Pad Thai @ River Kwai, Weston

Awesome!

Perhaps it just reminds me of Nara Thai‘s Pad Thai (ah nostalgia – worked there through uni), but I grabbed the Pad Thai from River Kwai for dinner last night, and it was awesome. $15 and yum. (with prawn chips thrown in!)

River Kwai Thai Restaurant
9 Trenerry Street,
Opposite Post office, Cooleman Court
WESTON ACT 2611
Phone: 6288 0265
Mobile: 0405 123265

Canberra’s Handmade Christmas Market

Ventured out to the Handmade Markets this morning, to have a wander and get some Xmas shopping done!

Hot day – wouldn’t want to be in the shed later this afternoon. Ugh. Got a yummy cold chai from the Real Chai stand free when I bought some tea from them, that cooled me off and kept me going a while longer!

Ran into Jen from Red Instead (recently relaunched to focus on her passions for print, web design and photography)…running around helping here and there. Also saw (or was seen by) Julia helping at another friends stall. Also was able to scab a lift home from a workmate and her family (I walked there this morning!)

My haul!

I won’t tell you what’s gifts and what’s for me, but they came from:
Chin Chilla Creations
Created for You (I think I’m going to end up with a very large collection of button earrings if I keep visiting her stall!)
moyou
Real Chai
Wombat Heights Orchard
Lakeview Estate Winery

:)

Go Ho Ho

Let the controversy begin *rolls eyes*

Maestral Seafood Restaurant, Weston

When Rish offered to take me out for dinner to celebrate us both getting through a stressful semester at Uni, I of course said yes, and then waited for his to decide where to go :p I’m helpful like that.

We settled on Maestral Seafood Restaurant in Weston. Why? Well, it’s walking distance of home – so we can share a bottle of wine, and the wander home relatively safely. And it was the perfect choice for the end of the 38 degree day we had!

They brought out bread, olives, and what I had thought was a homous-like spread, that turned out to be highly-garlicy. Yums!

I ordered the Silver Dory – it was lemon, thyme, olive oil with capers and anchovies. Yummy chips on the side!

We shared a very home-style Mediterranean Salad. Very much like he one’s Rish’s mum makes!

I didn’t go for dessert, Rish had crepes while I finished my wine – BYO only, but no corkage is a bonus :)

I think we’ll have to go back in winter to try some of their lamb and veal dishes. Couldn’t bring ourselves to order them on such a hot day.

Maestral Seafood Restaurant
Trenerry Court
13 Trenerry St
Weston 2611 ACT
Phone: (02) 6287 3930

Did We Get Bamboo?

Found this in the hallway. I hope they remembered the bamboo…

Eagle Eyes

Rish’s father sent me these flowers yesterday… why?

Well, we were helping them move a bunch of furniture from their current house to their newly built house… Rish had the trailer behind our car, I was in the ute with his Dad just behind…

About, say, 5 km down the road, on the third roundabout (for Newcastle people – the one from Hillsborough Rd and the Charlestown Bypass) I see something come off the side of the trailer.

“Erm, did you leave a folder and some keys on the trailer?”, I ask.
hmm?
“Were there keys on the trailer? I just saw some fall onto the road.”

We pull over, I jog back, crossing the roundabout to find them just out of the lanes of traffic.

So, grateful, I got sent flowers. :)

(ps it’s MUCH more comfy running in running shoes than in sandals!)

All But Summer

Went for some sprints this morning on the oval near work. Does it not surprise you by looking at the picture above at how dead the grass is, that the ground was hard as rock, and we moved to the soft soft bitumen of the road instead?

Cooling Off

I got a Distinction for the Lit review on Learning Disorders/Challenging Behaviour I submitted Friday. Yay!

The ultra-fast turnaround got me wondering why the other one hadn’t been marked… turns out the lecturer couldn’t find it in his inbox. Submitting assessments by email sucks. Give me a hard copy or Moodle/Blackboard dropbox instead. I’ve re-emailed. It should be alright.

Hot Hot Day today….

Whatever Floats Your Boat

Or Caravan. As seen at Warners Bay/Lake Macquarie on the weekend on our quick post-semester trip to Newcastle.

Spikey Fireballs

I love the flowers in my suburb. I love that when I walk to work each day there are new ones out, ready to smile at me, and warm me up into the day. Like this little guy, so spikey and firey.

I’m starting to amass a huge collection of the “flowers of Holder”… if only I tagged my Flickr stream better! (a “Januuary Job”, I think!)