Last weekend my sister and Richie invited Christina’s family (the Lock’s) over to her place for dinner. Richie and Jamie have been over to the Lock’s place for dinner twice now and she wanted to return the favour.

She cooked up a storm, basically, she killed it! Best home cooked dinner I’ve had in ages. So hearty, so impressed. I’m entering her into Master Chef next year whether she likes it or not!

Jasper – cat in a bag.

Naughty boy!

Entree – Potato Gnochi with Prawns.

Main – Ossobuco!

Toasties!

Dessert – Chocolate Pavlova!

Jamie’s signature dish!

Layla went straight for Mr. Lock. She loves the boys.

In Japan the Honda Jazz is called the Honda Fit. Fit because whilst it’s a tiny car it’s deceptively huge on the inside and can fit a shitload of cargo.

This morning I managed to fit a full sized (140×80) office table in the back and the Jazz just ate it up.

Mmmm table. Nom Nom Nom.

In other news, this is a huge pile of trash that has to go to the tip. It’s probably our 5th load!

Last night’s JDMST EOMM was a little different. One JDMST member offered up his family restaurant, Moltofino in Dee Why as the venue with 30% off the bill for JDMST members.

The drive was crap due to bad traffic, and losing our way despite using a GPS, but the food was awesome (I had the shoulder of lamb, one of the best lamb shanks I’ve ever eaten!).

Here are a few carpark pics. Photos by VinnieVavoom.

More photos here.

My new plates, such a plate whore!

k20a.org (almost 50,000 members!).

I admit I’m getting used to the Yellow. I still hate the steering (but hey, it’s a Jazz!) and the K20A engine is torquey. I like it.

Before.

After.

Side gate is done!

9 strong last night. Loftus night rides are well and truly back!

Last week I put up a few things on eBay and all the listings ended today. Watching the bidding frenzy during the closing minutes was a lot of fun. I’ve always had good luck buying and selling on eBay. My general rule of thumb is take pictures, many of them, and post them up big (800×600). Deal with the stupid questions as best you can, flame if you have to. Out of this lot of stuff I got $1900.50 for bothering to lost stuff, that’s going to go straight back into some more furnitire for the house.

Couch went for $947.00!!!

Old guitar went for $306.

Strida went for $425.

Basso frame went for $222.50

It’s all coming together. Yesterday the floating bench was installed in the master bathroom, we just wanted something to rest clothes on when you’re having a shower. When installing it one of the tiles cracked (bum) so that has to be fixed, but once it is fixed the ensuite will be completely finished.

It was Tony’s B’day this weekend (Christina’s Dad). A Japanese theme meant that we were in for Salmon Sashimi, Wagyu too. Even more fun was having Christina’s parents both over at my place to help clean up. Rosemary had a few boxes of kitchen goods to donate to us and Tony helped with lifting a lot of heavy stuff downstairs (the trash pile is so huge we’ll need 2 loads to the tip!).

Today we bought new bar stools.

Perfect!

A while back Suga and I visited Bimbadgen winery in the Hunter. We decided to go hard for our first wine purchase with a case of their best Signature 2006 Shiraz.

The rear side gate is finished.

Before.

After: Main side gate is on it’s way.

The other side gate is almost done too + new washing line is installed.