Australians All...

Not sure that our rejoicing was as fancy as a lot of people's.  For a start, it was a normal work day.  Then there was the fact that it was rainy and winter-ish outside... not quite Australia Day Barbie weather.  And we were starting our small celebration when you were all in bed recovering from yours.

Having said that, I did make good old meat pies for dinner, and thanks to Barb I even got to dress them up!  Her package arrived right on time, too. Thank you for the lovely surprise, Barbara, it completely made my day.

I put some of the little flags on the front door, too, just to make sure that people know an Australian lives here (I suspect most of our neighbours think I'm English).

Barb also sent me an Australia-shaped biscuit cutter (minus Tasmania).  I'm looking forward to making some biscuits.  I think I'll even make little bits for Tassie.

But back to the pies.  They were pretty good; my shortcrust pastry actually worked out for once. Of course they were generously annointed with tomato sauce.  Here's my artsy photo of them:

Hope you all had a lovely day, whatever you did or didn't do to celebrate.  And I hope you all still feel like you're living in the Lucky Country.

Cheers!