Rainy Monday

Usually, I hate rain. Having grown up in England, the land of rain, I'd rather there not be water falling from the sky. However, rainy days out here in vineyard world means no work, which is fine by me, I love 3 day weekends! Its a pity though that we actually had to turn up for work at 7am to then be told to go back home again...

So today I've actually got time to come to the library and tap into their free wifi and do a bit of catching up with the emails that I've been neglecting so badly for the past few weeks. Working 9-10 hours a day really doesn't leave you with much free time, so its been nice having this extra day off to do some things I've not had time to do lately.

This little town seems to be having a very strange effect on me, lately I've been doing things I never thought I would... like baking! Whoever knows me will know I'm not one for the kitchen, I'd rather do the washing up and cleaning than actually cook... but times are indeed changing! The past few weeks I've had a go at making scones (my first attempt turned out better than my second - so much for improvement with practice), cookies, a date loaf. Just sweet stuff for now, but its a start! With Stacy, I've made a few proper meals from scratch such as toad in the hole, cottage pie and I think later this week we'll be making pumpkin soup. Oh how my proud my mum will be of my new found kitchen skills! I think the hostel I'm staying in is partly to blame for this, a lot of people there like to bake and cook and its slowly being transfered to the likes of me! Its always fun to see what people are cooking and of course to have a little sample every so often!

Tonight I think I might attempt my first ever loaf of bread... I'll let you know how it goes.