As for pastry, I made my own pies and pasties, and everything from scratch.Įverything except steak, which for some reason I have never been able to cook well. Moist Anzac biscuits (think oatmeal cookie) that melted in your mouth. I could whip up a lovely sponge or a cinnamon-sugar dusted teacake in seemingly no time. With fresh, home-made gravy that was just right.
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Want roast lamb, I’d turn it out beautifully, with perfectly cooked potatoes, pumpkin and beans alongside. When I first left home I could cook almost anything and I did. We don’t see a whisker of them before 9am, nor after about 3pm.
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If there’s no other four-legged company when he arrives, he’s quite vocal about it.Īll these cats keep school hours. Lastly, two weeks ago another Burmese arrived (from a different back yard). She makes straight for the porch and the comfortable chair. He sits on the lawn, king of all he surveys.Ī couple of months ago a fluffy Burmese arrived. Then a ginger-and-white cat started coming.
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She’ll sit seemingly for hours watching the same patch of weeds. She comes into the garden to stalk the wildlife. Plus, we have a lovely, cushioned chairs for sitting in.Īt first it was only one cat. Not only that our back porch faces north-east and this time of the year it’s a beautiful, sunny spot until mid-afternoon. Oh, and did I say we’re on a weirdly-shaped block with about six houses abutting ours. Most of our neighbours have cats, but there’s less garden for the cats to be in. The owners have less land for gardens, and it’s all new growth. Often the builder puts two separate dwellings on the one block. Houses have been knocked down and new ones built. Over the last ten years our neighbourhood has changed a lot. Thank you, James, ? you do good work.) It’s the suburban equivalent of old-growth forest, and like any old-growth forest supports a rich community of creatures. Now we also have an established garden-let’s be honest, a beautiful crop of weeds-with mature trees. Lots of antihistamines.Īnyway, like I say, no cats. We all adored Mercedes, but when she was here, she used to love sleeping on Sherlyn’s bed. So sadly, the last cat we’ve had in the house was Mum’s cat, Mercedes. If she visits friends who have cats the eyes run within about ten minutes and she gets a rash, all of which persist for days after the visit. We’d love one, but Sherylyn has chronic allergic reactions to cat fur. Someone is trying to take down the New Alliance from within-and will use anything, even the lines themselves, to ensure its destruction.I have no idea how it happened, but we have suddenly become the trendy day-hangout for cats. His latest political maneuverings seem to be tilting the balance of control to Lancia’s favor-a move that not all members of the New Alliance are looking upon favorably.Īs tensions mount, Ean and his former shipmates must unite to avert a disastrous conflict: the princess working within the tumultuous Alliance, Ean seeking the help of the impatient alien ships, and Ean’s close friend and bodyguard, Radko, embarking on a mysterious and perilous mission.īut the biggest threat comes from an unexpected source.
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While the Crown Princess of Lancia seeks to share the new technology, her father, the Emperor, has other plans. Once they were thought of as tools, but since linesman Ean Lambert discovered strange new lines in an alien vessel, they have become so much more-symbols of a power too great to ignore. Mysterious yet familiar: the key to controlling every ship in the galaxy. In this captivating Linesman novel from the national bestselling author of Alliance, Ean Lambert finds himself caught in a dangerous fight for political power.