Sunday, June 10, 2007

Yum Cha for the Queen

Ella found her first Yum Cha at the wondrous Noble Palace today a bit of a yawn! While J&J, Granny, Rob & I feasted on and relished our soft shell crab, whitebait, calamari, shark's fin, seafood, pork and choy sum dumplings, Ella slept on and on and on.

Claire and Jeremy and big O & little A were meant to join us for Queen Elizabeth's birthday Yum Cha but the boys have heavy colds and Claire has had very little sleep for a few nights so they needed to have a quiet day. We did a little babysitting for Claire late last night while she had Big O checked out at Casualty. He developed croup around 9.30-10.00pm which was quite frightening. They both arrived back from hospital after midnight. Big O was much improved and ready to party!!! Jeremy made an early return from Sydney this morning after a worried night on his own.
Rob and I spent a lazy afternoon yesterday (cold and blustery outside) watching DVDs: The Queen and Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (in recognition of the monarchy and our british heritage giving us a long weekend).
After Yum Cha lunch and then coffee together at Double Shot (with baby Ella still asleep) Rob and I went home for a while before heading to another film session at Dendy, a new release French film: Orchestra Seats. We loved it - typically French with its intense characterisations, beautiful dialogue, gorgeous Paris backdrops, but not very big on plot. We loved seeing the beautiful Cecile de France again who we had both admired as Gerard Depardieu's muse in "The Singer".
Big week this week with M&R's return from Turkey and Dayvy's farewell brunch next Saturday. We will get to meet his May apparently.
It has turned wintry cold this week, with a couple of light frosts and some national dramas: wild weather and flooding around Newcastle / Sydney and a shocking prime mover train collision in Victoria, killing 11 people.
I found this amazing fungus growing up from leaf litter under the silver birch in our back garden. This is not the first amazing fungus I have seen here - but this is the biggest ever!

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