Little Blue Letters

Joan has been unpacking.

Amongst all the books and books and books, are great family treasures. One of my favorites so far have been these:

They are little and blue and typed on a typewriter both sides.

Letters to Narni and Joan from Natalie (Joan's sister) during her time working at the UN. Natalie worked as the secretary to multiple Secretary Generals and went all over the world doing amazing and glamourous things during the UN golden age.

I wonder what people must have thought of an official UN letter being sent to a property outside of a tiny country town in northern Queensland.

Her letters are written so well we spent a whole afternoon reading them like a novel.

Mollly's Recipes

Joan gave me the most wonderful gift last thursday, it is so beautiful,

Molly's recipe book.

Molly is my great-great grandmother.

I love her because she is my great-great grandmother, but also because she is Jesse, i was named after her (of course her really name in Jessie, but she decided to spell her name after her favorite uncle Jesse, we didn't work it out until after I was born and even then I think I would have preferred to be named the way she wanted to be named). We call her Molly because after she was divorced she didn't think mum was really right, and that Jesse was disrespectful, so we ended up with Molly.

So Molly's recipe book, it is circa WW2. there are beautiful recipes such as a rye bread recipe which was given to her by a friend during the bread strike of 1943 (of course I can't find anything about the brisbane bread strike of 1943).

I think it is fascinating that her recipes are almost all sweets, I guess most savory meals consisted of meat and three vege, it boggles my mind that she would have never tasted pasta when I eat it multiple nights of the week.

I have my very last university exam of my undergraduate career on the 15th of November, so on the 16th of November I plan to start cooking. And I'm looking forward to it.

Forms of Procrastination, Pinterst

I've recently discovered a new obsession. PINTEREST! It's like, you pin your interests (hence the name) on various virtual pin boards. It is very addictive, better than Facebook, and more regularly updated than blogs, it is sooo bad for my studies.

I find all sorts of fantastically wonderful things, such as absurd comics:

Cute quotes:

Awe inspiring pictures of bookcases:

And great cooking ideas:

It is truly truly bad for me.

But kind of awesome.

Quiet Baking

Living in a small Queenlander with a family of eight is awesome. However it does mean that my 'hobby' of baking cannot really be indulged after 8.30pm. I really don't want to keep my family awake or risk waking everyone.

That is why I love recipes that don't require loud appliances. So when I came across this recipe today I was very excited. So of course I baked it right away, and boy was it DELICIOUS!

Plus it only used a few utensils and average ingredients. AND it only. Took 5 mins to mix together and 20 ish to bake. Awesome.

I will definitely be making cinnamon brownies again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again.

Beautiful Weather

The weather today has been BEAUTIFUL, really warm, and might if it had followed dozens of hot days been considered hot. However since we are all embracing the warm spring weather it seems perfect!

In fact, to me it seems the exact same weather as the day just last March when Mum and I spent an entire day exploring Uxmal.

We had spent the day before taking a guided tour of Chichen Itza, which was interesting, but kind of horrible, the guide was showing and they took us to a separate huge  tourist restaurant for lunch. So the next day we decided to take second class buss tickets (no seat belts) to Uxmal. we were told it was much prettier and less touristy, it was  better than we would have EVER imagined. instead of hiring a guide we bought an archaeological site guide, we wandered and talked and debated over just how right we thought the archaeologists who wrote the guide were.

It was just an amazing day, we were able to climb over every building but one (as long as you weren't scarred of iguanas) we climbed,  we gazed, we walked... We were there for a good six hours and it was divine.  I only wish I could do it again.

Happy Images

This photo made me smile. I had to post it on Facebook for Louisa who has a 'thing' for mustaches. It makes me laugh to think of her reaction.

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