and hope I remember to remove it!

Cloves always remind me of Dad. He hated them because his mother put oil of cloves on his teeth to relieve a toothache! In the same way that it took me a long time to start to like cinnamon after mother made us drink cinnamon oil in milk to prevent colds on the assumption that the girls who worked in the cinnamon factories during WW2 didn't get colds.

So tomorrow I will bake another Christmas cake - this time with whisky - and prepare the dough for the pfeffernusse which should sit in the fridge for a couple of days to let the flavours develop.

I need some netflix suggestions. I watched Merlin and loved it. I then watched the first series of Knightfall (about knights templar) which was ok but series two was leaving me cold. I am now watching Irreverend, a gentle comedy set in beautiful Mission Beach and it is pleasant enough but I want something to get stuck into. Suggestions please. Anything but horror. Blood and gore is ok as long as it isn't gratuitous (which is why I ditched Knightfall).

One day I might post photos of the sunrise but that would mean getting up before ... well ... the sun rises!