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Storing Christmas Trees

While helping my mother pack up the Christmas decorations we encountered the same problem we do every year. How do we store the six foot chasms tree? It used to have a cardboard box but this perished after a couple of years and it was always too big and hard to maneuver into the roof space. So after some discussion we decided that we had to custom make something. The bags we did have couldn't accommodate the longest bits of the tree and would easily rip. Mum's idea was to use some old curtains. It meant we got to recycle the material, it would be strong, we could make any size we wanted and could make a number of them.  1. Dismantle the tree, Gold the leaves down and bundle the branches together based on size. Tie them together with ribbon or string and label with a number so you know what order they go on the tree. 2. Find some materials. Can be stuff you just have around the house. In our case they are old curtains that  coincidentally look a bit  Christmasy. 3.
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Photo Grid - App

I've had this app for a while now and I'm really enjoying the fun things I can make with it. Here is how to find it  Photo Grid  and below are some examples of the stuff (some (most) made purely for fun) that I've created using it. Five stars for this app!
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Mum's ANZAC Biscuits

I have made these a few times over the past couple of weeks. They have been great with a cup of tea but never last long enough for visitors to enjoy them. So instead of friends and family waiting for me to make them I'm sharing the recipe :) I try to used weighed measurements for everything so that there is less washing up at the end. Mum's ANZAC Biscuits 160 g (1 cup) Plain Flour 110 g (1 cup) Rolled Oats (I used Woolies quick rolled oats and they were perfect) 160 g (3/4 cup) White Sugar 60 g (3/4 cup) Desiccated Coconut 125 g Butter (I used margarine - I can't taste the difference in the product) 1/2 tsp Bicarbonate of Soda 1/2 tsp Boiling Water 2 tsp Golden Syrup Combine flour, oats, sugar and coconut in a bowl. In a sauce pan melt the butter and syrup together over a low heat. Mix the water and bicarb in a cup and then add to the melted butter. Add the liquid to the bowl and combine well (might need to get your hands dirty here). Divide into h
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Review: Kendo's Irish Cafe

  Review of my recent visit to Kendo's Irish Cafe, 476 New England Highway, Toowoomba, QLD 4350.  This little cafe's location is great, it's right in the heart of Toowoomba's CBD. And when I say little I mean small - I almost walked right past it. But it's cosy. It's pretty basic in fact even a little bit rough around the edges but has a lot of potential. The staff were quite friendly and the atmosphere is nice. The table we sat at was dirty and when I wiped it with my napkin the napkin went brown. And I noticed a lot of crumbs and dirt on the floor on the front area, which is bit of an eye saw. Also the tea cup I was given had a coffee smudge on the lip of it - ewww considering I was having tea... Other than that the kitchen looked clean enough. We had chips and gravy which was really good. I've been told the gravy is guinness flavour - I can't really tell but I liked it.
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Lipton's Decafeinated Tea

I recently found out that cafeine reduces iron intake in the body. And for someone who is frequently iron deficitient and drinking between 5 and 10 cups of tea each day this is probably an important point to concider. So I went on an internet hunt to find decafeinated tea. I found Twinings and a few other overseas brands but the two main brands I found in Australia were Lipton and Tetley. Difficult to trach down in the grocery store, but luckily tracked down some Lipton Devaffeinated tea. I had previously been told that it's not too different to normal tea so I wasn't to worried about it not tasting right. To my suprise they taste like normal tea, maybe a bit like a homebrand tea and it's smells ever so slightly odd but still easy to drink. I'm sure it's the sort of thing that takes a few weeks to be come 'normal'. As a decaf tea, although I don't have anything to compair it to, I give Lipton 4/5 and in the scheme of all teas I give it 3/5. I don
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