Shopping excitement at Manuka

How thrilling!! We purchased a travel guide in preparation for our next holiday, and made a discovery that Fruitacious at Manuka sells Willie's chocolate. We love Willie. Willie is the star of a great doco series - Willie's Wonky Chocolate Factory - documenting him following his dream of making and selling chocolate. We started watching when we were starting to shake up our lives and planning to escape Brisbane, so we could really relate. Ever since seeing that series I've wanted to try Willie's. 

snow...no

As yet we can't see any snow on the hills, although Selwyns and beyond have been getting good falls.  We set off mid morning in search of snow - but without wanting to drive too far. A short drive into the hills didn't yield any flakes, but it was lovely countryside. 

Beware the giant wombats of Brindabella

views from Mt Franklin road - currently closed to traffic 

Bendora Dam 

A remnant from the 2003 bushfires

Tuesday night's pastie

Ten out of ten on the food-o-meter.

... two croquettes, a plain cheeseburger, three slices of cucumber and a lollipop.

I don't read a lot of blogs - I'm a luddite that still likes to read books - and so usually once I hear about something fun in blog land it's already in the news and everyone else has heard about it too.  


But I love the story about the 9 year old food critic and her blog with pics of school lunches, so just in case you missed it - check out the SMH story here and the blog here. The council got upset and banned her from taking her camera to lunch - until they realised that actually that was going to create a lot of bad publicity.