Pantry moths

Hubby has an on-going fight with pantry moths. Every morning I hear him cursing and opening doors and hitting the walls with a newspaper to kill them. We don't have tons of them but enough that it is annoying. He read on the web that when you buy new products you should put them in the freezer for a week or so to kill the eggs that might come with the packaging, so now we do that. There is no room in the freezer for anything else though. We also have everything else in sealed glass jars so I think we will soon be moth free.

Yesterday was very hot and today should get up to the +36°C they have forecast. It is even worse for Melbourne where it was up to +40°C yesterday and I think it will be the same or even hotter there today. It is a little bit too hot for me; I prefer a nice 25-27° with a slight breeze.

The house we sort of fell for in our house search yesterday has a pool and is also a short stroll from the beach. There are a few negative aspects though, so we are weighing up the pros and cons before maybe putting in an offer.  I'll let you know how it pans out.

Naturally we had to have our weekly oyster lunch and this time we drove up to Mount Kembla and had lunch in the only pub there which we had always wanted to try. It was a little gem. So if any of you readers come to visit we will take you there. The only thing was that the cicadas were so loud that we had to sit inside, otherwise you couldn't keep up a conversation. It was truly deafening.

Otherwise it has been a nice peaceful week brightened up by a lunch date with our daughter on Friday. We had tapas in Glebe. In this one street we could have had Japanese, Vietnamese, Mexican, vegan, French, and much more, you name it. It is incredible how the food scene has changed since I came to Australia the first time in the early eighties. I would go shopping with my mother in law in the High Street and we might lash out and have a cuppa (Australian for a cup of tea) and a sandwich.

Speaking of the eighties or more the nineties, I received this photo from my friend in Sweden who lived in Grenoble when we did. Their son and ours played together all the time and we saw lot of each other, lunches, dinners, picnics etc.  As always, when you look back, it is with a little melancholia and longing for the times gone by. Anyway here it is!

From the right, me and my father in law and mother in law and my friend M. Behind is hubby.
Stretched out on the grass is our elder daughter and then our son and our younger daughter, and
then barely visible A, my friend M's son, who now is a father of two himself. Life is wonderful!

I have to leave you now. Wishing you health and happiness.