After thinking they weren’t going to, we discovered that Sky had a re-run of the Oscars so we could go ahead with the planned Oscars picnic of left-overs and new things made from left-over ingredients from the birthday dinner last night. Bit of a hotch potch and all entirely made up – a great picnic.

We saw the last hour of the Oscars – it’s like it’s gone all PC or something – having little speeches made to all the nominees in the best actor and actress categories. It’s not that they don’t deserve it but have they changed the format because there’ve been bad losers? Or did they have to put something in place so that Kate Winslet got some specific acknowledgment in case she didn’t finally get an Oscar? The Mister was puffing and moaning that it was all a love fest … perhaps that was our last Oscars picnic.

Might have to start blogging about the scones more frequently. Just saw Nikau Chef and she said she was going to come to the blog to check out our efforts! Also apparently a lot of weekend Nikau diners have just stopped going out at the weekend like us. Perhaps I should invite them arond for date scones! And maybe Nikau will offer up our pinwheel variety when they re-open later in the year …