What are you "Happy Feet"

Last weekend my husband took my two boys off camping for the night, so I could have a girls night out. I had huge fun with some great chics, Mon Komo came up with the goods again. When my boys got home on Sunday afternoon, they had with them a tiny little treasure. We will call him "Happy Feet", check out the video below to see why. He is so cute and precious, we fed him chewed up Just Right to begin with, then started Googling, to find out more. My verdict, was that it was a baby Crow, how wrong I was !
Anyhoo, armed with this conviction I called the local "Bird Man" told him I had a baby crow and he promptly told me to head off to get myself some "Ox Heart", little lady - aaaaargh.
A couple of days passed, little man was eating well and drinking from a dropper. However, as the temperature dropped with this rain, he started to cheep a lot, and seemed to be getting distressed.
We had also decided that I was possibly wrong - Never, I said ! But I did start Googling again to try and find out what this awesome little creature was. Frustrated and worried I decided to drop past the bird man and show him in person, and find out finally what type of bird this was. Are you ready??

He is a Curwail ??? So I asked, from the Quail family? We had some thoughts that it could be. When I went home to Google Curwail, I couldn't find any type of quail to that name. I now think he was just pronouncing the word "Quail" to me so I could understand - hmmmmm. So I think its a Brown something or other quail - but I am pretty sure its a quail ???

The Bird Man has our little man (at least we have called it a boy) now, and I cried my eyes out when I dropped him off. I can be such a sook ,but he was so amazingly beautiful and cute. We will be visiting him, to make sure he is ok.

Any assistance or suggestions will be most welcomed xx

Valentines Dinner

Mud Crab or not to Mud Crab ?

My amazing husband took me to our local seafood sepcialist Morgans Seafood Restaurant.
We had our "Omar" (Nanna) sit with the kids, and off we went to our romantic rondevue.  Mr fabulous already had an idea about what he wanted to order, which was, the lobster meal to share. Alas, there was no fresh lobster available, so we discussed the "Mud Crab" adventure. There are heaps of super yummy seafood treats on the menu so I would have been happy with any dish.
The decision was made, Entre - Seared Sea Scallops and Crispy Duck and Mooloolaba Spanner Crab Cakes, to share - mm mm mmmmm.
Main - we opted for the hot mud crab with spicy chilli jam & lemon and herb vinegar. Surprisingly my favourite condiment was the lemon and herb vinegar. I usually add a chilli jam to many of my meals, however I couldn't get enough of the lemon herb vinegar.

Ready and armed with the required untensil to devour this tasty morsel.

The Mud crab "ordeal" was worth it and even though we shared the 1.6 KG muddie, with the entre's, it was certainly enough food. If your going to do the mud crab journey, you just have to dive in. During our meal I was chatting away to my husband when I was using my Crusher utensil to ever so lady like, crack open a claw. Slippery little sucker! Crab juice went spirting into the air ! I caught a gentleman at the nearby table, who had been observing how articulate we were with the dinner, see this happen.  Laughing out loud, I turned back to look at my husband and right on his nose I saw a chunk of mud crab. I couldnt stop giggling and then I did the only thing you can under such circumstances I wiped it off and ate it !!. I guess I could have leaned over and licked it off his face, but that's not manners.

The damage was done, full bellies and lots of laughs, we totally enjoyed our Mud Crab experience. I highly recommend you try it too. xx

www.morganseafood.com.au

Leonard Cohen

I was listening to my itunes endless, mish mash play list yesterday. I just skipped over songs I didn't want to hear, whilst working. Up came my old friend Leonard Cohen singing, "Dance me to the end of Love". Whilst I by no means claim to be a Leonard Cohen Officialdom. I know when I like a song and, usually, I like other stuff they do to.
It's quite an intense song and I really love it, I usually replay it a couple of times when I stumble across it again.
I enjoy so much of his work, it's hard to pick other favourites and I guess it does depend on my mood. I can say I am partial to these as well:
Leonard Cohen: The Gypsy's Wife

Leonard Cohen & U2 : Tower of Song

 

As coincidence will have it, today when I am trolling through the news. I see a side story about a new album by this lovely man. So, what did I do, even though I don't have time? I dive in to check out this new work. Old Ideas is the album.

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/review-of-the-week-leonard-cohen-20120202-1qtwi.html

My favourite song off the album is : "Show me The Place", lthough I will need to listen to the album a couple more times.  It's usually the one that hits me straight off that remains my favourite.



If you haven't already made Cohen's music your friend, jump in and do it now - you will not regret it xx