This takeaway shop on Gympie Rd has been a bit of an institution round the Chermside area for quite a while now. I have often walked past and seen local workers or tradies at the counter picking up a takeaway lunch or snack. It has also had a few ownership changes recently, which has seen the name change. As I was walking home from work on Saturday I couldn’t help but laugh at the new name for the shop. Abbreviating the suburb name C’side to make your fish and chip shop sound like it is right on the water front. I loved it.
Last post from the ABC birthday party and really about time. I discovered Blue King Brown at Woodford this year and since then their album Stand Up has had a lot play.
Whilst the ABC show was a different vibe to Woodford where it was a X000 wet people dancing in mud at midnight to 100odd people dancing in the winter sun at the Riverstage with X000 people sitting on the hill behind them, BKB delivered with the crowd listening to every word that sung from Natalie’s mouth. There were times when the crowd was jumping, clapping and singing a long with the songs and then there were times when the crowd stood there listening in awe as they listened to the words and thought about the meaning behind them. Head over to their myspace page and listen to some tracks if you haven’t before. Now the photos which is what you all come for 
As we were driving home from our Mackay trip, Mum noted a bush lemon tree by the side of the road laden with lemons. I promptly did a u-turn on the road and went back to the tree to pick a fewlemons. There is nothing quite like bush lemons and for the rest of the day I could smell the lemon oil on my fingers, our car too was perfumed with the delicate scent of lemons. It was quite a treat. Later on that day I picked up 5 limes and 5 meyer lemons for $1 at a farm gate stall on the Gympie-Tin Can Bay Rd. We have had quite a few lemon treats since we returned and this is the first one to be posted
This recipe is one my Grandmother used to make(hence the title) and was made by my mother with the photographs by me of course.
Grandmum’s Cheesecake
Ingredients
Crust
250g Arnott’s Scotch Fingers, crushed
45g Copha, melted
45g margarine/butter, melted
Filling
250g cream cheese
400g sweetened condensed milk
1/3c fresh lemon juice
1tbsp gelatine dissolved in 1/4c hot water
Make a crumb crust with the scotch fingers, copha marg/butter. Press into the base of a 7″x11″ Lamington tin and refrigerate.
Beat 250g cream cheese till soft, beat in the remaining ingredients. Pour into the prepared crust and chill till set..
Serve with strawberries, passion fruit or just chomp down on a piece as it is.
We just received our quarterly council rates notice in the mail and of course the first page that everyone in Brisbane turns to at the moment is the Water Advice. I present to you our water advice page.
We are a family of 4 adults and in the most recent reporting period we were using 308L a day which works out to be 77L per person per day. The target that the BBC and Water Commission are promoting is 140L per person per day. Looking at our notice that is what we were achieving 12 mths ago. According to the Water Commission, the average per person per day usage is currently 137L in the region.
It will be interesting to see what we achieve for this period as our rain tank is now feeding the washing machine which saves about 50L per load, which will add up.
In addition to having a front loader washing machine, we don’t own a dish washer, the garden is been left to fend for itself except a few plants that get the water from the shower whilst waiting for the hot water to kick in. It is all about just taking a millisecond to think when you turn a tap on, is this necessary? Am I able to reuse this water? etc.
Last Saturday night I went out with my brother and his mates to see Frankie Wants Out from Melbourne and a local band The Bad Moon Company that they are friends with. By their own accounts Frankie Wants Out play Gangster Swing and they were good and I enjoyed the music but it felt like they started to unravel towards the end of their set. I walked out with their EP The Melbourne Way which I have enjoyed listening to in the past week. The highlight of the night was of course The Bad Moon Company, are a Psychobilly/Rockabilly which went off. They were incredibly tight musically and definitely have perfected their stage act. I loved them. Pure and Simple.
Regina on Monday night was absolutely blooming marvellous as I outlined in the previous post, here though are the photos, which is what we all love to see.
There were so many things I loved about the concert. All the words and phrases were so very clear, which meant that we all knew exactly what she was singing about. There were times when she would be in the middle of a song and giggles would break out in the crowd as they “heard” what she was singing and she in turn would turn to face the audience and put this sort of shy, funny look on her face which was a crack-up.
Regina’s 2nd last song was Hotel Song with
Only Son who beat boxed the main beats with Regina adding the vocals and more beats over the top. Very cool indeed. You can watch a video of this performance at previous gigs here – Regina and Only Son, Hotel Song
Loose Here by Kain
