Beach, cooking at the fish market & the 'Tahs lose again....

Another action packed weekend behind us..... Friday, Lucy went out on the town with some former colleagues - a drag act in Newtown - whilst I stayed home & watched the ANZAC rugby league test (which the Aussies never looked like losing)... for the first time, Lucy managed to come home hammered & not wake me up for a chat.

Saturday, we were up relatively early and headed to Angel for breakfast....I may have mentioned this place before, but it's a lovely little place with views overlooking Freshwater Beach. Poached eggs on toast with salmon, washed down with a banana smoothie was an excellent way to start the day - and what a lovely day it was too. After breakfast, we decided to go to one of the Northern Beaches which we had not previously visited (there are 18 in total) and so headed to Bilgola. Nice little beach, complete with rockpool & almost empty. Spotted a fantastic looking house for sale & checked it out on the web....a cool $4.75mio.

In the evening we headed to Aussie Stadium to watch the Waratah's play against the Highlanders from Dunedin, NZ.....yet again they didn't fail to disappoint by losing...we left with about 10mins to go when they were down 14 points - they came back to within 1 point, but I was just pleased to beat the traffic. The highlight of the night was the accompanying highland band - complete with bagpipes & kilts....

Sunday, saw us hit Sydney Fish Market for a cookery course. Think this place would be Coyney's worst nightmare....and not sure Lushworthy would be fond of the prawns lying around! The course ran for 4 hours, 2 hours of tips (don't set yourself on fire when lighting the bbq, etc) & demonstration, 90 mins of cooking up the recipes we'd been shown & then some time to eat our creations (prawns, garfish, kingfish, squid & mussels) and drink some wine. Thought we did pretty well & certainly picked up some good tips with the food. Favourite part of the day would be preparing the squid - pulling it apart, pushing out the beak, etc. Not sure how many of the recipes we'll try at home, but certainly lots of helpful advice.

As we left the market, the rain started....and it gradually got heavier, until we were treated to a fantastic thunderstorm on Sunday evening - to be honest it hasn't really stopped raining since & it's Tuesday afternoon as I write this!

Tomorrow it's ANZAC Day - a public holiday to honour the Australians & Kiwis who have fallen in conflict....planning on heading to Martin Place for the Dawn Service (4.15am so not sure how likely that will be) & then a game or two of 2-Up (basically betting on coin tosses) in the afternoon....suspect it might be an early night!