Weekend Reading

I had some new paperback Down to Earth books sent to me during the week and decided to sign and sell them. I sent the first batch off yesterday and I have five left.  This offer is for Australian readers only as the postage costs to send anything from Australia is too expensive to justify. So if you want a book, I'll sign one of these and send it to you when I receive your payment and address details. If you already have a copy, you might like to give one to a loved one for Christmas. These will be gone by tonight so if you want one contact me with your name and address and I'll send you my bank details.

Above: Just the normal stuff that's usually on our kitchen bench. Limes, ginger, peppers, bananas, and tomatoes along with cucumbers just picked from the backyard.

Below: A meal from this week's scratch cooking - a frittata with sweet potato, onion, garlic and spinach. Great when you want to use up some eggs (it takes eight), it's fast, easy to make and delicious.

It started getting hot here this week - as I write this, it's 36 C. We're pretty well set up for hot weather here. Our roof is painted with solar reflective paint and it really lowers the temperature inside the house. We have airconditioning with inverter technology (cheaper to run) and solar panels. But when it's hot I go outside less and find things to do indoors instead of pottering around outside. Looks like I'll be getting stuck into my sewing sooner than I expected.

Here are this week's Weekend Reading links. I hope you enjoy them.

• Herb or vegetable? Flexible celery is both and more
• Cream past its best? Turn it into soured cream – recipe
• The week in wildlife – in pictures
• Weeknight vegan: three simple, flavour-packed plant-based dinner recipes from Edgar's Mission
• When the taps run dry
Fights, classroom violence and suspensions have dropped 'dramatically' at this primary school — here's how they did it
• 13-Year-Old Ruth Bader Ginsburg on prejudice, its antidote, and the five documents that shaped humanity
• A Nameless Hiker and the Case the Internet Can’t Crack
• DIY Handmade Shoe Idea Indoor Fabric Shoes
• The Famous Cake with one egg
• 27 household products you can make at home
• Living the Self-Sufficiency Dream on a Tiny Homestead
• Embroidery thread: what thread can I use for machine and hand embroidery?

Enjoy the weekend. I hope you visit loved ones you haven't seen for a while due to the lockdowns or just do something you love.  See you next week!