We had the yearly pre Christmas party yesterday at the Chatterton household. Beth was extremely excited about it because Maddie was going to be there, Amy's daughter. Beth loves Maddie ever since we stopped by her place in Danniverke on the way to Akito a few months ago. Maddie is lovely with Beth, playing games with her and all that sort of stuff, Beth just follows her around doing whatever she says.
Anyway Beth had a lovely time, as did we all. Theo rode around on the green Truck, only one fairly major spill where I looked up and the truck had hit the step outside and Theo was flying through the air before going "clunk" on the concrete. Needless to say he wasn't super happy about this and cried quite a lot. He's got a nasty little bump/scrape on his head but appears otherwise unharmed. Beth got a dolly that you can feed food to, then she poops it out. Joy. Theo got a set of blocks that you can easily stack, you can tell already that he loves them.
For the party Sarah made some really nice entrees. Once of which was a raw fish in a nice sauce thing. It's got a proper fancy name that I can't recall. While we were getting ready to go I loaded them up in the front seat of the car. Off we went. It wasn't until Sarah had to take Theo to the A&E late last night (he had a fever and seemed puffy) that she realised my loading of fish entrees into the car hadn't been done with the best of skill, and fish sauce had leaked all down the back of the car and into the rear passenger footwell. So I spent an hour or so last night taking the car to bits, cleaning all the sauce out, throwing baking soda everywhere. A check of the car this morning shows that it doesn't smell too bad at all, I can just detect a bit of an odour there still. I'll get in there again later tonight and give it another go over with the Bissel machine that Sarah bought a year or so ago, it's great for cleaning carpet and those sorts of things. Most of the fish juice had spilt onto plastic and was easy to clean up, but there's a small bit of the front passenger seat that might require a bit more work. Fingers crossed it can be cleaned easily enough.
We signed up for Sky Fanpass yesterday. It's a way of still being able to get Sky Sport 1,2,3 and 4 but instead of needing a Sky Box you can just get it online, then use some sort of trickiness to get it onto your TV. I've got a Chromecast so I can just start streaming the cricket from my phone and then click a button and it pops onto the TV in nice HD. It's not quite as good as an HD Sky box, but it's good enough that you're not really going to notice. It meant we could sit on the couch once the kdiddies had gone to bed at watch the test match, Australia vs South Africa AT HOBART. Shame that we're getting our arses handed to us. But yea, Sky Fanpass seems to be a good solution, it's $20 for a week or $60 for a month, that's still better than the $90-100 a month we were paying for an entire Sky package before, considering the only thing we really used it for was sports. For movies etc there's Netflix, or stuff we've downloaded, or Freeview Plus.
Sarah's making Biltong in the oven. Our oven has this defrost mode which is really neat, it seems to apply a very very gentle heat with the fan going. It actually works amazingly well to defrost meat etc without cooking it like the microwave would, of course it takes a long time. But she's using this mode to make Biltong and it seems to be going very well. Here's a photo.
Tim
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