i am now a serial muffin top offender....argh......getting older sux.....

May get together at Mead's Mosman Bay

Every so often my lil group of high school gals like to go out for a nice dinner and lots of yakking. Because it was Miss A's birthday recently and we havent had the chance to catch up yet, we thought we should celebrate in good taste...heheh ....excuse the pun :o).

We went to Meads in mosman bay (which i absent mindedly kept referring to as matilda bay and confusing everyone but myself) which has quite a reputation for being a "swanky" place. It is a gorgeous place, tucked away on the jetty/foreshore of Mosman Park suburb. For entrees we all decided to have oysters to share, there was the tradional options : au naturale, kilpatrick and some interesting combinations of mirin, soy sauce and wasabi (no thanks). But the winning favourite for our group was the pancetta, honey and red wine vinegar. Similar flavours to the traditional kilpatrick, but the hint of honey in it is YUMMY! (i could have had all 12 to myself!!)

For drinks i ordered a french martini consisting of pineapple, vodka and ??? and in the background is miss S's drink - a kamikaze

this was my mains, half a crayfish ($37.50 or whole for $65.00) with some chilli prawns. This was VERY good, the meat was so sweet and tender for the crayfish and the prawns were spicey. This was quite a small portion compared to the other options available, but i wanted to make sure i had enough room for desserts! definitely recommended!!

Miss S and her sirloin, which was a very generous serve and really yummy too. The beef was cooked to perfection and the sauce/gravy went very well together.

Miss A and her crispy skin salmon and tossed ceasar salad. The salmon was also very good, and another very large serving.

Miss C had a sirloin as well. Everyone struggled to finish their meals except for me (eating strategy). But it was all very good. The service was a little slow to start of with, we were virtually ignored for about 40 minutes, but once the ball started rolling it was defintely very good. We order dessert as well, but it got consumed before i remembered to take photos.

Yes the dessert was that good, i completely forgot to take photos.

All in all we had a great time, just catching up in general. hot topics of the night:

• my teaching stories ...eg. Yeh! Duff Man!!
• Miss C house purchase
• Miss S new beau (goodbye brandon!!)
• Miss A's new jacket very nice!!!

cant wait for the next get together....

bon apetite! clio

winter fashion rut

i confess im not very good with winter fashions. for me... mostly its about hit and miss... and most of the time i miss. i think i have a hot outfit together, but it doesnt always work out. i have no idea what im going to wear for winter this year. i dont like whatever is out there in the shops and shelves of clothing stores, and my stock of winter clothes is looking super miserable. even when i go out to look at the shops and stuff... nothing out there inspires me.. the only thing that gets my heart beat going is home wares. give me 50k and a house to redecorate and im in heaven.

i'll probably blow most of it redoing the bedroom a la "Cocoon" style. for the perth girls, you know what i'm talking about. that store is TO DIE FOR!!!

anyways back to topic... the only thing i can dress myself for is summer casual wear. i can do casual very well, or so i think so. i think the reason why im so icky about winter clothes is because i dont fit into my old winter clothes so well anymore. healthy apetitie = expanding waistline. Sigh...sigh ....sigh... back to the AB King Pro for me....

p.s....im still alive!!

btw people.... i am still alive!!...the kids havent eaten me alive (YET!!) . have lots of stories to tell...for when we meet/talk.

luv.clio

mee rebus....yum!!!!

as promised my blog is turning into a food shrine.. sorry people i cant help it?!!??! i am keeping my shopping habit to a minimum (or so i think) and so i indulge in my other favourite past time..eating!

one of my FAVOUUUURITE dishes from my FAVOUURITE hawker food place.

mee rebus, with extra green cut chillis (of course!) and more bawang goreng. even though i had this like last wk? (cant remember...) i am drooling looking at the picture. yum!!! this is from the usual Taurus hawker restaurant on collins road in willetton. definitely recommend it. but the place gets VERY VERY busy ..so be prepared to wait.

ciao.clio

nervous butterflies....

last friday was my last day at hagemeyer (subiaco), and it was a very sad occasion.

i really am going to miss my boss neil and my fellow conspirator, i mean colleague sara.

oh my lord... did we have laughs and giggles in that office.

the crap i use to get up to before sara came along... and the other crap i got into AFTER sara came along.

everyone knows i have barely used my brains in the last 2 yrs or so.

so.... starting school tomorrow (EEEP!!!) is giving me major butterflies.

in less then 12 hrs im going to be in MY classroom with MY own kids (DOUBLE EEP!!)

and i will be teaching maths!!! (TRIPLE EEEP!!!)hang on i better double check my schedule for tomorrow.

knowing me... i will be SUPER tempted to write all my horror stories on my blog.

but for professonalism sake (holy shit i am a professional?) i am going to keep the

school stories to a minimum.

because i dont want to be found out by the schools, on what i do during my off time.

and i dont want to be caught ragging ppl's kids online.

not good for the novice teacher who's just starting her career eh?

however i will tell you all the juicy gossip straight from the horses mouth. ;oP.

(maybe) hehehe

anyhoo's this is the gorgeous bunch of flowers i got from neil and sara, as a parting gift.

so its time for me to move on again....and continue with the latest misadventures/ diasaster thats clios life.

ciao.clio

food is the new blog...

i dont know if you noticed or not, there are a couple of new links to my blog. one is miss ming who finally stepped out on her own and made her own blog. yay!! good for you hun and its good to hear from you!! we all want to know what you have been up to!

the other 2 blog sites are food websites i (VERY) regularly haunt. hehehhe... yes people .... food is the new sex in my world. whats so special about these two sites? they are about street foods, you know the food you eat everyday, all within our budget and cooked authenticly (spelling?? i know im stuffed for my teaching job).

warning: dont read these blogs on an empty stomach, may induce really bad cravings....ENJOY!