Island bliss

Another glorious Sunday morning up at Oneroa after Mass. Just had the most delicious muffin at Solar which I will have to try and replicate - raspberry, cream cheese and lemon. 

Went to the new library again yesterday which is lovely and spacious and a great place to while away a half an hour.  Carried on upstairs to the Community Art Gallery to look at a photographic portrait exhibition and a browse in the craft shop.

Weekend at Home

Another one of these which I was not anticipating but eventuated and turned out not too bad in retrospect.  Saturday was brilliant weather but D was not up to a trip to the island so I acquiesced and we actually had a pleasant day locally with a trip to to the library to return books and read the paper in comfort at a table.  

Drove to the supermarket to get some hoki which was on special at $10 and tried out a new recipe - baked in the oven, sprinkled with fresh thyme and topped with seasoned panko crumbs and melted butter. It was delicious and so much easier than the usual flour-egg wash-crumb routine. Polished up my lax baking skills with a batch of courgette and corn mini quiches and some fudgy chocolate muffins.  

Lunched at a Richmond Rd deli, and enjoyed a curried chicken pie, followed by a nice hot latte and a slice of pistachio loaf.

Sunday I was meeting good friend M to go first to a concert by the Auckland Youth Orchestra in the Town Hall. The solo cellist, Edward King in the Schumann cello concerto was excellent and I enjoyed the Dvorak Carnival overture before and the Sibelius Symphony no 1 afterwards.

On to Giapo's for a Christchurch hazelnut icecream before checking out the entries in a architectural competition for an apartment block at the Art Gallery.  One of the five finalists are the architects who are doing the remodelling of our Herne Bay house.  They are submitting the plans for the building consent to the Council today so it won't be long now. Their apartment block entry is imaginative and innovative and I wouldn't mind living in one of those apartments should they win.  However I am not so keen on Mt Eden as a suburb .

The house is considerably more comfortable now that we have shifted the television into our sitting room with the heat pump. It is closer to the other rooms in the house we use too.