Our Short Dark Friend is in there somewhere. The Wellington Round the Bays race. Very cool to see so many Wellingtonians out enjoying themsevles in our city. Not a bad day for it either.

My not quite 9 year old nice as just started a blog! Am very impressed and given that I think she’s a real brainbox I thought she might take to the internet and get into blogging or running a website at a young age. It’s invite-only and I’m one of the lucky invitees. Yaaaay! Thanks for inviting me Caitlin, I look forward to reading what you’ve been up to.

Bloody Superfino does not seem to be opening up on Saturdays any more. Thought it was just a new-year-slowness-and-so-many-public-holidays-until-early-Feb thing but they were not open today. So we tried somewhere else very local, kind of a crazy hippie place in Left Bank but the cafes and satay places up there are always jam packed. Offbeat Originals. It’s got lots of 70’s orange and brown furniture and those orange glass vases and bottles everywhere and they do coffee and burgers and toasted sandwhiches and smoothies and jars of bikkies and milkshakes (which the Mister couldn’t resist, especially as someone told us a couple of years ago that they made the best). Coffee was good enough to drink the whole cup – tasted a bit Illy-like, so not a local fresh roast. Turns out it was Sublime – some Nelson-based place I’ve just discovered. Why not go Wellington? Anyway, the Mister is determined that we’ll be going back for a burger for dinner sometime. Yeah. I really like burgers.

Thinking of cooking up a vegie chili for dinner tonight. It was freezing yesterday and this morning (like summer freezing which is 17 degrees), not so bad now but the idea’s stuck so we’re going for it. We made it when SF girl (previously known as Dan) was living with us – was really nice but the cornbread didn’t cook all the way through. Might see if Moore Wilsons has little tiny loaf tins and do a couple of small loaves.

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Update: Much later, chili was good. And the cornbread in the tiny loaf tin cooked all the way through. Yum.