OCTOBER - Buy Nothing New Month

[jeninwa]

My pick would be Sydney or Brisbane. Cookie who's correct?

[cookie1]

Very much as I would love to come and see you it may be getting a bit warm for me and after the photo of that snake       No way!
I think it may be Melbourne at the moment. She hasn't shared it yet. She will when she wants me to pay up. We are using our airfare money from the aborted Singapore trip before we lose it.

[gertbysea]

Yea it is hot cookie. It was 28 in my bedroom with the fan on last night . I really wanted to put the air con on but held out.

Melbourne will be nice though.

Gert

[obbie]

air con on here Gert...

[fundj&e]

i have been a bad bad girl, i booked 2 hoildays for next year and also the no odd sock thingy

[achookwoman]

Fussing up.  5 new cooking books. ( 3 Japanese ) .  Thinking of making some Bento Box meals.  Going to try and use Varoma for some dishes.

[gertbysea]

i have been a bad bad girl, i booked 2 hoildays for next year and also the no odd sock thingy

Spending the kids inheritance  uni   This  doesn't make you a bad person.

Fussing up.  5 new cooking books. ( 3 Japanese ) .  Thinking of making some Bento Box meals.  Going to try and use Varoma for some dishes.

Can't wait to see that. Didn't know you spoke Japanese chookie

Gert

[Wonder]

Cookie hopefully Melbourne weather will pick up a bit before you come, we have had some really cold days the last week.

Uni, enjoy it while you can you worked hard to get to this point.

Chookie, can't wait to see what you make from for the bento boxes.

[gertbysea]

I went to a tea2  event last evening and had NO intention of buying anything but did of course. Came away with another tea plus a jug for making  ice tea. They had a lovely goodie bag as well.

Goodie bag



One of my purchases.



Gert

[courton]

This is starting to look like a confession topic area where people start to fess up!

[maddy]

This is starting to look like a confession topic area where people start to fess up!

Yes....I think this thread needs to be deleted  LOL

[judydawn]

i have been a bad bad girl, i booked 2 hoildays for next year and also the no odd sock thingy

So where are you off to Uni and please explain the 'no odd sock thingy' - I don't know where I've been but I have no idea what that is.

Chookie - Bento box, what's that   

Gert - love your new addiction, I can't get my head around the fact you have more cuppas these days than glasses of wine    Do you have Fruitalicious amongst your collection?  I bought that one during the forumfest and I'm waiting for a heatwave to try it as iced tea.  One hot day is not enough for me to want to drink cold tea but I figure a few days in a row might do it for me. Do you have your teas hot or cold?

[achookwoman]

Judy, bento box is a Japanese lunch box. It has several small compartments and each contains a small tasty snack.   I will take a photo of one as Paul is taking me out to Japanese for lunch today. I think you would like it.

[judydawn]

Thanks Chookie, don't know what I would do with one though - I haven't used a lunch box for what seems like forever.

Good luck with today, hope all goes to plan.  Enjoy your lunch and the ride home.

[gertbysea]

I love all tea hot and cold. I do not like the fruit stuff or sweet anything but having said that  I did enjoy the Fruit infusions last night. One woman said she made cold teas for her children from the fruity things with no sugar. She then added ice cubes a and real fruit and a scant amount of mineral water or low joule lemonade . She said it got the kids drinking healthier things when they has had enough of water. As they drank the  jug she kept filling it with water so they were getting nearly water after a couple of days. Good idea.

We separated into three groups and were told to choose 10 teaspoons from a range of 10 teas and make our own iced tea. Our group chose Teriffic Toffee and  Turkish Apple and called it Toffee Apple. The other groups chose 3 different teas and made their ice tea. Ours was quite Tangy and not too sweet.  4 of  Teriffic Toffee and 6 of the other add ice, our tea won and will be featured for the rest of the month.

You can try any and every tea in the shop. Great marketing and lovely knowledgable staff. Learned that many teas can be Re brewed up to five times.


Another said she used the fruit "teas" for baking and I understand why as they bore no resemblance to the dried fruits you usually see which are sprayed with some disgusting compound to make them look more appealing.  You can buy boxes of dried lavender buds and rose buds which are great for baking of course and no added anything.  I recently bought  some dried lemongrass to use in cooking. Nice.