Penguiroo and Marian at the Florida Beach Bar, Terrigal
I have Marian visiting today from Sydney before she returns to the US on Thursday. She arrived yesterday and of course we went straight into Terrigal to enjoy the sea air. We had a lime, soda and bitters at the Florida Beach Bar at the Crowne Plaza and there was a really good band playing so we weakened to an appetizer of a snack of onion rings, sweet potato and Taro – very tasty. We went to Fishbonez for a delicious barramundi, chips (oops!) and salad. The fish was sooooo fresh I think it would have been caught that morning. Marian checked to see if the match had started yet at about 7.45pm – but it hadn’t. After eating we went home and watched the Andy Murray/Novac Djokovic match which was very exciting. We ate popcorn and eventually went to bed at about 1am with the party house still raging over the road!
I lost a whole chunk there so will have to do it again!
Here’s a sunrise from a while back.
Sunrise from the Skillion
We had a great day’s bridge on Thursday for Australia Day. Ann had decorated the club and bought some Lamingtons – which are typically Australian -
Here’s a little of their history:
The humble Lamington is an Australian icon but where did it come from? Toowoomba would you believe! In the summer of 1886, Lord Lamington, Governor of Queensland took his entourage to Harlaxton House in Toowoomba to escape the steamy heat of Brisbane.
He loved, ‘Snowballs’ – round cakes served with whipped cream. The cook was requested to make a batch for afternoon tea and to cook’s horror the kitchen was not equipped with round patty tins or cream!
Cook was creative and made a big cake which she cut into oblongs, iced with chocolate icing and sprinkled with coconut.
The Governor and his guests were enthralled with the new treat.
Lady Lamington was asked what the cakes were called.
When told there they had no name, the Guests dubbed them ‘Lord Lamington Cakes’.
We live and learn! Off for a walk now dodging the rain drops! Breakfast at Bellyfish.
Aussie Ali at the Australia Day bridge
