Radio!

I was on the radio yesterday morning, as a special guest of the 'Vitreous China' show on Southern Fm.

I was the designated weather girl/community announcement goon for the show, which was pretty good fun! I've seen radio live, but not been on the mike.

Thanks to Anthony and Alwyn for having me!

The big match

Has been run, and won.. Not by Australia either!


As the umpire for the day said, we looked great, and we were all there on time - but we ended up giving too many runs away.

The Indians ended up making 7/260 off their 40 overs - And after a fast and furious start, we ended up capitulating for just over 100.

I was extremely rusty with the bat, making a scratchy 18 (in many balls!), and dropping a couple of catches.

A good day was had by all, and the game was played in fantastic spirit - especially the sledging of the Indian captain Amol.

Now I just need a good massage, and about 20 neurofen anti-inflammitory tablets, and I'll be able to walk like a normal person, rather than a skinny kid who spent the night in the lockup being the bitch of a big man called 'Bubba'.

After dinner adventures

Now that I've had time to digest what happened at last nights dinner - here are the highlights:

Dad is now working, doing retail sales - he seems to be pretty happy to be out of the IT game.

My sister is still living at home.

Otherwise, sounds like everything is pretty much as normal. I guess dad was a bit surprised that we'd had another baby, and he had not heard about Jude's leukaemia either. We did invite him to christmas day, but it doesn't sound like he will be coming. Probably a good thing anyway.

We left the restaurant, went to the car, and Rach couldn't find the keys. The car was open, but I didn't see the keys anywhere in the car. A couple of calls to RACV indicated that the most they could do was pay for a cab for us, Rach called Ryan for a lift home, while I waited with the car.

I was happily listening to all my banked up podcasts, when I looked over at the sun visor, noticed it was not fully up, dropped it down - and the keys landed in my lap. I managed to get home about 11:30, which wasn't exactly the time I'd wanted to be back.

Food and other adventures..

Had dinner at Red Emperor - an Age Good Food Guide 2 hat restaurant.



First impressions were that it was a pretty standard chinese restaurant - white linen tablecloths, soy sauce on the table - although it did have a fantastic view.



We got there pretty early (7pm), and I thought the early service was pretty patchy - although it did improve markedly the later the night went on. We plumped for the $68 banquet - which was bloody fantastic. Started with fried chili calamari, and dim sum (which was beautiful!). This was then followed by Peking duck. We tend to use this as a real benchmarking dish for chinese restaurant - and this was sublime. Perfect little pancakes with the most succulent duck, beautifully crispy skin and rich hoi-sin sauce. My mouth is watering just thinking about it.



The stuffed scallops were divine, and the beet fillet was a bit hit and miss - a couple of bits that I had were pretty gristly. After being completely stuffed, we went for fried ice cream, which was gave the meal a delightful finish.



I think we will have to go there for Yum Cha and see what it's like.



Red Emperor Chinese Restaurant: citysearch



I will post later about the rest of the (long) night...