Birthday 2011

Another birthday! Doesn't time fly?
This year, I thought we'd take a little trip out to Daylesford since we haven't gone anywhere out of Melbourne in ages.
With my birthday being on a Saturday, it turned out to be a great day to go as there was a farmers' market and makers' market going on as well.

We got there in 1 hour 15 mins which was much shorter than expected. First stop was the farmers' market where we bought cookies, spicy fruit bread, mushrooms, the most beautiful veggies and a bunch of multicoloured carrots! Really nice stuff there!




Then we headed to the makers' market to admire handmade crafty stuff. I got rocky road in various flavours and a yummy bag of brownie offcuts.

We wandered around the nice little shops around town centre. There are quite a number of antique, curios and collectible shops here! I found a nice bunch of vintage fabric and I couldn't help myself.


Lunch was a nice meal at a vegetarian cafe/bakery where I also got a nice loaf of walnut bread and a cherry pastry. Yum!

All in all, it was a nice day out! Thanks to everyone who sent me birthday wishes and pressies!

Pressies from Mammo and Mathilda - first lot

Update - 6 June

Cake baked by Laura over the weekend for me! :) So nice!


Birthday lilies have exploded open today too!

Cherry picking trip 2

We went on a road trip with Charli, Johnny and Kenneth (Johnny's housemate)yesterday. This was to celebrate Charli birthday coming up next week...but also a good excuse for a road trip anyway since we haven't gone on one in quite a while :D

We headed to the Dandenongs, had lunch at a restaurant called Flippin' Pancakes at Sassafras, walked around a bit in that town and then headed to Olinda, the next town on the road. Time went past rather quickly as we had a late start - rushed to the Blue Hill berries & cherries farm next as they were supposed to be closing at 4pm.

Luckily as can be seen in pictures below, we did make it there on time and managed to get a load (1kg+) of cherries to bring home :)

The cherries were slightly small in size but still taste good nonetheless. We might miss the peak of the season in a few weeks' time so this is great just in case we don't get any more!


So many the branch was weighed down! I am holding it up here. 


Red cherries