How to grow an enormous zucchini

Steps to growing an enormous zucchini:

Step 1 - go away for two weeks,

Step 2 - have a huge amount of rain while you're gone,

Step 3 - come back to find previously neat veggie garden now looks like it's been on steroids.

Look at these babies. The biggest one is 40cm long! I better look up some zucchini recipe's quick sticks...

A belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all. It felt like Christmas went for weeks this year (oops - last year), with Don's family here for a week, then meeting again for Christmas and the week afterwards. I seemed to make an astonishing number of puddings, and roast an amazing amount of pork!

It doesn't seem like Christmas unless there's some backyard cricket...

We enjoyed a week in Thredbo - a spot of bushwalking, lots of chair lift rides, water slides, bobsled rides, golf, pottering around.... Lovely!